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Your food choices affect Earth's climate | Science News for Students - 0 views

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    "Eating meat can have twice the 'carbon footprint' of consuming fruits, veggies and grains" (Raloff, deck, 2014.07.11).
Paul Beaufait

Loyola faculty group is pushing back against major cuts to its English language learnin... - 0 views

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    "Shuffleton said contributions of international students were 'invaluable.' Still, the specialized instruction they needed in English was something that even the best professors of other subjects weren't qualified to provide" (Flaherty, 2020.02.05).
Paul Beaufait

Social sciences miss out on climate change research funding | Times Higher Education (THE) - 0 views

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    Digest of "a paper published recently in the journal Energy Research & Social Science" (¶3).
Paul Beaufait

NOAA's Ten Signs of a Warming World - 1 views

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    "This set of indicators was selected [from the 2009 State of the Climate report], as we would unambiguously expect them to increase or decrease if the world were warming" (About the Data, para. 2, 2020.01.15).
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EF EPI 2019 - EF English Proficiency Index - Asia - 0 views

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    "Room for improvement: For decades, Asia has been the workshop of the world, fueling economic development across the region. But a transition from manufacturing to knowledge-driven growth will require better English."
Paul Beaufait

IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 0 views

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    "The IPCC was created to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments on climate change, its implications and potential future risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation options" (2019.11.21).
Paul Beaufait

Is paid research time a vanishing privilege for modern academics? | Times Higher Educat... - 0 views

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    "While 39 per cent of those surveyed by THE say that the 40/40/20 workload model is still the ideal breakdown, compared with 38 per cent who do not, a massive 80 per cent say it is not realistically achievable in the time contractually available" (Mayo, 2019, Less time for research but more time on work, ¶9). Mayo, Nick. (2019.07.25). Is paid research time a vanishing privilege for modern academics? Retrieved from https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/paid-research-time-vanishing-privilege-modern-academics
Paul Beaufait

What Are The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World? | Babbel Magazine - 1 views

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    "When we count the top 10 most spoken languages according to the total number of people who speak them (whether or not the language is their mother tongue), eight of the 10 languages from the list above still make an appearance, but with a few major differences: English narrowly edges out Chinese for the top spot, Japanese and Punjabi lose their spots, and French and Indonesian join the top 10 ..." (Top 10 Languages by Total Number[s] of Speakers, ¶1).
Paul Beaufait

The 10 Vital Skills You Will Need For The Future Of Work - 0 views

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    In this post including a 16-slide SlideShare presentation, Bernard Marr recommended "adopting a commitment to lifelong learning so you can acquire the skills you will need to succeed in the future workplace" (¶1).
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10,000 Year Clock - 0 views

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    A project to inspire and promote long-term thinking
Paul Beaufait

Empowered educators: How high-performing systems shape teacher quality around the world... - 0 views

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    "This brief examines the practices of recruitment and selection of teachers in five countries: Australia (specifically, New South Wales and Victoria), Canada (Alberta and Ontario), Finland, Shanghai, and Singapore. It describes features that are unique to each and underscores themes that are common to all" (p. 1).
Paul Beaufait

How the internet flips elections and alters our thoughts | Aeon Essays - 0 views

  • randomised, controlled experiments tell us over and over again that when higher-ranked items connect with web pages that favour one candidate, this has a dramatic impact on the opinions of undecided voters, in large part for the simple reason that people tend to click only on higher-ranked items. This is truly scary
  • search engines are influencing far more than what people buy and whom they vote for. We now have evidence suggesting that on virtually all issues where people are initially undecided, search rankings are impacting almost every decision that people make
Paul Beaufait

Personal Web searching in the age of semantic capitalism: Diagnosing the mechanisms of ... - 0 views

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    "Our findings contribute to an improved understanding of the effects personalisation has and proposes several lines of interpretation of the quantitative data. Based on this, we conclude that more research is urgently needed to develop a wider understanding of the social and cultural implications of personalisation of Web search in people's everyday life (Introduction, ¶6).
Paul Beaufait

Sunscreen: "Worse than Climate Change" - PARLEY - 0 views

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    "Most sunscreens contain non-biodegradable ingredients and harmful chemicals. Some of the worst are oxybenzone, octinoxate and triclosan" (Step 1: Read Labels, ¶1).
Paul Beaufait

A-Conscious-Craft-An-Approach-to-Teaching-Collaborative-Computer-mediated-Composition -... - 0 views

  • in a sense, the peer review process is embedded within the structure of collaborative composition on a shared document, as edits as well as oral and written meta-commentary occur and recur throughout the lifespan of a Doc
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