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IMPALA 2 Podcast Repository - Lectures

Ethnobotany part 3: spirituality and the arts

This audio lecture is produced by Dr Mark Reed, at School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, as part of the level 2 People and Plants course, and discusses the historic and current role of plants in human spirituality and the arts.
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Structure of the earth

This level 1 lecture (delivered early in the course) is produced by Dr Mick Frogley, at Department of Geography, University of Sussex as part of the Dynamic Earth course, and explores the evidence for the concentric-shelled structure of the Earth and (about 1/3 the way through) includes students taking part in a live demonstration of different earthquake wave types.
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Introduction to palaeoenvironmental proxies

This level three lecture (delivered very early in the course) is produced by Dr Mick Frogley, at Department of Geography, University of Sussex as part of the Palaeoenvironments and Human Impact course, and reminds students about some of the topics covered in a previous (level 2) course and introduces them to several new case studies that use different proxies to reconstruct past environments.
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