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Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming

Political Science Now

Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming By Jennifer Forestal , Loyola University Chicago. While there is disagreement over the value of public shaming, scholars largely agree that social media introduce pathologies. But while scholars rightly identify the effects of online public shaming (OPS), they misidentify the cause. Rather than solely a problem of scale, OPSs effects are also shaped by the network structure within which they take place.

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Met Office animation: the passage of a depression

Living Geography

A Met Office resource. Check out their other resources on Climate Change weather and adaptation.

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The Marsh Ambush: What a 300,000-Year-Old Horse Hunt Reveals About Early Human Cooperation

Anthropology.net

The Marsh Ambush: What a 300,000-Year-Old Horse Hunt Reveals About Early Human Cooperation A horse bone bed in northern Germany offers rare insight into the minds and methods of pre-modern humans—and how deep the roots of social intelligence may go. On the edge of a shallow lake in what is now Lower Saxony, Germany, a group of hunters closed in on a herd of wild horses.

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The importance of fieldwork in Geography

Living Geography

Fiona Sheriff and Phill Monk have written a piece on the importance of fieldwork in Geography. Well worth a read. Also check out Fiona's book, which won a GA Award.

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Supreme Court cases could pave way for larger role for religion in public schools

The Hechinger Report

The Supreme Court over the next two weeks will hear two cases that have the potential to erode the separation of church and state and create a seismic shift in public education. Mahmoud v. Taylor, which goes before the court on April 22, pits Muslim, Roman Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox families, as well as those of other faiths, against the Montgomery County school system in Maryland.

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New BBC Bitesize videos: Plate Tectonics

Living Geography

A new set of videos which explores Plate Tectonics. There are three videos, one on each of the main elements covered in KS3 lessons in most cases: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis.

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Fair Trade: Racial Preferences for Trade Policies

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Sienna Nordquist , covers the new article by Daniel Lobo and Ryan Brutger, University of California, Berkeley, “Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes “ On April 2, 2025, Pres.