The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2025

Imagine youre a student in high school or college. Class is about to start. You are faced with a notable dilemma: Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes? The answer is not so simple. A year ago, paper and pen seemed to be the winner when the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a Norwegian study that documented how different areas of the brain were communicating more frequently when students were writing by hand.

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Psychology High School Research Education 141

Political Science Now

JANUARY 20, 2025

Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans Support for Refugees By Nazita Lajevardi , Michigan State University , Tarah Williams , Allegheny College , Evan Stewart , University of MassachusettsBoston , and Roy Whitaker , San Diego State University As more people are displaced by climate change, public acceptance of migrants is an increasingly relevant geographical and political issue.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2025

Earning a college education can be the gateway to a brighter future with greater earning potential, improved career options and a strong sense of well-being for graduates. These benefits dont just impact graduates they ripple through families and communities, strengthening our society as a whole. But today only 36 percent of Americans express high confidence in higher education, according to recent polling.

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Economics Advocacy Education Policy Research 113

Living Geography

JANUARY 20, 2025

Norfolk is at risk of coastal erosion. A coastal task force is apparently being created to explore the best options for saving homes at Hemsby, where homes in the dunes have been lost regularly for some years. The BBC had a feature last week on a related story of Briony Nierop Reading. She lost her house in Happisburgh after the storm surge of December 2013.

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ShortCutsTV

JANUARY 20, 2025

Three short(ish) films dredged-up from The Archive (Im not exactly sure which Archive but it probably sounds more-authentic than found on an old neglected hard drive) that provide a good overview of the major theoretical strands in the history of sociological theorising about crime and deviance. 1.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 20, 2025

My Orbital SoW is taking shape - just as well really as I'm talking about it at a conference in less than a week's time. This is a quiz which is located at Schiphol airport. It's been developed by the European Space Agency. The idea is that travellers scan the QR code on the posters, and are taken to an image of a mystery location from space. Also check out the esri WorldView extension for Chrome , which gives you a new random location each time you open a browser window.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 20, 2025

David Gregory is a graduate student in political science at California State University, Chico, where he is completing his MA with a focus on Indigenous representation and systemic inequities in political science. A member of the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, Davids research integrates Tribal Critical Race Theory to examine the political and legal harms of Indigenous erasure, aiming to diversify curricula and inform equitable public policies.

Political Science 48

Political Science Government Research Education 48

Sapiens

JANUARY 20, 2025

A poet moves through rituals of silence and erasure that permeate the U.S. military prison at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba. An Order for My Backpack and Three Stages of Nowhere are part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through. Read the introduction to the collection here. An Order for My Backpack For the Public Affairs Officer at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba; July 9, 2016 This is my watch, this is my phone, this is my application for this visit, approved & blameless in a clear folder.

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Cultures 107