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PLOS ONE: Gender on the Brain: A Case Study of Science Communication in the New Media E... - 0 views

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Paul Beaufait on 09 Jun 15

"The journey of information from scientific journal through the various layers of public reception was characterised by the evolution of increasingly diversified, personalised and politicised meaning" (Discussion: How do science, gender and media intersect in contemporary society, ¶1, 2015.06.09).

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

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Paul Beaufait on 20 Jan 20

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

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Abe Fellowship - Fellowships & Grants - Social Science Research Council - 0 views

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Paul Beaufait on 06 Aug 15

This page provides an overview of the Abe Fellowship Program, its purpose and research agenda: "The Abe Fellowship Program Committee seeks applications for research explicitly focused on policy-relevant and contemporary issues with a comparative or transnational perspective that draw the study of the United States and Japan into wider disciplinary or theoretical debates" (Policy-Relevant, Contemporary, and Comparative or Transnational Research, ¶2) from eligible candidates every year by September 1st.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This page provides an overview of the Abe Fellowship Program, its purpose and research agenda: "The Abe Fellowship Program Committee seeks applications for research explicitly focused on policy-relevant and contemporary issues with a comparative or transnational perspective that draw the study of the United States and Japan into wider disciplinary or theoretical debates" (Policy-Relevant, Contemporary, and Comparative or Transnational Research, ¶2) from eligible candidates every year by September 1st.</div>

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

Paul Beaufait on 28 May 20

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

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Sea Surface Temperature | Climate Change | US EPA - 0 views

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Paul Beaufait on 14 Mar 16

This page dated 2015 provided graphs and data on sea surface temperature changes since 1880.

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English as lingua franca gives Singapore a fighting chance | Features | Malay Mail Online - 0 views

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shared by Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15 - No Cached

Adopting the international language of business, diplomacy, and science and technology was about the only way this resource-less tiny island could guarantee its survival after losing its economic hinterland in Malaysia. Unemployment was at 14 per cent and rising.
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Just as importantly, picking this race-neutral language demonstrated his government’s anti-communalistic stance, helping to keep the peace in a newborn nation made up of a polyglot-settler populace who had struggled for years with racial and religious strife.
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 For the sake of building “a community that feels together”, Lee pushed through the bilingualism policy in 1966. All students had to learn their “mother tongue”, Mandarin, Malay or Tamil, depending on their race, as a second language, and this became a compulsory and critical examination subject in 1969.
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 But the various initiatives Lee rolled out in subsequent years to put proficiency in mother tongue on par with that in English were to divide opinions, especially among the Chinese, even up to the present. Indeed, he described bilingualism in 2004 as the “most difficult” policy he had had to implement.
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Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15

This article recap's policies that made English a national language of education and made other official languages required second languages.

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Paul Beaufait on 21 Nov 19

"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).

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Climate Action Tracker [Home] - 0 views

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Paul Beaufait on 16 Mar 15

"The 'Climate Action Tracker' is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries. The website provides an up-to-date assessment of individual national pledges and currently implemented policy to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions" (deck, 2015.03.16).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The 'Climate Action Tracker' is an independent science-based assessment, which tracks the emission commitments and actions of countries. The website provides an up-to-date assessment of individual national pledges and currently implemented policy to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions" (deck, 2015.03.16).</div>

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