Victoria Austin
I have a variety of interests and hobbies including reading, photography, writing and design. Creative that's me, and I enjoy learning!
Location UK
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Victoria Austin replied to Daniel Burnett
Just answered this in my reply above! :)
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Victoria Austin replied to Ineke Fioole
I think they were referring back to what they'd said just before- the orbit of The Moon wasn't as they thought it was predicted to be, since tech/knowledge has advanced from Newton's time.
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Victoria Austin replied to Daniel Burnett
It takes around 10 goes of moving them around to see if you've got the order right then you can work back from there if you want to try it again! :)
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Victoria Austin replied to Mary R
@DanielBurnett It really is!
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Victoria Austin replied to Lesley Evans
@LesleyEvans It actually does, since it rounds to 5.0 they have an orbital resonance of 1:5 - in the time it takes Iapetus to make one orbit, Titan makes 5!
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@LindaGilbert I just Googled Labradorite, that's a very pretty mineral. If you haven't got there already, you might enjoy looking at the close-up of plagioclase feldspars later this week through the virtual microscope!
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Victoria Austin replied to Victoria Austin
Thanks. The course will still be available on the OU's free learning platform OpenLearn https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/moons-our-solar-system/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab which you can access any time, but it doesn't have the community/course team on there. It has been 10 years though, so we've had a good run on...
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Not a stupid question at all! Mass is how much there is of something whereas weight changes depending on the gravity... so it's the lack of gravity on The Moon that makes the weight 1/6 of on Earth, I hope that's helped explain it! :)
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Victoria Austin replied to Lesley Evans
Give it a try, see what you come up with? The orbital period for both of these moons can be found in the data table in the previous step. :)
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I saw that last night too about the crystal healing. It really is fascinating the similarities and differences in The Moon/Earth rocks.
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Victoria Austin replied to Victoria Austin
@InekeFioole Thanks, unfortunately this year is actually the last run of this course on here, but if you have Facebook you'll be able to keep up to date with moons news on the Facebook group. Thanks @YvonneWilliams
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This is something that's coming up in week 6- how resources found on The Moon might be used.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I listen to a lot of country music and I'll often hear mentions of The Moon in songs (I've just started listening to Can't Fight The Moonlight by LeAnn Rimes on Spotify as I type this!) As a creative myself, the Moon has inspired some of my own work too, like the flower I drew where the centre of it is The Moon. I'm even in the process of writing a novel set...
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Victoria Austin replied to Linda Gilbert
It looks like you've figured it out now but yes, it gives you as many attempts as there are moons before it asks, so you have a chance to switch them around before you see how many you've got right, like Ineke said, it'll give you a pop up at that point to check. :)
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Anorthite is a gemstone. This just got me wondering about a piece we've got in our display cabinet actually, I just went down to check but no it's Pyrite we've got, not Anorthite.
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Victoria Austin replied to Victoria Austin
Enjoy the course! :)
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Victoria Austin replied to Mark Vernon
Give it another try? It seems to be working okay for me right now.
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Endogenous substances are naturally occurring and produced inside organisms, whereas exogenous substances come from the external environment.
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Victoria Austin replied to Linda Gilbert
@LindaGilbert I'm glad it worked! I've just read Hera has been scheduled for October of this year, to measure the impact of NASA's DART mission from 2022.
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Thanks for pointing this out, will pass a message on to get it fixed.
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Victoria Austin replied to Linda Gilbert
@LindaGilbert With regards to your earlier comment, paying for the course won't make a difference to an independent link.
It's working okay for me here - it's weird it's not in Scotland or Wales.
Tagging @YvonneWilliams in this reply too-
There's a video within the page, which I've been able to copy the link to - will this work for you?...
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@IsaacNumoah Triton has a mean orbital distance of approximately 354,800km from Neptune.
Just to clarify, we're not comparing other smaller moons of Neptune here, but other retrograde moons in general that are generally smaller with a greater distance.
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Victoria Austin replied to Mary R
Yes this. Perhaps it might be like Earth in that sense, small microbes could be out in space that may *one day* turn into more evolved creatures. Just because we are here now, it didn't happen overnight for Earth, for creatures to move from water to land, so it could be the same elsewhere.
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Victoria Austin replied to Ineke Fioole
The central peak develops at around 32 seconds into the animation. The rarefaction wave is basically a follow-on from the first shockwave- a secondary wave. The central peak then rises up which is shown in the orange layer. It really is the sheer pressure from an impact that makes it rebound back up in this way. Hope that helps explain it!
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Victoria Austin replied to Mark Vernon
It is, it looks like a scientist called Alex N. Halliday came up with the name in a peer-reviewed scientific journal and it stuck. The journal of which is here if you'd like to read it- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X99003179?via%3Dihub
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Victoria Austin replied to Linda Gilbert
You're not the only ones, I used to think it had something to do with the season too before I learnt otherwise. The next step covers more on this...
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You might find the link Ben C's posted in the comment below helpful if you've not already seen it.
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Victoria Austin replied to Ineke Fioole
Yes they are, many of the asteroids in our solar system are found orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt there.
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Yes, it is thought that it was.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
As Julian's already said, we're experiencing some technical difficulties with the images right now. I'm going to try direct-linking to some of the images from where they are available on OpenLearn, please let us know if you have any trouble viewing these.
*Edited to remove the links now the proper images are back working*
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Victoria Austin replied to Barbara Johnson
@BarbaraJohnson Welcome back Barbara. :)
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Welcome to the course everyone! My name's Victoria and I'm one of the course mentors on here. Enjoy the next 8 weeks as you delve into learning more about our solar system and the moons that inhabit it. If there's anything you aren't sure about or have any questions throughout the course, do feel free to leave comments in the steps and we'll do our best to...
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Victoria Austin made a comment
For something to be a crime, I think it has to show harm to a person, their property or society as a whole. I think certain actions are considered criminal because of how they affect people in society.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Pete starts off engaging in criminal behaviour by being very anti-social towards his neighbours, his behaviour is dangerous as he rides on the pavements and sets fires. Criminal damage for the bin? (I'd think it could also come under tort of nuisance since he sets a fire that reaches the grounds of a property which is on the civil side but still bad). Then...
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I've been a nature and wildlife photographer for 12 years, but I've mainly used the automatic setting when taking photographs. It'll be good to learn about aperture etc.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I didn't expect to find my actual town on there but it is! And the general area - there were mostly French migrants here then. I'm not seeing many women at all (2 out of 50 in results for Devon as a whole).
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Victoria Austin made a comment
If she convinced them of her story, whether true or not, it must have made them want to help her.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I feel like I would stay, I wouldn't want to risk being so cut off from everyone and everything.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I have memories of visiting the York Dungeons as a kid, I remember being fascinated by what people's lives might have been like back then, what they ate etc. The actors were so good though I genuinely came home convinced I was going to get the plague ha! I was only 9 or 10.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Hi, I'm Victoria and I'm from Devon. I've visited York a couple of times over the years and have always enjoyed going to museums and learning about things.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I'm going to be losing access in the next 3 days so I may as well leave this comment here now. I'm glad to see people have enjoyed the course. It's been a great 8 weeks everyone. See you over on Facebook! :)
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Victoria Austin replied to Robert Mawson
Just clicked onto it, there's a person working on something on there right now!
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Victoria Austin replied to John Lateano
The potential for life in this sense means the chance of finding life on there already, like non-Earth organisms etc.
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Victoria Austin replied to Nira Ramachandran
If you do end up going back on there at all, check out the list on the how to play screen, it'll give you a hint of what to look out for with the numbers on the cards, for example if the card you have has a percentage higher than 0 for potential for life and you click that, chances are you'll win that round.
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Yes, it's similar to Earth in that way, like us it has geological processes (erosion for example) that affects the surface too.
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Making rocket fuel actually comes up later this week...
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Victoria Austin replied to Ineke Fioole
Yes, our Moon is much, much larger, the radius is 1737.4km whereas Phobos has a radius of only 11.267km. It would take around 157 Phobos moons to make up the size of our Moon!
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It looks like it might be from the direction it's moving in.
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Their mineral composition can help to determine their origin, ie if they are from The Moon.
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Victoria Austin replied to Nira Ramachandran
I've never been able to see the moons either, even when I zoomed in on Jupiter with my camera and I got a split second close up of it while it was trying to focus, I may have been pointing my camera too much at Jupiter itself in that moment though.
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It's definitely easier to get to.
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Victoria Austin replied to Allan Haines
@InekeFioole Well done!!
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Victoria Austin replied to Penny Bateman
@NiraRamachandran After so many attempts (around 10?) it'll ask if you want help then a tick or a cross will appear against ones you've got right or wrong.
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Victoria Austin replied to Geoff Burt
@GeoffBurt I watched the video about Starry Night, that was brilliant! Haha, the comment about Pluto at the end.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I listen to country music a lot and so many great songs have a mention of The Moon in them. As an artist and a writer I find the world around us, nature, the sky and of course our very own Moon are all so full of inspiration for creativity.
The other day I painted a watercolour flower, the centre of the flower was The Moon and the petals were a sunset sky...
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Victoria Austin replied to Penny Bateman
Give it another try? It seems to be working okay here now. Or try using a different web browser if you can if it's still not working?
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Glad you're enjoying the course! The video is replay-able here: https://live.kmi.open.ac.uk/webcast/c5517G465
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Just to jump in as well here. If you remember from the step before the quiz- for moons that are non-spherical, it's the length of their longest axis you're looking for in your answer. So as Prometheus is 136km×79km×59km, 136 is the longest for the answer. But yes, you have also got Prometheus' radius there! The same "longest length" would of course apply to...
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There is potential for there to be life on Titan, a small potential and whether it's life as we know it (or maybe different) but still, there might be something. A small microbe perhaps that doesn't mind the methane?
There's always going to be intrigue about what's out there, whether we're the only planet in the universe occupied by humans? Who knows. The...
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Victoria Austin replied to Helen B
One of mine from way back was Enceladus - enchiladas!
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Victoria Austin replied to Geoff Burt
I was just about to post about The Moon, Jupiter and Venus... Currently waiting for The Moon to be high enough in the sky here. It should be a great photo opportunity!
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Victoria Austin replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
You've obviously got very strong opinions on this but like the professor has said, this isn't the place. Not only has this conversation veered entirely off topic from the subject of moons in our solar system but more than that, we want everyone to feel welcome here. A curiosity for learning is what brings us together... so these comments are inappropriate.
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Victoria Austin replied to Ineke Fioole
Coming back to it fresh another day definitely might help, it's a lot of information to take in, in one go!
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Victoria Austin replied to Gilbert Davis
Exactly this. Time and distance feels almost incomprehensible when thinking of it in "space" terms, the sheer vastness.
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Victoria Austin replied to John Lateano
Known moons in our solar system are rocky or icy, they aren't big enough to be gassy.
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Been there, I used to get them mixed up.
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Victoria Austin replied to Ineke Fioole
I think it might be to differentiate between Earth and other objects. For example, there is another term (not mentioned here) "perihelion" which relates to the point in a path that is nearest the Sun.
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That's great to hear it's helped your understanding. :)
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Victoria Austin replied to Tanya Day
Liking the breadcrumb analogy too.
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Victoria Austin replied to Victoria Austin
That's okay, & thanks Tanja.
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Victoria Austin replied to Fleur Deacon
Welcome to the course, this'll be great prep for your further studies. Good luck! :)
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Hi, welcome to the course everyone. My name is Victoria, I'm one of the Mentors on here - returning after a few years break, it's great to be back. Enjoy the next 8 weeks!
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Victoria Austin made a comment
An unjust law is still a law, the previous section didn't change my mind from the last poll. It did make me think about how words are used though with the contrapositives!
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Victoria Austin made a comment
A law is still a law whether someone thinks it is right or not. Whether an unjust law *should* be a law, well that is a different question.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I self-studied an A Level in law from books during 2020/21 so I thought this course might further add to my knowledge.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
It seemed like he was trying to antagonise the suspect rather than get relevant information. He went from adaptive dominant to maladaptive very quickly which made Neale maladaptive too.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Adaptive, dominant, co-operation would be needed from the interviewer, Neale could start leaning towards the hostile, maladaptive side after arrest.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Obviously the patio doors need to be asked about, also I'd like to know what lead him to believe it might have been a crime and not an accident so easily (from his reaction at the time). And yes definitely ask him more about the relationship with his father.
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Victoria Austin replied to Junia Biara
Yes! It seemed like he contradicted himself at that point.
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He gave a lot of detail, when asked he was right there with an answer but a few of the things he said did seem a bit suspicious to me.
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I thought 4 were telling the truth, I got 2 liars and 2 people that were telling the truth correct.
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I enjoyed the task - got 50% right, hoped it might be higher! I was focusing on visual clues like expressions and directness of an answer.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Neale appeared to be trying to share as much information as possible in a chronological order, DS Sund did interrupt him at one point - keys could have been left until after that flow of conversation? She was giving him time to speak though in a calm atmosphere, telling him he could have a break etc. from the start. Neale did seem credible but there was one or...
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Hi, I did the previous Forensic Psychology course some years ago. I'm from Devon in the UK. One of my favourite detectives is Karen Pirie from Val McDermid's crime fiction series, she's a bit like Sara Lund with her passion for the job and dislike for the politics around it! I enjoy watching crime dramas generally though like CSI & Rizzoli & Isles.
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It might influence them by changing direction from where they would normally go, in order to avoid the wind farms location.
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I don't see as many sparrows as I used to here (in Devon), prevalence of insects is definitely a factor just as much for the hedgehogs as well (which I picked for this study) - tracking numbers of both could show in certain areas (like if there's more in one area) what that areas doing differently that may be transferrable to other areas.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I'm going to pick hedgehogs for this one, tracking the abundance would give indications to how well they are doing in any particular area, they are reliant on access to gardens and insects being available for them to eat. Pesticides and a loss of habitat is a real problem for them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog
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Victoria Austin made a comment
We have a community of birds who visit our garden - wood pigeons and blackbirds are the most common visitors. I always enjoy seeing them out there, wood pigeons in particular can be so inquisitive when you're working on something in the garden.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I read a book on insects recently that discussed just how much nature does for us as humans. I am all for the moral argument (conserving nature really is the right thing to do!) but of course the economic one is beneficial too.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Hi, I'm Victoria from Devon in the UK. I've had an interest in nature from a young age so when I discovered this course I thought I'd join.
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The second one seems more 'correct' to me than the first, I'd want to change 'no' to 'any.'
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Hi! I just came across this course and thought it would be interesting to learn more about the subject.
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A torch!
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I think the key piece of evidence is the blood on the hand rail (is there blood on his hand?) could it have been from the suspect? Also footprints - victims or suspects, I think the victims shoes should be used to eliminate his footprints from any possible suspect. He looks too far from the water to have washed up. Other evidence - personal items on the victim...
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Hi, my name is Victoria. I've done a few forensic style courses before and this one sounded like another great one to study. I'm also self-studying law, psychology and sociology A Levels at the moment.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Thanks for such an interesting course, I started it last night and completed it already because I got so stuck into it! It's been great to learn about the anatomy of a skull and how facial reconstructions work.
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I think seeing them front on rather than from a side angle would have made them easier to identify.
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Victoria Austin made a comment
I thought I was doing pretty well then I came unstuck a bit! It was great to try out what we've learnt though.
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I've watched a lot of crime dramas over the years CSI (Vegas) is one of my favourite TV shows so in answer to the question, definitely yes!
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Victoria Austin made a comment
Hi, I've had an interest in forensics for a long time so I thought this course would be interesting to study.
