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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....
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

...women since 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 dementia...
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...analysis of Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of St Matthew in the Contarelli chapel (Langdon Plate 19 – see the Web Gallery of Art at http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/c/caravagg/04/index.html) from his monograph, Caravaggio (1983). Hibbard identifies the figure at the rear to the left of the semi-naked executioner as the artist's self-portrait: ‘a bearded, saturnine...
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...data collected at that location during each calendar month. [Figure 2] Figure 2 The mean monthly atmospheric surface temperatures recorded at research stations based at the South Pole, Antarctica, and at a Canadian town, called Alert, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. Looking at the two lines in Figure 2, the temperatures are reasonably close in the months of January and...
Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa
Science, Maths & Technology

The ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa

...data, scientists found that Jupiter’s magnetic field lines were disturbed around Europa, suggesting Europa itself was producing a magnetic field. However, unlike Earth’s magnetic field, which is generated by a molten iron core, Europa’s magnetic field is likely to be generated in an electrically conductive layer 200 km below the moon’s surface. Using computer...
A new mission to the icy moons of Jupiter
Science, Maths & Technology

A new mission to the icy moons of Jupiter

...data from the top few millimetres of the surface. The radar sounder will be able to penetrate much deeper, several kilometres beneath the surface, which will help us determine the thickness of the ice shells and depth of the oceans. Other instruments will give us a much better idea of the composition of the surface. We’ll also learn more about how the moons are...
Modelling events in time
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling events in time

...data. The approach adopted is to develop a probability model for a practical situation and then to investigate the properties of the model. Students are expected to be familiar with basic probability, random variables and expectation and the Poisson process. Modelling events in time consists of material from M343 Book 2, Modelling events in time and space, and has six...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy

...analysis tests, and (in the worst cases!) actual sample sizes. Looking to the future, it seems that greater involvement of psychologists (and, more broadly, social scientists) may benefit the XPhi movement, both by helping to address the aforementioned methodological shortcomings, and by expanding the range of methodological tools and approaches employed. Conversely,...