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The Rosetta Stone: the first political manifesto?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/rosetta-stone
Read the article "The Rosetta Stone: the first political manifesto?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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River monster
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/spinosaurus
An extraordinary discovery by a team of palaeontologists, including Dr David Unwin, published in Nature, rewrites our understanding of how dinosaurs lived.
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Deprivation is ‘driving’ Covid-19 ethnic disparities, claims new analysis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/deprivation-driving-covid-19-ethnic-disparities
Deprivation is ‘driving’ Covid-19 disparities among minority ethnic groups and could be considered the main cause of disproportionate infection rates, hospitalisation and deaths.
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Targeted cancer treatment could provide new hope for mesothelioma patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/nero
A new clinical trial will test whether a type of targeted cancer treatment could improve survival for people with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Mesothelioma develops in the lining of the lungs or abdomen, with most cases linked to breathing in asbestos fibres.
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Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene
A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.
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Conference Report: Forced Labour, Confinement and Represssion: European, Imperial and Post-Colonial
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/02/09/conference-report-forced-labour-confinement-and-represssion-european-imperial-and-post-colonial-perspectives/
Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on February 9, 2017 Two weeks ago, a joint workshop on ‘Forced labour, confinement and repression: European, Imperial and Post-Colonial Perspectives’ was hosted by The Carceral Archipelago project and The Stanley Burton...
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Living with Environmental Change
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy7406
Module code: GY7406 Environmental change and its effects are of great concern to us all. They increasingly impact on our daily lives as well as featuring prominently in media stories about all parts of the world.
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Report suggests public participation should be at the heart of big data projects
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/report-suggests-public-participation-should-be-at-the-heart-of-big-data-projects
Public participation should be at the heart of big data projects in health care and biomedical research, according to the findings of a new report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
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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.
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Childrens experiences and responses to war in the nineteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/children2019s-experiences-and-responses-to-war-in-the-nineteenth-century
What we can learn about war from the writing of child soldiers in the nineteenth century will be explored in a BBC Radio 3 Essay on Thursday 22 March with Dr Emma Butcher from our School of Arts.