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A collection of readings
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UK accent RP Received Pronunciation

Mr Robinson talks about 'RP' in the UK. Although his speech itself can be 'RP', self-described 'Northern RP', a definite example is given at the end of th
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January 14, 2019 9:21 AM
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China's Geography Problem

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December 19, 2018 1:04 PM
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What winter solstice rituals tell us about indigenous people

What winter solstice rituals tell us about indigenous people | SoRo class | Scoop.it
For indigenous peoples, winter solstice has been a time to honor their ancient sun deity. Their rituals reveal a deep understanding of the natural world.
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December 18, 2018 10:31 AM
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America's graying population in 3 maps

America's graying population in 3 maps | SoRo class | Scoop.it
Over the last 50 years, Americans have steadily gotten older, more bicoastal and less likely to move to a new city.
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December 16, 2018 2:38 PM
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'Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen': Svalbard, Norway, and Bodies in the Permafrost

'Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen': Svalbard, Norway, and Bodies in the Permafrost | SoRo class | Scoop.it
It’s illegal to be buried in Longyearbyen, where a melting permafrost threatens to revive ancient diseases.
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November 20, 2018 12:23 PM
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How Sears helped make women, immigrants and people of color feel more like Americans

How Sears helped make women, immigrants and people of color feel more like Americans | SoRo class | Scoop.it
Sears and other department stores not only changed how Americans consumed but altered the very nature of society and culture as well.
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November 13, 2018 11:09 AM
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How is 'new NAFTA' different? A trade expert explains

Canada, the US and Mexico are about to rip up the 25-year-old NAFTA and replace it with something new. But how new?
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October 29, 2018 10:42 AM
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The Pop vs. Soda Page

A page that maps the geographic distribution of the terms "pop" and "soda" when used to describe carbonated beverages
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October 29, 2018 10:38 AM
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World Video FRONTLINE PBS2

"The Last Place" by Alexis Bloom and Tsehwang Dendup. A documentary short about Bhutan and its cultural policies, from the perspective of the Bhutanes
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October 29, 2018 10:35 AM
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"Once Brothers" - Documentary about Petrovic and Divac relationship - Trailer

Upcoming NBA Entertainment documentary on Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac relationship during their respective NBA careers. ESPN Premiere scheduled o
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October 25, 2018 1:57 PM
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Как выращивают рис в Японии

Удивительные технологии возделывания риса в Японии
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October 21, 2018 2:17 PM
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Turning Points in History - Hammurabi's Code of Laws

A uniform set of laws becomes necessary with the rise of cities in order to keep order
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January 14, 2019 11:18 AM
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File:China blank map-2.png - Wikimedia Commons

File:China blank map-2.png - Wikimedia Commons | SoRo class | Scoop.it
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December 19, 2018 2:57 PM
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A Child's Christmas in Wales

❄Subscribe The Christmas Channel: http://bit.ly/2zhMs9B ▶A Child's Christmas in Wales This tale of enchantment is inspired by the classic poem from Dyla
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December 18, 2018 10:33 AM
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Search Results (Roman roads, page 1) - Ancient History Encyclopedia

Search Results (Roman roads, page 1) - Ancient History Encyclopedia | SoRo class | Scoop.it
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December 18, 2018 10:26 AM
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The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you

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Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its global scale and its lasting legacy. Anthony Hazard discusses the historical, economic and personal impact of this massive historical injustice.
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November 29, 2018 12:30 PM
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Evangelical Christians are racially diverse – and hold diverse views on immigration

Two of the fastest growing segments of the American population Latino and Asian-American voters - also are part of evangelical America. Their views on immigration are very different.
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November 14, 2018 3:26 PM
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Why Are People Using So Many Exclamation Points?

Why Are People Using So Many Exclamation Points? | SoRo class | Scoop.it
How many exclamation points do you need to seem genuinely enthusiastic?
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November 12, 2018 4:07 PM
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SVS: Crop Intensity

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen collaboration. In support of this collaboration, NASA and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) jointly funded a new project to assimilate NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data and products into an existing decision support system (DSS) operated by the International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) of FAS. To meet its objectives, FAS/IPAD uses satellite data and data products to monitor agriculture worldwide and to locate and keep track of natural disasters such as short and long term droughts, floods and persistent snow cover which impair agricultural productivity. FAS is the largest user of satellite imagery in the non-military sector of the U.S. government. For the last 20 years FAS has used a combination of Landsat and NOAA-AVHRR satellite data to monitor crop condition and report on episodic events.


To successfully monitor worldwide agricultural regions and provide accurate agricultural production assessments, it is important to understand the spatial distribution of croplands. To do this a global croplands mask to identify all sites used for crop production. Croplands are highly variable both temporally and spatially. Croplands vary from year to year due to events such as drought and fallow periods, and they vastly differ across the globe in accordance with characteristics such as cropping intensity and field size. A flexible crop likelihood mask is used to help depict these varying characteristics of global crop cover. Regions featuring intensive agro-industrial farming practices such as the Maize Triangle in South Africa will have higher confidence values in the crop mask as compared to less intensively farmed regions in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa where cropland identification is partly confounded with natural background vegetation phenologies. Thus, a customized threshold can be employed to examine areas of varying cropping intensification.

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October 29, 2018 10:53 AM
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Where We Came From and Where We Went, State by State - The New York Times

Where We Came From and Where We Went, State by State - The New York Times | SoRo class | Scoop.it
Updated charts now show two views: where people who live in each state were born, and where people who were born in a state moved to.
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October 29, 2018 10:39 AM
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radicalcartography

Radical Cartography, brought to you by Bill Rankin
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October 29, 2018 10:36 AM
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Distilled Demographics: What Is Race?

Race is a complex topic in the United States. It's not scientifically based and its definition depends on your social environment. Demographer Mark Mathe
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October 29, 2018 10:34 AM
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Girl Rising (Official Trailer)

From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins, award-winning Documentary Group, Vulcan Productions and Intel Corporation comes Girl Rising - a
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October 22, 2018 12:24 PM
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How to Turn Anxiety Into Excitement

How to Turn Anxiety Into Excitement | SoRo class | Scoop.it
It takes three words.
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