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A final reminder about the field trip on Friday. We will be walking over uneven ground near the coast, and the forecast is for…
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Economists distinguish between the nominal value of your wages and their real value. Suppose your salary rises by three per cen…
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Sleep researchers used to treat sleep as a single, uniform state, as if the brain simply switched off for the night. We now kno…
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Correlation and causation are easy to confuse, and the confusion can lead to real errors. Suppose we notice that ice-cream sale…
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Bees are far more than producers of honey. As they move from flower to flower gathering nectar, they carry pollen with them, al…
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A word about how we will run the tutorials this term. I could stand at the front and lecture, but you already get that in the m…
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I want to flag a practical point about the group project. Each team will be marked partly on a shared component and partly on a…
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A brief housekeeping note before we begin. The reading I asked you to prepare for today has not yet been posted to the online p…
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A common misconception about scientific theories is that a theory is just a guess. In everyday speech we might say, that's only…
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There is a widespread belief that lightning never strikes the same place twice, and people use the phrase to mean that a rare m…
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The Great Wall of China is frequently said to be the only human structure visible from the Moon with the naked eye. Astronauts…
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Let me say a word about how the final grade for this module is calculated, because students often misunderstand it. The examina…
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