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14 Oct 2020: Activity 2 – The Meissner Effect and BCS Theory. 2 The Meissner Effect. In 1933 it was found that not only do. superconductors show zero electrical resistance,. but they also expel any magnetic field from their. interiors below a critical field

14 Oct 2020: Activity 1 – Zooming out: nation-states and their borders Political borders separate the territory of one state from the territory of another. There are 194 nation-states in the world today, and there are more than 300 land borders between them,

14 Oct 2020: Activity 2 – Zooming in: how people cross borders This activity invites you to critically reflect on the varied experiences of border crossing encountered by people around the world today. The activity also stimulates reflection about the social

6 Oct 2020: Activity 1 - Crunching Numbers. First, let’s take a look at the figures for the ’Brexit’ Referendum of 23 June 2016. UK. voters voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union. The figures below are based on polling carried out by the polling

2 Oct 2020: Activity 2 – Understanding the symptoms and complications of Type 2. diabetes mellitus. What initial symptoms do diabetic patients report, and why? Doctors will enquire about certain symptoms when taking a patient’s medical history, to.

9 Sep 2020: Activity - First Things First. Great Expectations is Dickens’s thirteenth novel. It is also, critics have liked to think, one of. his most personal tales, haunted by remembered geographies and early traumas. What. characters inherit, and what they

2 Oct 2020: Activity 4 – How can we better manage insulin resistance in patients? Managing T2DM in patients. The clinical management of T2DM revolves around lifestyle modifications, such as having a. healthy diet and regular exercise (exercise increases

6 Oct 2020: Activity – Maps and Power. We have seen how maps help us make sense of the world. We should reflect on the. importance of deciding to map something. But we must also consider how such maps were. and are produced. What became known as the Great

6 Oct 2020: Activity – Case Study - Madagascar. Madagascar has incredibly high biodiversity, and the number of species discovered on the. island is still rising. The link below is to an article in The Guardian newspaper which describes the continued.

2 Oct 2020: Activity – The Icon The following two texts explain how the Vespa is not simply a scooter, but has become an iconic symbol of Italian design and of the particular socio-economic climate post-WWII. Please read the two texts and then move on to the