Office hours are a great time to talk 1-to-1 with your tutors. It helps you. It helps them.
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What are office hours? Best ways to meet your tutor

This is more-or-less a stairwell conversation recently had about the nature of academic office hours or meet-the-tutor drop-in appointments for students at the university. “Office hours” are a simple idea. Some people call them “drop-in […]
Charles Darwin Blue Plaque on Gower Street London WC1 | ProfJoeCain
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Darwin in London

During research concerning Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin’s life at number 12 Upper Gower Street, London, I identified several errors and vagaries in biographical material found in standard reference works. This note communicates corrections and […]
Piltdown Excavation - Smith Woodward (centre) and Dawson (right) digging at Piltdown site circa 1912
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Where is the Location of Piltdown Man Excavation Site?

The infamous, fraudulent “Piltdown Man” materials (named Eoanthropus Dawnonis, or the Dawn Man) were planted in a Pleistocene gravel pit on Barkham Manor near the village of Piltdown, East Sussex. This location lies on the rolling downland south of the Ashdown Forest. Though the […]