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Global Social Responses to Covid-19 Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/global-social-responses-to-covid-19-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 The Ivy Plus web archive is creating a record of the evolution of Covid-19’s social impact since March 2020 by preserving snapshots of key websites from areas of the global...
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Researchers use NASA’s Webb to map weather of planet 280 light-years away
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/clouds-wasp-43b
Atmospheric modelling led in part by University of Leicester reveals true extent of clouds on distant world reveals WASP-43 b is cloudy on the nightside but mostly clear on the dayside, with equatorial winds howling around the planet at 5,000 miles per hour
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Book on British spy fiction receives prestigious award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/book-on-british-spy-fiction-receives-prestigious-award
Dr Alan Burton, Honorary Visiting Fellow in History of Art and Film from our School of Arts, has recently been awarded an Outstanding Reference Source Award by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) for his recent publication on British spy fiction.
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New United States elections (and other political) web archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/17/new-united-states-elections-and-other-political-web-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2018 The Library of Congress has just released a mass of themed web archive collections.
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The World Wide Web is 30 years old
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/the-world-wide-web-is-30-years-old/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what would become the World Wide Web to his boss at the European Organization for...
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Astrophysics Seminar – 17th Feb 3pm. JJ Hermes: White dwarf variability as seen from space
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/02/11/astrophysics-seminar-17th-feb-3pm-jj-hermes-white-dwarf-variability-as-seen-from-space/
Posted by ab520 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 11 February 2021 Please find a teams link in the Astrophysics Group > Seminars area. Abstract: White dwarfs have been used as flux standards for decades, thanks to their staid simplicity.
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Scientists to share science behind James Webb Space Telescope this half term
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/galaxies-assemble
Space scientists from the University of Leicester will demonstrate the cutting-edge science behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at the National Space Centre this October half term.
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Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,...
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Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch
MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...
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English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en7512
Module code: EN7512 This module aims to explore the key areas of ESP and examine their applications to specific learning contexts. It will consider the development and status of ESP, and its sub areas, within the teaching of English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).