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Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless

...doubles with Jennifer Dodds. One to look out for Finally, one other British born athlete to look out for is Benjamin Alexander who will become the first athlete to represent Jamaica in an Alpine skiing event. He has an interesting background as he is an engineering graduate and a globetrotting DJ. His mother is English, and his father is Jamaica but most importantly he is...
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Classical studies: it's more than the words
History & The Arts

Classical studies: it's more than the words

...double-check what Herodotus wrote compared with other writers you may ‘meet’ during your research, such as Plutarch. Start your research by looking around the Hestia project map. The Hestia project links places based on references in Herodotus’ ‘The Histories’. For more ideas about how to use the map interface, look at ‘Hestia Project map and partners’...
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Lighting the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

Lighting the Industrial Revolution

...doubled. In addition, the low illumination from the flame was reduced further by the gauze. Much effort went into improving Davy's concept, ending with the bonnet lamp, where the bonnet around the gauze protects it from damage (Figure 1). The illumination is very poor even with the modern safe lamp, and it is now only used for testing for gas - mainly in other countries,...
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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
History & The Arts

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand

...doubled its territory and increased its population from 3 to 4.5 million. The government’s aim was to unite even more Serbian territory and people with Serbia—and those people happened to live in multi-ethnic Austria-Hungary, including Bosnia, which had been annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908. Three of the young conspirators had left impoverished lives in Sarajevo for...
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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...double-checked. So, on 20th October 2008, we found ourselves on the beach to carry out a selection of "simulated drops" close to the actual impact speed on Titan, 4.6 metres per second. These tests were done in the face of a raging gale -inhospitable, but not quite as bad as Titan itself! Using the beach drops and previous results from laboratory work, an estimate of the...
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Explore Moon rocks collected from the first Moon landing
Science, Maths & Technology

Explore Moon rocks collected from the first Moon landing

...double clicking with a mouse or touchscreen; or by using the pinch–zoom on a touchscreen. You can also move around the sample by clicking on the image and dragging it. Lighting conditions - PPL, XPL and REF [PPL REF] Click on the boxes at bottom left of the screen (shown to the right) to view the samples under three different lighting conditions: 1. Plane polarised...
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Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic

...doubled.” Jacky also reflected on the discontent between those who run care homes and the residents who live in them, as well as the influence of business models in care provision. “It was a nurse that was the manager before, but you don’t need to be a nurse in a care home which I think is quite surprising. If you just have the business side of things and she ran it...
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The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...doubled from 100m in 2000 to 207m in 2014, but disparity across and within countries still remains huge. For example in the Philippines in 2013, 52% of the richest 25 to 29-year-olds completed at least four years of tertiary education, but only 1% of the poorest did. At the same time, there is much to be learned from the countries that are experimenting with different...
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