University of Leicester

Other times University of Leicester came up

1. In 2014, some students from the University of Leicester actually did the physics, and they worked out that if you were wearing a normal wingsuit, which has a wingspan of about 1.4 square meters, and if you were running at 11 meters per second, you would be able.

   No Such Thing As A Million Dots, 2018-06-08 · listen ⏱ 00:01:27

2. He dates the dinosaurs. It belonged to an ostracod, which is an early kind of crustacean, and it was found on a fossil of that, and some scientists found it and they analyzed it. One of them was Professor David Civeta of the University of Leicester, and it was on a tiny marine creature which was about one millimetre wide. I'm not sure whether that was the penis or the whole animal, but...

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3. This is Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame. This is from an article. in Oxford University Press, which is more about why elitist politicians such as Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg often drop Latin into their conversations. It's a guy called Gordon Campbell, who is a fellow in Renaissance studies at the University of Leicester. We'll get on to Samuel Johnson later. Basically what he's saying is that during the Renaissance, this became a really, really common thing all over Europe, and it's what kind of brought rich Europeans together. and quite ironically now it's the British politicians who aren't particularly keen on Europe who are often dropping Latin into conversation and it all comes from the fact that the old British universities had this kind of pro-European stance well the Renaissance was all about a revival of classical everything of classical everything that's why Renaissance it was the rebirth of that era it was kind of throwing out the Middle Ages and saying we want to go back to the classical times.

   No Such Thing As Giving Birth Up A Climbing Wall, 2019-09-06 · listen ⏱ 00:27:49