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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Most participants come to the programme with little-to-no bird identification experience and live within 20 km of their data collection beach.” Ben and Julia used two social science research methods to gather data. We’re taught that science is a truth, but that’s as subjective as any other statement.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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How does economics combine mathematics and social science? Rather than explaining economic problems and theories in words, which can lead to vague and confusing conclusions, economists describe economic and social phenomena with mathematical models, representing the problem in a precise and specific language.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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Dr Elsa Anderson Role: Assistant Professor, Programme in Environmental Science Institution: Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) I teach an urban ecology class that aims to engage students in learning about nature where they live and understanding the interactions between people and their surroundings.