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Yearly Archives: 2016

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  • 11 Aug 2016
    Danny Hayes, Jennifer L. Lawless

    Think there’s a lot of gender bias in U.S. elections? Think again.

    Jennifer L. Lawless and Danny Hayes talk Women on the Run and whether there is a gender bias in U.S. elections.

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  • 4 Aug 2016
    Emma Smith

    Shakespeare’s First Folio: the most-studied book in the world

    The most-studied book in the world must be Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, a collection of thirty-six plays first published in London in 1623 and now known as the First Folio. Every single one of its nine hundred pages – even every single piece of type on every page – has been minutely […]

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  • 3 Aug 2016
    Bruce M.S. Campbell

    What Can Medieval History Tell Us About Environmental Change?

    Does research into medieval history serve any useful purpose other than the pursuit of scholarship for its own sake? Labour Education Minister Charles Clarke thought not when in 2003 he declared that the primary purpose of the university system was ‘to enable the British economy to deal with the challenges posed by the increasingly rapid […]

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  • 2 Aug 2016
    Language and the Law Linguistic Inequality in America
    Douglas A. Kibbee

    The Invisible Wall : Language

    Cambridge author Douglas A. Kibbee explores the language of democracy in relation to his new book Language and the Law: Linguistic Inequality in America .

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  • 31 Jul 2016
    Maxim Bolt

    Author Maxim Bolt discusses his BBC award-winning study of life on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa

    Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence began with my interest in people’s experiences of uprootedness and settlement. At the time, the Zimbabwean-South African border was receiving a lot of press attention about ‘floods’ of migrants fleeing the Zimbabwean Crisis. I wanted to understand first-hand this displacement from migrants’ own points […]

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  • 28 Jul 2016
    John Braun

    Why You Should Care About R

    Data science is on the rise and infiltrating almost every field. Properly educated researchers and professionals with an extensive knowledge of how data analysis and statistics are married together will be essential. In an interview with The University of British Columbia, Okanagan, author and Professor John Braun explains what he enjoys about the statistical program […]

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  • 25 Jul 2016
    Professor Grant Bigg discusses climate change in polar regions
    Grant R. Bigg

    How is climate change affecting Polar Regions? Part 3 – Professor Grant Bigg

    Professor Grant R. Bigg, author of Icebergs has worked with industry on iceberg and sea-ice related topics since 2007, here he talks about climate change in the polar regions and discusses how the the differences in Arctic/Antarctic geography leads to varied responses in the arctic regions.

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  • 20 Jul 2016
    Barry C. Burden, Charles Stewart III

    How Are Elections Run?

    Ever since the meltdown in Florida starting on election day 2000, there has been a spotlight on how elections are run.  Since that time, the states have been the venue for many election reforms, lawsuits, innovations, and controversies. There have been massive improvements in voting technology, rapid increases in early voting, and whole host of […]

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