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The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...C) 14 −63 Atmospheric pressure* 1013 mbar/1 atm 7.5 mbar/0.006 atm Atmospheric composition carbon dioxide 0.04% nitrogen 78% argon 0.9% oxygen 21% carbon dioxide 95% nitrogen 2.6% argon 1.9% oxygen 0.16% carbon monoxide 0.06% Satellites The Moon Phobos and Deimos Footnotes *The SI unit of pressure is actually the Pascal (Pa) and 1 atmosphere is 101 325 Pa. On 13 August...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...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 villain who is none other than Caravaggio himself’. Caravaggio's face looks precisely like Ottavio Leoni's portrait of him [Langdon Illustration 1]. We recognize the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...La Mort. Being a true rock legend is undoubtedly a more glamorous and rebellious career than that of an academic. However, both pursuits require creativity and the channelling of different ideas and sources. So, I will turn to my desk to write, just like Bowie sighs and sings I will sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision - Sound And Vision Transcript...
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Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) National Centre for Scientific Research, France. participant RH: So this is Jean-Pierre Gattuso. Where are you from? JPG: Villefranche-sur-Mer. RH: Jean-Pierre, what sort of a state are the oceans in as result of our CO2 emissions? JPG: The CO2 emissions trigger two major changes, that is the warming of the water because the ocean is...
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Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...C using infrared telescopes. This is so low that the ice near the surface must have comparable mechanical properties to rock near the surface of a terrestrial planet. Such ice is far too cold to behave like glacier ice on Earth, which is capable of flowing downhill under its own weight. Thus, whatever their internal structure and their mode of origin, all the icy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...c. Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 d. Bribery Act 2010 The correct answer is a. Answer The Criminal Justice Act 1993 contains legislation on insider dealing. Select the answer for Question 1b here Which of the following behaviours is considered to be insider dealing? Use inside information to deal in shares/securities. Encourage other people to use inside information to deal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...c. 1790 You have considered some reasons why firms build on flood plains and households buy homes there. Economic theory provides a way of formalising this type of analysis and, where these behaviours are seen as problematic, offers insights into possible solutions. While there are competing theories of economics, a dominant approach among policymakers is a belief that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...c.1985, mural. Metrocenter near Managua. In the late 1960s, when the civil rights movement mobilised African-Americans and Latinos in the ghettoes and barrios of cities in the United States, the country underwent a mural renaissance, from the bottom up rather than from the top down, organised within the communities themselves (Figure 17) (Cockcroft, Weber and Cockcroft,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs