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Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed
The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.
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Genetics and law for schools and colleges
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/school-and-colleges/law
Here we cover genetics-related issues that are in the news and where the legislation has affected how they are used.
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Alumni working outside the legal profession
https://le.ac.uk/law/study/careers/graduate-profiles/outside-legal
Hear from multiple Leicester Law School graduates who have used their law degree from Leicester outside of the legal profession.
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Colourful plastics may lead to more microplastics: new study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/microplastic-colours
Study led by University of Leicester concludes that colourants in plastic can affect the rate at which it breaks down and can lead to more harmful microplastics released into the environment
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Vindolanda Week 3 – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2020/11/25/there-and-back-again-vindolanda-week-3/
The Arch-I-Scan team finishes up their third week of pottery scanning at the Roman fort and museum at Vindolanda.
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Gender History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs2231
Module code: HS2231 This module looks at the ideas and realities of gender, and gender relations, in a historical context. You’ll be examining how women and men saw themselves and each other, how they were expected to behave – and how they actually behaved.
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Gender History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs2231
Module code: HS2231 This module looks at the ideas and realities of gender, and gender relations, in a historical context. You’ll be examining how women and men saw themselves and each other, how they were expected to behave – and how they actually behaved.
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Gender History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2231
Module code: HS2231 This module looks at the ideas and realities of gender, and gender relations, in a historical context. You’ll be examining how women and men saw themselves and each other, how they were expected to behave – and how they actually behaved.
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Environmental Economics
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ec3092
Module code: EC3092 Nuclear power, carbon emissions, burning fossil fuels and deforestation are all factors that have led to rapid changes in our environment that will most likely continue to speed up the rate of climate change.
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The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 1: forgetting what we know about knowledge.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-1-forgetting-what-we-know-about-knowledge/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 One of the many poorly-framed, point-missing ‘debates’ that regularly plague contemporary education goes something like this: ‘should education be focused primarily on...