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Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...circulating on social media, from diverting blame to touting unverified cures. What are your thoughts about it? Elisabeth: I am sad to see how gullible and not-critical some people are. It seems that suddenly everyone is an expert in viral epidemiology and anyone who says something online about a new way to solve the COVID-19 crisis will quickly gain a lot of followers....
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Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...et al., 2019, p. 634) Figure 3 Elements in the communications process The macro-model of communications illustrates that communications should be a circular process and not a linear one. In the next activity, you will apply this model to a hypothetical campaign. Activity 2 communications process model Timing: Allow around 10 minutes for this activity. For a hypothetical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...double consciousness: African Americans can see society both through their own experience, and understand how white people see it differently; and the Veil: it’s as if a veil hangs between African Americans and a full life, through which they can dimly see others aspiring and achieving as they try to do. Here is the example in this quote: After the Egyptian and Indian,...
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How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...circulation patterns. Atmospheric transport spreads volcanic outputs over wide areas. The climate change resulting from the atmospheric response to volcanic gases and aerosols is thought to have melted the ice in periods when Earth was deep-frozen and to have caused mass extinctions several times in the past. The atmosphere today is both a consequence of, and essential...
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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...circulate, and the presence of microbes and other organisms to break down organic matter, to how often the soil is disturbed by a plough or compressed by heavy machinery. The structure of the soils – which the soil experts sometimes refer to as soils physics – is also important, and centres around large and small clumps of soil that hold together. Six explains that in...
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Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...et al., 2015) led to calls for action. The weighing of costs of inaction i.e. no further protection, and action i.e. spending on further protection measures, has resulted in the UK government prioritizing cities such as London because they deliver high economic value to the economy. This prioritizing of some places over others in the UK means that populations in centres...
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The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.
Society, Politics & Law

The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.

...et al., 2017). Generally, juries are viewed postively by the public and professionals working within the criminal justice system (CJS). Research has repeatedly showed support for jury trials for example, Roberts & Hough (2009) asked participants to rate the importance of six democratic rights. They found that the right to a jury trial was rated as the most important,...
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Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!
Nature & Environment

Why we’re mapping a million trees and more!

...et al. (2019) The global tree restoration potential. Vol. 365 (6448) pp. 76-79. [2] https://www.charteredforesters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Doick-et-al_Canopy-Cover-of-Englands-Towns-and-Cities_revised220317_combined.pdf [3] 23 November to 1 December 2019, is National Tree Week, the UK's largest annual tree celebration, marking the start of the winter tree planting...
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