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Remember to book your free slot to the WiSETI lecture! Learning doesn’t stop when the school gates shut. Have a great summer and rest up before the new academic year! admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/deta…
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#Stubborn and #persistent. What are you going to do this summer?! youtu.be/JXDUpKWnHnQ

Engineering Hero: Ursula Burns (full)

Growing up in poverty, Ursula Burns FREng, joined Xerox as an engin...

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This made me laugh! English is such a tricky language.
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Our excellent team of Upper Sixth pupils @LeysCambridge taking part in our Leavers’ Diploma programme. They’re in Felixstowe today, at Languard Point, beach cleaning. Well done, folks. #Χαιρετε!
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Last A Level session with current U6, the @LeysHistory showdown - Medievalists vs Modernists. A heroically brief partnership from Marx & Engels, sturdy batting from Thomas Fairfax and John Hampden and bowling honours to Queen Melisende & to Doge Dandolo. The modernists win it!
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Asteroids, Comets and Impacts: should we worry? Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge 19:30 Monday 7th June 2021 Contact AMA if you are interested in attending this CSAR lecture online.
Congratulations Emily! An brilliant piece of research that was developed over the whole year.
Dale House@leysdalehouse16 May 2021
Congratulations to Emily who was awarded first prize in the Peter Watson Award this week. An impressive piece of research, well presented and she answered some challenging questions with confidence. 💚
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The Library remains OPEN this afternoon for those pupils on study leave who are revising at school.
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Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics Professor Cecilia Mascolo, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Cambridge University. Contact AMA for the link to join.
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Final episode of LIT Radio for 2020/21! Kevin O’Hare CBE (@oharekevin) & David Nixon OBE (@northernballet) speak about innovattion in the ballet world. Fantastic interview by our LVI pupils! ApplePodcast: apple.co/3tAJtod Spotify: spoti.fi/2QSpXGt @LeysDance
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LeysSTEM@LeysSTEM5 May 2021
If you have heard of conservation of energy, conservation of charge and conservation of momentum BUT haven’t heard of Emmy Noether- you must watch this! She is awesome! The most significant genius: Emmy Noether youtu.be/Rqfj7n5aSwY

The most significant genius: Emmy Noether

There are a few people in the history of physics who have made insi...

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LeysSTEM@LeysSTEM4 May 2021
“Flight Status Achieved!” Our team who are sending a RaspberryPi I to space to investigate the Earth’s magnetic field structure have just been given the go ahead and will have their code running soon! Well done Team Magtrix! #astropi #STEM
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LeysSTEM@LeysSTEM22 Apr 2021
Astrophysics with Neil deGrasse Tyson. Watch this 2 minute video from an inspirational scientist. pbslearningmedia.org/resourc… #1 in the series of amazing stories in #STEM.

The Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers | Neil deGrasse Tyson | The Secret Life Of Scientists &...

In this video profile from NOVA scienceNOW: "The Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers," meet astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who was “called” to study the cosmos at the age of nine. Tyson...

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Always in constant use by our 6th form. Highly recommended!
Society for Army Historical Research@societyarmy16 Apr 2021
Shortlisted for the SAHR Templer Medal, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639-51 by Col Nick Lipscombe (Osprey): ospreypublishing.com/the-eng…
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⁦@LeysMusic⁩ Here is a great podcast on the history of the real book. Such an iconic book that every jazz musician around the world has played from and probably bootlegged! #jazz #standards #TheRealBook ⁦@LeysHistory⁩ ⁦@LeysLibrary⁩ 99percentinvisible.org/episo…

The Real Book - 99% Invisible

Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book. It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-...

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UCAS@ucas_online11 Apr 2021
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St Vincent volcano: Power cuts after another 'explosive event' - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-a…

St Vincent volcano: Power cuts after another 'explosive event'

Monitors report another "explosive event" at a volcano on the now ash-covered Caribbean island of St Vincent.

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Namibian oil and risk to the Okavango Delta: Fears over threat to one of world's most pristine wildernesses | World News | Sky News news.sky.com/story/namibian-…
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UCAS@ucas_online27 Mar 2021
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