Science & Tech
Their findings suggest that the same types of messaging frames can be effectively used to communicate to conservatives and liberals, rather than speaking to each group individually.
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Local community members share rescue stories of animals they and SBWCN helped.
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Located in Goleta, the animal rehabilitation center has cared for over 3,100 patients so far in 2019.
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The researchers predicted the profitability of 223 hypothetical mussel farms along the coast from Point Conception to the Mexico border in a region known as the Southern California Bight.
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The idea for the initiative emerged when the researchers saw that replication across current, public studies on the short- and long-term effects of the birth control pill on the brain didn't yet exist...
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Sea urchins, much maligned throughout the California coast for destroying kelp forests, might not be quite the pests that they appear to be.
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Meng and Rode were able to measure exactly how the Waxman-Markey bill was affected by the lobbying money surrounding its approval in the House and its no-show in the Senate.
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"Our study was about trying to find the reservoir of gas that feeds galaxies like the Milky Way,” Martin said.
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It was especially fortuitous that the bloom occurred in the Santa Barbara Channel, a strip of coast which has been subject to close monitoring.
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One significant takeaway from the research is that NGOs can still play an integral role even in an authoritarian country like China.
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After compiling the range and conservation status of 5,291 marine species, the scientists calculated the average extinction risk for each species against their worldwide distribution.
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“The question is whether we can turn this large volume of carbonaceous material that we are producing into an opportunity to store the carbon that is emitted into the atmosphere that creates the gre...
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Each week, “Dirtriders” on bikes with a cargo trailer attached pick up buckets filled with food product from their designated houses. Then, they drop off a new, clean five-gallon bucket for their ...
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The presence of two dispositions (aggressive and docile) begs the question, which one leads to greater success?
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In addition, McCauley and his colleagues found that local species extinctions in the ocean occurred at twice the rate than those on land.
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
"The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“1984” by George Orwell
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
