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5 Oct 2020: Activity – Controlling brown adipose tissue thermogenesis. Scientists have learned a lot about brown adipose tissue by studying mice at cold. temperatures. Read the sections called “Classical nonshivering thermogenesis” and “The mechanism of.

5 Oct 2020: Activity – Therapeutic potential of brown adipose tissue. This activity is a bit different from the rest. Now that you know about white and brown. adipose tissue, it’s time to think about how this knowledge could be applied to treat human.

5 Oct 2020: Activity – Seeking solutions from nature. One way of designing with biomimicry is to start with an engineering problem and brainstorm. creatures or systems in nature that have overcome a similar challenge, as they may provide. a solution. Let’s

5 Oct 2020: Activity – Using Nature to Inspire. Another way of designing with biomimicry is to find a fascinating process or animal in nature. and use its features to inspire a totally new design. Let’s practice with two examples! Challenge 1: You sit

5 Oct 2020: Activity – Biomimicry at work today. Biomimicry is a transdisciplinary field, which means it incorporates knowledge from biologists,. doctors, mathematicians, chemists, architects, physicists, and more. Engineering applies. science and technology

5 Oct 2020: Activity - Molecular Dynamics Simulations. How can we understand what is happening at an atomic or molecular. scale? With computers, of course! In the 1950s, researchers developed methods to study atomic. systems by representing each atom as a rigid

5 Oct 2020: Activity - Applications of Molecular Dynamics. Molecular dynamics is an important tool because it allows us to examine systems at conditions. (temperature, pressure, etc.) that may not be feasible in a hands-on experiment. This is. important for

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.

6 Oct 2020: Activity – Links between geographical knowledge and conservation science. This section assumes that you already know something about what has been described as. the current “biodiversity crisis”. If you haven’t read or heard very much about

6 Oct 2020: Activity – Taking it further. Here are few more things for you to think about if this topic has interested you, and some. more resources for you to use. Biodiversity Hotspots are important in identifying areas where conservation efforts should be.

6 Oct 2020: Activity – Maps and the Geographical Imagination Geography is sometimes described as earth description. But the political geographers Joe Painter and Alex Jeffrey have noted that geography is less about describing the earth as if seen through a

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 – Maps and Policy. Maps that show clear trends can be very useful for policy makers. It is quite common to see maps of economic and social indicators. The publication of the 2011 census, for example, was accompanied by a variety of maps (e

6 Oct 2020: Activity – Maps and Technology. Following on from our discussion of policy, let’s consider the use of technology in helping to. communicate geographical patterns to different audiences. There is no doubt that. technology has changed how we view

6 Oct 2020: Activity – Other Cartographical Traditions and Imaginations. This topic has largely (though not explicitly) considered maps that were produced in the. western world. The kinds of cartographic conventions that we have met here are not. necessarily

6 Oct 2020: Activity 1 - Time Dilation. In relativity different observers can (correctly) disagree on the time between events. Put another way; “moving clocks tick slow” - What does this mean? Take a spaceship flying to Alpha Centauri (the sun’s nearest

6 Oct 2020: Activity 2 - Length Contraction. We have seen that time intervals between events appear to be different lengths depending. upon the relative speeds of observers in different inertial frames. Special relativity gets even. stranger still. If someone

6 Oct 2020: Activity 3 - The Lorentz Transformation. Lorentz transformations are the relativistic equivalent of the classical Galilean. transformation, where, due to time dilation and length contraction, there are added. complicating effects. We earlier said

6 Oct 2020: Worked Examples. Time Dilation. Imagine we had a spaceship which could instantaneously accelerate to whatever speed we. wanted (below the speed of light). Suppose we also found a star 10 000 light years (lyr) away which we wanted to visit. We decide

14 Oct 2020: Activity 1 – Superconductivity and Quantum Materials. 1 What is Superconductivity? Superconductivity is an active area of research that falls within the larger field of solid. state physics. This fascinating phenomenon is surprisingly widespread