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From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...law, the church and education encouraged extensive borrowing of vocabulary e.g. French words for farmed animals pork, beef and mutton (modern French porc, bœuf and mouton) were adopted alongside native words swine, cow and sheep. [A pig feeding in the New Forest [Image: BinaryApe under CC-BY licence]] Who are you calling pork? Pig in the New Forest [Image: BinaryApe...
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...law of demand’. So economic models can be stated in words and represented in diagrams. They can also be represented by using algebra. The claim that demand depends on – or changes in response to – price can be written as: which is read as demand (D ) is a function of price (P), all other influences held constant. Both demand and price vary in this model; quantity...
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...law: z equals cap h sub zero times cap d divided by c Equation label: (1) where cap d is the galaxy distance, typically measured in units of Mpc (where 1 Mpc = 3.1 multiplication 10 super 19 km), c is the speed of light (which is about 300,000 km s-1) and cap h sub zero is a quantity known as the Hubble constant, which has a value of 67.7 km s-1 Mpc-1. A modern Hubble...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...law of planetary motion (Chapter 02). However, the terrain near the edge of the lunar disc is never well displayed, because we only ever see it obliquely, and there remains 41 per cent of the lunar surface that can never be seen from the Earth...The Moon: 2.3 Missions to the Moon - David A. Rothery Teach Yourself Planets, Chapter 6, pp. 66-75, Hodder Education, 2000,...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...laws against marketing junk food to children and young people on the telly, but those laws don't apply online. To find out more about who's feeding your kids online, head to OpenLearn, the home of free learning, from the Open University. ...Children and young people: food and food marketing: 3 Top five things junk food marketers know about children - Beware the junk food...
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...law. It would, therefore, be uncharacteristically remiss of the suits in the agencies not to take advantage of the prevailing political winds, to maximise their current and future survival and growth capital. Whether the Investigatory Powers Act, as it will become, will enhance their capability to counter threats to national security is another question entirely, one Mr...
Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...law and common sense. And, the media itself became the recurring target of scorn as enablers of the alleged election “rigging.” These claims targeted the public’s behavioral and cognitive systems. Consequently, many Americans believe that the voting “system” in America cannot be trusted – even though there is no such thing. Rather, the country’s elections...
Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...Law. When there are two major candidates and some much weaker third-party candidates, plurality voting leads to “spoiler” problems. The weak candidates can change the outcome, sometimes in ways that their supporters find highly undesirable. For instance, the presence of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader on the presidential ballot in Florida in 2000 may very well have...