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Groundbreaking research identifies what makes human brains – and humans – unique in the animal world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-concept-cells
A neuroscientist at the University of Leicester has identified a fundamental difference between human and animal brains. This breakthrough, published today in the journal Cell, offers an explanation for what makes Homo sapiens so vastly different from even our nearest relatives.
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Journalism academic set for ninth night of general election analysis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/tor-election
As election fever hits the UK, one University of Leicester academic is about to cover his ninth UK general election night.
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Violence against journalists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/16/violence-against-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 16, 2015 Following the Charlie Hebdo atrocity read the statement to the nation from French President Francois Hollande and view this homage A snapshot of newspaper coverage...
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2016 summer Olympics and Paralympics web archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/2016-summer-olympics-and-paralympics-web-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 Free access via the Archive-It service to material collected by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) There are over 4,000 materials from a range of...
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Unfiltered News
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/unfiltered-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Launched by Jigsaw in April 2016, t his site seeks to expose those news stories which are being under-reported by the media in different areas of the world using Google Newsdata.
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Spectator Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/spectator-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 Still in beta format: http://archive.spectator.co.uk/ Search free of charge the full text digital version of this weekly, right-wing magazine from July 1828 to December 2008.
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Urban Gems/Happiness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/28/urban-gemshappiness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 28, 2012 http://urbangems.org/ A new academic project that aims to crowd source what citizens like about cities and what makes them happy.
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Bloomberg: carbon offsets and environmental issues
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/24/bloomberg-carbon-offsets-and-environmental-issues/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2013 Carbon markets remain under pressure with the collapse of United Nations climate change talks last week.
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New frontier database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/01/24/new-frontier-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2011 Columbia Journalism review has launched a new database which aims to index and provide information about digital news outlets in the USA.
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2012twit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/13/2012twit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2012 http://2012twit.com/ A project which aims to provide real time coverage of the USA 2012 elections from Twitter. It looks at trending topics and recent tweets.