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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
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...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...analysis required to identify these, was beyond the scope of existing resources of the company either in people or in funds. Conclusion The changed texture of the environment was not recognised by an able but traditional management until it was too late. They failed entirely to appreciate that a number of outside events were becoming connected with each other in a way...
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How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...analysis at an international conference and then as a book chapter (Fox et al., 2019). They showed how they could apply frameworks for thinking about Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), originally written for Higher Education settings paper (Warwick, 2016; Winter et al., 2015), to a wide range of their own school-age settings. The consensus was: EfS needs to...
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