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Could human beings one day live on Mars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/could-human-beings-one-day-live-on-mars
The Mars One Mission hopes to create a human settlement on Mars by the year 2025 allowing people to live on the Red Planet, albeit in an enclosed environment.
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Expert opinions cover Gibraltar in the EU debate and Mary Berrys Bakewell tart recipe and online archiving
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/expert-opinions-cover-mary-berrys-bakewell-tart-recipe-and-online-archiving
Dr Simon Dixon from the Special Collections has written an article for Think: Leicester about the closure of BBC Food and how much of its content can still be accessed through web archives - including the recipe for Mary Berry's Bakewell tart.
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Biological Sciences (Physiology with Pharmacology) BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/biological-sciences-physiology-with-pharmacology-bsc/2026
The relationship between the subcellular realm and the whole organism is a delicate and fragile one. Tiny changes can have huge effects on body systems, but can be tackled or prevented with correctly targeted drugs.
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Charity shop find is former student’s long-lost compass from University of Leicester days
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/charity-shop-find-alumnus-long-lost-compass
Staff at University of Leicester help to reunite an alumnus with a lost treasure after volunteers at Martock Charity Shop in Somerset discovered a compass with a 60-year old note
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Dr Celia May's projects
https://le.ac.uk/ggb/study/research-degrees/phd-projects/may
Browse the PhD projects offered for supervision by Dr Celia May in the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester.
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What is the value of fashion?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/what-is-the-value-of-fashion/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 Vogue has a history of the origins of London Fashion Week What is the value of fashion ? In 2018 British Fashion Council released some data about London Fashion Week including that there...
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Under reporting of missing and murdered indigenous women (Canada and US)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/02/under-reporting-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-canada-and-us/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 The MMIW Database logs cases of missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and two spirit people in Canada and the United States, from 1900 to the present.
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WTO Tariff & Trade Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/04/11/wto-tariff-trade-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2025 Recently launched, the WTO Tariff & Trade Data is an online platform providing enhanced access to official tariff and trade figures for over 150 economies.
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European Union Open Data Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/european-union-open-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 The EU Open Data Portal provides access to a range of data from EU institutions including Eurostat, the Joint Research Centre and the European Environment Agency.
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IMF gender equality data tool
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/imf-gender-equality-data-tool/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 IMF has conducted the first-ever global review of policymakers’ use of tax and spending policies to promote gender equality and has released an online database toolkit of gender...