Thursday 6 September 2012

Olympics and Paralympics!

The Olympics and the Paralympics have captivated Britain and the world this summer. In A2 Topic 7 we learn about exercise and prosthetics. Check out some of these links to find out more about the sporting extravaganza of London 2012.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/2012/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/

History of the Paralympic movement
Biologists (working at the Sanger Institute nr Cambridge) have published the most detailed map of the human genome - looking into regions that were thought to be "junk DNA". This data is all open access to all. Pretty amazing stuff!

http://www.nature.com/news/encode-the-human-encyclopaedia-1.11312