We could power a new green movement by talking about energy change
What's your energy story?
Environment
Apr 21, 2020
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News tagged with story
Study finds no media bias when it comes to story selection
For as long as there have been news media, there have been allegations that journalists are biased and slant stories to fit their views. While many studies have explored this issue, there has been little research into how ...
Social Sciences
Apr 02, 2020
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Crowdsourcing plot lines to help the creative process
Creative authors could soon have a new option to help overcome writer's block, thanks to a system launched by researchers in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State.
Education
Mar 13, 2020
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When skin tone scars: The hurt of colorism among Asian-Americans
The seeds for Nikki Khanna's new book, "Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism," were planted when the UVM Sociology professor was a child growing up in suburban Atlanta.
Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2020
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Don't blame the messenger—unless it's all stats and no story
It's curious how an issue like climate change remains unsettled in segments of the population despite the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is responsible for the Earth's current warming trend.
Social Sciences
Mar 06, 2020
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'A wasted decade': Time left for climate action has shrunk two-thirds in 10 years
"A wasted decade." That is how the past decade is called because of insufficient political action on climate change. It means that nations must now do four times the work—or do the same work in one-third of the time—to ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 05, 2020
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Let's teach Australian kids more about dugongs than dinosaurs with these books
Identifying the difference between a native burrowing frog and an introduced cane toad is fundamental ecological knowledge. After bushfires ravaged Australia's animal and plant communities and razed millions of hectares of ...
Ecology
Mar 04, 2020
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The catch to putting warning labels on fake news
After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook began putting warning tags on news stories fact-checkers judged to be false. But there's a catch: Tagging some stories as false makes readers more willing to believe other ...
Social Sciences
Mar 03, 2020
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How to decipher the news to find the facts
Nine months to go till the November presidential election. How do you wade through the political rhetoric and potential biases and falsehoods from various information outlets to get to the real facts?
Education
Feb 26, 2020
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Proper etiquette in the presence of bison
Since the start of the Life Bison Project in 2016, 56 bison have been translocated from Germany and Poland—55 to reintroduction areas and one to the breeding center in Hunedoara. The bison roam freely at two main reintroduction ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 10, 2020
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