India surpassed North America to take the top global spot in the smartwatch market in the quarter that ended in September, according to a report from market research player Counterpoint. The festival sales and proliferation of affordable smartwatches helped grew the local market by 171% year-on-year. The affordable smartwatch models getting bigger displays and adding…
India pips North America to become the biggest smartwatch market — TechCrunch
By Lynda Yorke, Bangor University, Des McDougall, University of Worcester and Simon M. Hutchinson, University of Salford It is fair to state that in the last few years there has been an explosion of interest in, and development of, virtual field trips (VFTs). The pivot to online teaching, that was borne out of necessity due […]
Virtual field trips: Equitable, sustainable, develops the learner? — Geography Directions
Essay by Eric Worrall
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To Address Climate Change, This Psychiatrist Goes Where No One Has Gone Before
November 29, 2022
H. Steven Moffic, MDPsychiatry and inner space?closer than you think.
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In my November 15, 2022, column, ?I SCREAM for More Climate Action!? I bemoaned the slowness of society and psychiatry to help reduce climate change and instability. I asked for creative ways to obtain climate attention. I found one by serendipity.
While writing what became the column ?A Day of Launching Dreams and Nightmares,? I had CNN on in the background. I was catching a bit about someone who was flying balloons around the earth to save fossil fuel. Then he was being interviewed and I stopped writing to listen. To my great surprise, he was also…
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UCI study: Higher heat will limit ecosystem?s role in removing atmospheric CO2
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ? IRVINE
Irvine, Calif., July 22, 2021 ? To meet an ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045, California?s policymakers are relying in part on forests and shrublands to remove CO2from the atmosphere, but researchers at the University of California, Irvine warn that future climate change may limit the ecosystem?s ability to perform this service.
In a paper published today in the American Geophysical Union journalAGU Advances, the UCI Earth system scientists stressed that rising temperatures and uncertain precipitation will cause a decrease in California?s natural carbon storage capacity of as much…
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