Experts from Cardiff University are developing a statistical tool that uses social media to make real-time predictions of where hate crimes may occur.
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2016
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Floods in California rarely attract the sort of attention that earthquakes, wildfires or even shark attacks do. Perhaps it has something to do with the severity of an unprecedented, yearslong drought that is far from over. ...
Environment
Mar 31, 2023
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Among the spandex-clad cyclists raised in the app generation, there's no smartphone notification as foreboding as one from Strava.
Software
May 3, 2016
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At 4:35 a.m. each weekday, Stan Paul drives out of his Southern California suburb with 10 passengers in a van, headed to his job as an undergraduate counselor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some 80 miles and ...
Other
Jun 26, 2015
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An online movement to save sharks from becoming the next victims of the COVID-19 pandemic is growing in support.
Ecology
Oct 6, 2020
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A recently released research brief from the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy draws fresh attention to the manner in which corporate entities have sought to benefit from an economic crisis by rapidly acquiring ...
Economics & Business
Nov 6, 2020
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The more than 66,000 unaccompanied Central American immigrant children who have crossed the United States' southern border since October present the nation with a refugee crisis, not an immigration crisis, according to Pulitzer ...
Social Sciences
Sep 30, 2014
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Researchers in Chapman University's Food Science Program and their collaborators at University of Washington have just published a study on the presence of Salmonella and E. coli on certain herbs sold at farmers' markets. ...
Other
Dec 15, 2014
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Los Angeles and Google have struck a partnership to track canopy density in the huge metropolis to determine which neighborhoods need more trees as a means of fighting extreme temperatures.
Environment
Nov 19, 2020
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7
The floor of the sprawling Los Angeles Auto Show is filled with fancy vehicles showing off their ultra-flashy, state-of-the-art infotainment systems, with giant screens that drivers really shouldn't be looking at while driving.
Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 30, 2018
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