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Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...motivated by the referendum, but who will now return to their previous electoral inactivity. Of course, any party that could galvanise the missing million voters would reap the benefits at the election. But, given the results of the Opinium poll, those million are most likely to be leavers, and therefore it is the Conservative Party who would be most likely to attract...
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The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it
Society, Politics & Law

The Push - Shove Effect: what Good Friday Agreement has to do with it

...motivations. If the White House wanted to check out the consequences of an action beyond words condemning violence, it only had to consult London and Dublin. And the response from both would be roughly a match: thanks but no thanks, stay away, leave it to us. Irish American activists who argued that Northern Ireland was more than just a security issue, more than just a...
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Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...motivations, I mean, was part of my own curiosity of how to engage with this social media in a safe but really useful way, to have to harness it whilst also dealing with the ethicality of it. And so I did bring teachers and children from a wide range of ages together with educators through the Festival of Social Science into creating a social media charter. And, through...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...et al. (2017), and answer the following questions. a.What do the authors suggest are the most likely candidate dark matter particles? What reasons do they give for this? b.How do direct detection experiments work, and why are they difficult to undertake? c.What methods might enable the detection of axions? Discussion a.The two currently favoured dark matter candidates are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...motivation for doing so was outlined above. In the following sections you will see some more concrete arguments they might make, and possible defences or responses to those arguments...Week 1: Notre-Dame and the ethics of heritage preservation: 2 The debate about rebuilding Notre-Dame - Considering the massive cost of repairs for the damage to Notre-Dame (Figure 10), many...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...et al., 1995.) Molecular switches can be a lot more sophisticated than a single on/off function. A protein can be phosphorylated at multiple sites, which may have different effects on its activity. Integrate many different signals such that the signalling outcome is determined by the summation of signalling inputs. Therefore, they behave as specific signal
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...et al., 1985). All the animals had continuous, unrestricted access to forage but, as shown on Figure 3, the Svalbard reindeer ate three times as much food in August as in March. [Figure 3] Figure 3 Seasonal changes in the voluntary food intake (in grams per kg body mass per day) of Norwegian reindeer (blue) and Svalbard reindeer (red) with unrestricted access to food....
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...et insidias Arrius hinsidias, Et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum Cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias. ‘Arrius used to say hadvantages, when he meant to say advantages, and hambushes when he wanted to say ambushes. He would think that he had spoken splendidly, when he had said hambushes as loud as he could.’ Arrius spoke a variety of Latin which had lost h- at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs