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1) Millions of pounds from the Queen’s private estate has been invested in a Cayman Islands fund – and some of her money went to a retailer accused of exploiting poor families.
2) Prince Charles’s estate made a big profit on a stake in his friend’s offshore firm.
3) Extensive offshore dealings by Donald Trump’s cabinet members, advisers and donors, including substantial payments from a firm co-owned by Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law to the shipping group of the US commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross.
4) Twitter and Facebook received hundreds of millions of dollars in investments that can be traced back to Russian state financial institutions.
5) The tax-avoiding Cayman Islands trust managed by the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s chief moneyman.
6) The Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton avoided taxes on a £17m jet using an Isle of Man scheme.
7) A previously unknown $450m offshore trust that has sheltered the wealth of Lord Ashcroft.
8) Oxford and Cambridge and top US universities invested offshore, with some of the money going into fossil fuel industries.
9) The man managing Angola’s sovereign wealth fund invested it in projects he stood to profit from.
10) Apple secretly moved parts of its empire to Jersey after a row over its tax affairs.
11) How the sportswear giant Nike stays one step ahead of the taxman.
12) The billions in tax refunds by the Isle of Man and Malta to the owners of private jets and luxury yachts.
13) Offshore cash helped fund Steve Bannon’s attacks on Hillary Clinton.
14) The secret loan and alliance used by the London-listed multinational Glencore in its efforts to secure lucrative mining rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
15) The complex offshore webs used by two Russian billionaires to buy stakes in Arsenal and Everton football clubs.
16) Stars of the BBC hit sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys used a web of offshore companies to avoid tax.
17) British celebrities including Gary Lineker used an arrangement that let them avoid tax when selling homes in Barbados.
18) Prominent Brexit campaigners have put money offshore.
19) An ex-minister who defended tax avoidance has a Bahamas trust fund.
20) The Dukes of Westminster pumped millions into secretive offshore firms.
21) A tax haven lobby group boasted of ‘superb penetration’ at the top of the UK government before a G8 summit that was expected to bring in greater offshore transparency.
22) The law firm at the centre of the Paradise Papers leak was criticised for 'persistent failures’ on terrorist financing and money laundering rules.
23) Seven Republican super-donors keep money in tax havens.
24) A top Democratic donor built up a vast $8bn private wealth fund in Bermuda.
25) The schemes used to avoid tax on UK property deals.
26) The celebrities, from Harvey Weinstein to Shakira, with offshore interests.
27) How a private equity firm tried to extract £890m from a struggling care home operator by making it take out a costly loan.
28) Trump’s close ally Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner, is the longtime owner of an offshore firm.
29) One of the world’s biggest touts used an offshore firm to avoid tax on profits from reselling Adele and Ed Sheeran tickets.
Below is a list of freely available online biology lab resources, including microscopy, genetics and life science.
General biology and virtual labs
The Interactive Library – This EdInformatics.com site is a list of links to interactive biology sites. Some Java applets are standalone and some come with lesson plans and notes
Johnson Explorations – Online explorations from The McGraw-Hill Companies. Interactive simulations for high school biology classes. Alternate links: 1, 2
TryScience.com – Variety of online experiments
The Biology Place: Classic Edition – A free website appropriate for regular and advanced biology. The LabBench corresponds to the AP Biology Labs
ExploreLearning: Gizmos – Online simulations
Wisc-Online Learning Objects
Biology: Virtual Labs – Appropriate for AP Biology and beyond
Virtual Labs – Appropriate for AP Biology and beyond
Virtual Labs – From HHMI’s BioInteractive
Anatomy, physiology and dissection
See the list of Anatomy Labs
Microscopy, cells and microbiology
UD Virtual Compound Microscope – A virtual microscope
The Virtual Microscope
Virtual Scanning Electron Microscopy – Interactive Java tutorials
Protista Tutorials – Microscope views of organisms. Also shows rotifers
A Virtual Pond Dip
JayDoc HistoWeb – From the University of Kansas Medical Center. A histology atlas that corresponds with the laboratory exercises of the Cell & Tissue Biology course
Genetics and DNA
Genetics Web Lab Directory – Wide variety of genetics simulations and problems. Some are appropriate for middle school genetics; most are appropriate for high school genetics
Genetics – Some K-12 online labs
Virtual Peppered Moths
DNA Restriction Digest and Gel Electrophoresis: A Virtual Lab
DNA Extraction Virtual Lab
The GEEE! in GENOME
Learn.Genetics - Genetic Science Learning Center
Engineer a Crop – PBS interactive site where students can compare traditional and transgenic methods of selective breeding
Health, medical treatment and blood types
Interactive Health Tutorials – From U.S. National Library of Medicine
Medical Mysteries – Solve medical mysteries while learning about diseases and their causes
Blood Typing – Interactive game where you can learn about blood types and also determine what type an accident victim needs for a transfusion
Population biology and dynamics
Population Biology Simulations – From the University of Connecticut. A few population genetics and population ecology simulations written in Java
Population Growth and Balance
Population Dynamics – From MathCS.org
Animal behavior, evolution and life science
The Animal Behavior Project – At the University of Arizona
Life Science – Interactive lessons from learningscience.com
Shedd Educational Adventures – Marine life resources from the Shed Aquarium
Paleo Pursuit – A game from The Virtual Museum of Canada
ENSI/SENSI – Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes
Illuminating Photosynthesis – PBS interactive tutorial about photosynthesis; not a lab activity
Source: http://onlinelabs.in/biology
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