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Astronomy with an online telescope Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...data for stars up to about magnitude 10. The COAST image contains many far fainter stars, indicating that COAST’s sensitivity goes well beyond magnitude 10. You may also have noticed that the colours of the stars are clearer in the COAST image. You have now reached the limits of what can be done in Stellarium in terms of measuring fainter stars. In the second half of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?
Nature & Environment

Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?

...data on croplands and their productivity using year 2000 as the reference point and comparing it with urban area projections for 2030, international researchers found that 30 million hectares of crop lands will be lost to growing cities – an area equivalent to the Philippines. Of this, Asia and Africa will lose 24 million hectares of prime agricultural land. With cities...
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Article 5 mins
How are Ethiopian coffee growers responding to climate change?
Science, Maths & Technology

How are Ethiopian coffee growers responding to climate change?

...data collected on the ground, including historic observations, overlaid on climate maps,” explains Moat. They projected this niche into the future using climate models and scenarios, which revealed that all the models were in general agreement. They then combined this with satellite imagery to come up with the present-day forest coffee area, and the area projected in...
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Article 5 mins
Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...data, and collections of such things are called ‘statistics’ plural. So statistics (plural) are part of the concern of statistics (singular). According to Stephen Senn, again, the science of statistics ‘has much more in common with philosophy than it does with accounting.’ [A pie chart made from a pie] A pie chart made from a pie. [Image by net_efekt under...
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Article 5 mins
Download your language survey kit
History & The Arts

Download your language survey kit

...does not allow you to sort or compare people’s choice of words. We suggest you use a different column for each speaker, and perhaps consider grouping your speakers according to age or gender or any other variable that you think may be particularly significant. This should make it much easier for you to classify and interpret your data. Download the 'Words' sheet (199KB)...
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Activity 5 mins
Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin

...data on the flora and fauna as well as geology of the destinations we visited. Fossils of extinct creatures and shipments of insects and birds were shipped back to Cambridge for identification. My exploration of the Galapagos was truly remarkable! You can read all about these adventures in my journal - The Voyage of the Beagle – it won’t be wasted time, I assure you....
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Article 5 mins
How our brain changes as we grow old: the Blood Brain Barrier breakdown
Science, Maths & Technology

How our brain changes as we grow old: the Blood Brain Barrier breakdown

...most of the data available was obtained studying men. In conclusion, researching the dysfunction of the BBB during ageing in females is an essential step to understand the mechanisms underlying several age-related conditions. It also will help us to find new treatments against some of the most important neurological pathologies. More on the brain and Alzheimer's disease...
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Article 10 mins
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...analysis, advanced techniques in internet searches for primary and secondary sources, and how to evaluate and identify the most suitable literature on the topic...This free course, Teaching the First World War, is designed for history teachers and their pupils. It provides a wide range of visual, textual and oral sources to enrich the teaching of the First World War. It...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs