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Lab, Camera, Action: Maglev Train

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Wheels are so last century. We’ve got a train set which doesn’t have any; it just floats around the track in a billowing cloud of steam. Dr Andrew Steele explains how our superconducting magnetic levitation—or maglev—train really works.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Andrew Steele
Keywords
Physics
science
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:05:27

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Lab, Camera, Action: Particle Accelerator

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Dr Andrew Steele takes a look inside the ISIS particle accelerator in Oxfordshire, where scientists use neutrons to investigate the structure of materials, and accelerator physicist Dr Suzie Sheehy explains how this massive machine works.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Andrew Steele
Suzie Sheehy
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Physics
science
particle accelerator
isis
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:04:36

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Lab, Camera, Action: Make your own CD spectrometer

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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How do we know what the stars are made of when we've never been to one? Dr Andrew Steele shows us how to make a spectrometer, a device used by scientists to analyse light, using a cereal box and a CD.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Andrew Steele
Keywords
Physics
science
astronomy
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:04:09

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Political ecology of disease

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Anthropology
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This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was delivered on 22 November 2013
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Anthropology
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Stanley Ulijaszek
Keywords
anthropology
society
disease
politics
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:52:47

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Disease transitions

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This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was presented on 13 November 2013.
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Anthropology
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Stanley Ulijaszek
Keywords
anthropology
society
disease
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:48:07

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Generational change and continuity amongst British mothers

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Angela Davis of the University of Warwick discusses the sharing of beliefs, knowledge and practice amongst British mothers between 1940 and 1990 (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 14 October 2013)

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Anthropology
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Angela Davis
Keywords
anthropology
society
Britain
motherhood
fertility
Reproduction
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:40:25

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Contextualising the 'new parenting culture'

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Charlotte Faircloth of the University of Kent presents historical and sociological perspectives on adult-child relations (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 21 October 2013)
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Anthropology
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Charlotte Faircloth
Keywords
anthropology
society
parentood
Reproduction
fertility
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:43:48

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Caring and being cared for in north-western Amazonia

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Elizabeth Rahman of the University of Oxford discusses the perinatal practices of a small group of Amazonian Indians with whom she lived (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 4 November 2013)
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Anthropology
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Elizabeth Rahman
Keywords
anthropology
society
Reproduction
fertility
Amazonia
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:36:08

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'Don't worry, you'll be a grandmother soon!'

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In this Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 18 November 2013, Robert Pralat of the University of Cambridge investigates how non-heterosexual people discuss becoming a parent with their own parents

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Anthropology
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Robert Pralat
Keywords
anthropology
society
parenthood
homosexuality
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:51:50

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'I did not know how to tell my parents, so I thought I would have to have an abortion'

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Ekaterina Hertog of the University of Oxford explores the negotiations between premaritally pregnant women and their parents in Japan (a Fertility and Reproduction seminar from 25 November 2013)
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Anthropology
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Ekaterina Hertog
Keywords
anthropology
fertility
Reproduction
society
japan
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:35:26

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