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  • Town Commemorates Convicts, by Minako Sakata

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/09/29/town-commemorate-convicts-by-minako-sakata/

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on September 29, 2014 At the end of August, I visited Tsukigata, a small town in Hokkaido where the Kabato Central Prison was located from 1881 to 1919.

  • Book Group: A Tourist in Africa

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/06/29/tourist-2/

    Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on June 29, 2015 First Edition of A Tourist in Africa (1960) Before last Saturday, I kept quiet about A Tourist in Africa ’s reputation as Waugh’s ‘worst book’.

  • How do the media create and spreads stories?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/how-do-the-media-create-and-spreads-stories/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 An interesting open-source site is M edia Cloud.   This is a joint project by the MIT Center for Civic Media and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

  • The State of Broadband 2015

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/the-state-of-broadband-2015/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 Latest annual report from  (ITU/ UNESCO) Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development shows that 57% of the world have no broadband access.

  • Inclusive Growth Monitor

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/inclusive-growth-monitor/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 New from the Joseph Rowntree Trust a tool for examining and measuring the relationship between poverty and growth .

  • Trees in tropical logged forests release carbon at greater rate despite faster growth, study finds

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/carbon-trees

    University of Leicester-led research focusing on the carbon dioxide produced by tree stems shows that individual trees in tropical forests impacted by logging produce more carbon dioxide per m2 of woody stem area than those in unaffected forests

  • Swift satellite spots its thousandth gamma-ray burst

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/swift-satellite-spots-its-thousandth-gamma-ray-burst

    Leicester scientists are celebrating the discovery of the 1,000th gamma-ray burst (GRB) by the US/UK/Italian Swift spacecraft. GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe, typically associated with the collapse of a massive star and the birth of a black hole.

  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet loss over the last 11000 years shown in new study

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-loss-over-the-last-11-000-years-shown-in-new-study

    An international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and involving our University has shown that wind-driven incursions of warm water forced the retreat of glaciers in West Antarctica during the past 11,000 years.

  • Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 714 April

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-7-14-april

    Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has written an article for The Conversation exploring how it could be a good idea to discuss topics such as sex, rape and pornography in classrooms in order to properly educate young people about...

  • Waugh and Words: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 4

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/page/4/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

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