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Peer Review

The evaluation of scholarly work by others in the same field before publication. It is the central quality mechanism of academic publishing, it is…

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Monasticism

The practice of withdrawing from ordinary society to live under religious discipline, usually in community and usually under vows. It arose…

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The Uncertainty Principle

The result that certain pairs of physical properties cannot both have precisely defined values at the same time. It is a statement about what quantum…

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Elections

Procedures for selecting officeholders by vote. The rules by which votes are converted into outcomes are not neutral machinery: different systems…

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Trilobites

An extinct class of marine arthropods that existed for roughly 270 million years, left an exceptionally rich fossil record, and are among the most…

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Dietary Fibre

The parts of plant food that human digestive enzymes cannot break down. It supplies no energy directly and is one of the more consistently supported…

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Neurotransmitters

The chemicals nerve cells use to signal to one another across synapses. They are the point at which the nervous system becomes chemical rather than…

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Musical Instruments

Objects made or adapted to produce musical sound. They are among the oldest artefacts of human culture, and the ways they are classified reveal how…

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Fungi

A kingdom of organisms distinct from plants and animals, which digest their food externally and absorb it. They decompose most of the world's dead…

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Propaganda

Communication designed to shape opinion and behaviour in the interest of the party producing it, rather than to inform. It is defined by purpose and…

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Glass

A solid that lacks the ordered internal arrangement of a crystal, formed by cooling a liquid fast enough that its atoms cannot arrange themselves. It…

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Poetry

Language organised for its sound and rhythm as well as its meaning. It is older than prose literature, older than writing, and its formal constraints…

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Translation

Rendering meaning from one language into another. It is never a mechanical substitution of words, because languages divide the world differently, and…

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Constitutions

The fundamental rules establishing how a state is governed: which institutions exist, what powers they hold, how those powers are limited, and how…

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Antibodies

Proteins produced by the immune system that bind specifically to a target and mark it for removal. Their variety is generated at random before any…

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Mutation

A change in the sequence of an organism's DNA. Mutations are the ultimate source of all genetic variation, most have no effect, some cause disease,…

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Documentary Film

Film presenting factual material about real events and people. The form is as old as cinema itself, and the question of how far a documentary…

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Contact Tracing

Identifying the people an infected person may have exposed, so they can be tested, treated or asked to isolate before they infect others. It is a…

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Numeracy

The ability to understand and work with numbers in practical situations. It is distinct from mathematical education, it is measured internationally,…

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Ecological Succession

The sequence of changes in the species occupying a place over time after disturbance or after new ground appears. It is one of the oldest…

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