An increasing number of graduates are being recruited to provide sport-science support for professional athletes, are employed by national governing bodies for sport, or are working in the ever-expanding commercial leisure sector, in particular within marketing and the promotion of sports goods and events. There is of course the option of further study and research. Or you could use your skills to teach sports in schools. … [Read more...] about University subject profile: sports science
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? viewers are left in shock as retired science teacher fails to answer ‘easy’ £4,000 chemistry question despite using a lifeline (but would YOU get it right?)
In last night's episode of the ITV quiz show, Pat Lucas, from Lincoln, who worked at North Kesteven Secondary School in North Hykeham, was asked by host Jeremy Clarkson: 'A skull and crossbones is a warning symbol that specifically indicates a material is what?' … [Read more...] about Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? viewers are left in shock as retired science teacher fails to answer ‘easy’ £4,000 chemistry question despite using a lifeline (but would YOU get it right?)
BBC must now do for arts what it has done for science, says R4 culture boss
Popular programmes presented by star physicists Brian Cox and Jim Al-Khalili, along with programmes from top mathematicians Marcus du Sautoy and Hannah Fry, have taken Radio 4 by storm, but this spring they will have to make room for an old rival. From next month the arts are to push back against a tide of equations and formulae in an effort to reclaim listeners’ attention. With a season of poems retelling Homer’s Odyssey from an immigrant viewpoint, five Reith lectures from the novelist Hilary Mantel and an arty replacement for the long-running Wednesday morning show Midweek, musicians, poets and writers are staging a comeback. … [Read more...] about BBC must now do for arts what it has done for science, says R4 culture boss
Epidemics lead to a rise in racism, conspiracy theories and civil unrest, reveals study of past outbreaks from the Black Death to the Spanish Flu
Researchers from Italy analysed 57 past epidemics — finding that the turmoil from each outbreak tended to result in a quieting of existing unrest. The findings, the team said, may explain why movements — such as the activism of Greta Thunberg (left) and Liberate Hong Kong (right) — seem weakened since COVID-19 began … [Read more...] about Epidemics lead to a rise in racism, conspiracy theories and civil unrest, reveals study of past outbreaks from the Black Death to the Spanish Flu
Meet Optimism! NASA tests drives Perseverance’s twin on Earth to help them correct software and hardware issues the rover may face on Mars
‘Really, for the first time, we’re looking for signs of life on another planet, and for the first time we’re going to collect samples that we hope will be part of the first sample return from another planet.’ … [Read more...] about Meet Optimism! NASA tests drives Perseverance’s twin on Earth to help them correct software and hardware issues the rover may face on Mars
