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Map Tube
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/30/map-tube/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2011 http://www.maptube.org/ A great free resource for viewing and mashing up maps. Basically maps can be overlayed to compare data visually.
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Holy Wars in Sacred Lands: Conflict and Coexistence during the Crusades
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2367
Module code: HS2367 The Crusades were undoubtedly one of the most famous episodes of religious conflict and a central phenomenon of the High Middle Ages.
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Wednesday 29th August Sol 23
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/29/wednesday-29th-august-sol-23/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 29, 2012 We have started our drive East to the Glenelg junction. We will go at about tens of metres per sol over the next few weeks.
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25 years ago Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys solved the mystery of what happened to notorious Nazi war criminal
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/25-years-ago-professor-sir-alec-jeffreys-solved-the-mystery-of-what-happened-to-notorious-nazi-war-criminal
25 years ago yesterday (18 November, 1990), the Leicester Mercury ran an article about genetic fingerprinting pioneer Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, covering his sensational breakthrough to help identify the Auschwitz 'Angel of Death'.
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Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the ageing process
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/wasp-aging-leicester-biological
Scientists at the University of Leicester have discovered that jewel wasps can slow down their biological rate of ageing
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Scientists investigating the causes of dementia have found key similarities between different diseases, paving the way for effective new diagnostics and treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/alzheimers
Experts looking into conditions including Alzheimers, Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies have found there are similar processes and biomarkers that link them
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Rap music
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/rap-music/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Rapsats statistics on rap music A tool to plot the frequency of words appearing in rap lyrics from 1988 through to the present day see more on contributors .
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Leicester space scientists celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/jwst-launch
Amongst other things, it will be able to see the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, along with studying planet formation around distant stars.
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Tuesday 20th Nov. Sol 104
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/20/tuesday-20th-nov-sol-104/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 20, 2012 We have moved from Rocknest where our analyses of soil, rocks and atmosphere are complete. We have a lot of data to examine.
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Protecting children from war and violence
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/protecting-children
In any society subjected to war or violence, children are the innocent victims. Even if they are not injured themselves, the experience is understandably traumatic.