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How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway – and what they could teach us
Science, Maths & Technology

How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway – and what they could teach us

...System, preserving the composition of this original material. In contrast, processed samples have been altered by heat. They are from larger bodies and contain information about planetary surfaces and interiors. [Meteorite piece weighing about 4g] Meteorite piece weighing about 4g The stones that fell over Winchcombe are from the former group – and not only that, they...
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How juror bias can be tackled to ensure fairer trials
Society, Politics & Law

How juror bias can be tackled to ensure fairer trials

...system fails to rehabilitate, deter or incarcerate guilty individuals). Part of the fascination of juror decision-making relates to human fallibility, and the prejudices and biases that can have an impact on a verdict. Films such as 1957’s Twelve Angry Men – where one man systematically dismantles the biases and assumptions of his fellow jurors – dramatically...
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Planetary Protection of Icy Worlds
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Icy Worlds

...System. But how can we strike a balance between exploring these new worlds and ensuring they remain unspoilt?...In the late 1970s, NASA’s Voyager mission provided the first tantalising clues that Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, might have an ocean beneath its thick icy shell. Since then, missions such as NASA’s Galileo and Cassini-Huygens spacecraft have provided...
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Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...think that their relationship with their doctor or teacher is nothing more than a commercial transaction. This is partly an issue of terminology and becomes less problematic if we recognise that many aspects of marketing are useful and appropriate in not-for-profit contexts. In the not-for-profit context we might consider the example of a doctor in the UK National Health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...think about topic areas. You could choose a topic: in which you are interested; around which there is current debate; where there are proposals for reform or where there has been recent reform; where the law in one jurisdiction has taken a different approach to the law in other jurisdictions; where a significant precedent has just be set or where there are significant...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Can dogs read their owners' emotions?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can dogs read their owners' emotions?

...thinking? Can your dog empathise? It's possible, suggests new research...Can dogs tell when we are happy, sad or angry? As a dog owner, I feel confident not only that I can tell what kind of emotional state my pets are in, but also that they respond to my emotions. Yet as a hard-headed scientist, I try to take a more rational and pragmatic view. These personal...
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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...think in scales of global economic tides and social values, but the individual, workplace, family or locality is easier to apprehend and to alter. A political aspect of open methodologies is that they approach methods not in terms of grand narratives, but as practices through which worlds are enacted. This is a reaction to, and qualified rejection of, that research which...
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War Memorials
History & The Arts

War Memorials

...systems: witness the frequent references to God, nation, king, and empire on First World War memorials. They also illustrate altering (and persisting) artistic tastes: compare the Islington memorial – which is an example of art nouveau – with the Poplar one, which reaches back into the nineteenth century in its determinedly Victorian Gothic symbolism. Many British war...
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