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• The Science of Reading to be explored in Professorial Inaugural Lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/the-science-of-reading-to-be-explored-in-professorial-inaugural-lecture

  A free public lecture hosted by the University of Leicester will provide an insight into how the brain learns to read and how reading behaviour changes with age on Thursday 16 March.

• Cabinet of Curiosities: how disability was kept in a box

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/cabinet-of-curiosities

  A unique performance that challenges the way we think about disability.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/13/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Getting the measure of Mars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/getting-the-measure-of-mars

  The research of Dr Ian Hutchinson from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has been mentioned in an article for Chemistry World which explores the potential hospitability of Mars.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 29

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/29/

  Academic Librarian.

• Karin Li

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/author/wing_li/

  Hello my name is Karin. My background is in Art Museum and Gallery Studies. I am interested in art and history. I started volunteering for the Sounds for the Future project in October 2022 and now work as a library adviser for Archives and Special Collections.

• Mexican Cookery and the Importance of Chilies – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/07/22/mexican-cookery-and-the-importance-of-chillies/

  Project PI Deborah Toner writes about Mexican cookery and the use of dried chilies therein, based on a weekend of cookery-based relaxation, following the completion of the Consuming Authenticies recipe book.

• Celebrating 25 years of Hubble

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/celebrating-25-years-of-the-hubble

  On 24 April 1990, NASA launched one of the most ambitious experiments in the history of astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope.

• Ecuadorian thoughts on religion, power and the subaltern classes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/07/10/ecuadorian-thoughts-on-religion-power-and-the-subaltern-classes/

  Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on July 10, 2016 The Iglesia de la Merced , in Quito, was built in 1737 on the remains of the original church that dated from 1538 – four years after the foundation of the city.

• Whats the difference between margin trading and gambling

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/whats-the-difference-between-margin-trading-and-gambling

  Margin trading allows an individual to borrow money from a broker in order to take much larger positions in financial assets and therefore multiply the size of their gains and losses.