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Legacies of a British penal colony: adivasis in the Andaman Islands
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/12/08/legacies-of-a-british-penal-colony-adivasis-in-the-andaman-islands/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on December 8, 2014 It is an unexpected pleasure to be back in the Andaman Islands for the first time in almost two years.
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Ten things you can do to your module… without filling in a form
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/11/26/ten-things-you-can-do-to-your-module-without-filling-in-a-form/
Posted by in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 26, 2018 It’s late in the Autumn semester, with the curriculum change period looming, and many of you will be digging out old module forms, and working out what you need to change over the...
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Swift satellite spots its thousandth gamma-ray burst
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/swift-satellite-spots-its-thousandth-gamma-ray-burst
Leicester scientists are celebrating the discovery of the 1,000th gamma-ray burst (GRB) by the US/UK/Italian Swift spacecraft. GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe, typically associated with the collapse of a massive star and the birth of a black hole.
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Thoughts on live-streamed lessons
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2020/05/21/1346/
Posted by apatel in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 21, 2020 Thoughts on live streamed lessons An observation of a child taking part in a Year 7 Live-streamed Science class, during the Covid-19 crisis.
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Conversations with… Dr Simon Vaughan
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/08/conversations-with-dr-simon-vaughan/
Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 October 2020 Dr Simon Vaughan is an Associate Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, as well as being one of the two Academic Directors of the School, written by Emily Baldwin.
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Tuesday 18th September Sol 42
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/18/tuesday-18th-september-sol-42/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 18, 2012 We have paused to take a panorama of the landscape: Mt Sharp, crater walls and local terrain before we descend into GlenElg. This could be one of the most dramatic landscape photographs of the mission.
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Microbial genomes for schools and colleges
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/microbial-sciences/microbial-genomes/school-and-colleges
Genome is the word we use to describe all of an organism's DNA, including its chromosomes and any other pieces of DNA it may have acquired. The University of Leicester provides a range of resources for academic purposes.
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Research centres
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-centres
The School is home to three internationally-known research centres (Regional and Local History, Stanley Burton Centre and Urban History). Staff in the School are also heavily involved in two multidisciplinary research centres (American Studies and the Medieval Research Centre).
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18th January 2015 Sol 872
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2015/01/18/18th-january-2015-sol-872/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 18, 2015 Unlike Curiosity the Beagle2 lander never sent a signal back from Mars. However, as a result of some new HiRISE images we now know where it is and what happened.
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PowerPoint doesn’t kill presentations – people do
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/03/06/powerpoint-doesnt-kill-presentations-people-do/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on March 6, 2017 Bent Meier Sørensen, a Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen University wrote an impressive article in The Independent last...