Global Scholars Unit 4

Information flows unimpeded and unchecked through the internet, filling a multitude of websites, blogs and tweets. Salon (Feb 9, 2017)

Using a digital tablet, he lays down the dialogue, sound effects and music in a multimedia storyboard before introducing images. New York Times (Dec 4, 2016)

The monitor measures the electrical activity of the brain from sensors located across key areas of the scalp. BBC (Jan 30, 2017)

One of the joys of my job is working with interesting, smart, accomplished people. Washington Post (Jan 30, 2017)

Virtual reality is offering artists the chance to express themselves in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago. BBC (Feb 3, 2017)

Today’s increasingly digital economy still depends on physical records to establish identity, and that’s creating numerous problems. Wall Street Journal (Feb 7, 2017)

As always, analysts will closely watch the company’s user growth figures, a point of difficulty for Twitter since its initial public offering in 2013. New York Times (Feb 5, 2017)

I’ll also catch up on work or brainstorm ideas for new projects and events, or I’ll read something totally unrelated to work. New York Times (Jan 20, 2017)

Because sofas are such big purchases, they also require a lot of research and measurements. Washington Post (Feb 7, 2017)

Later, officials kept revising the estimate of the leak, from one to 20 tons of oil. Washington Post (Feb 2, 2017)

To put it another way, no one’s expecting to plan a championship parade anytime soon. Washington Times (Feb 9, 2017)

High pressure is expected to build late Saturday creating cloudy to partly and mostly sunny skies well into early next week. Seattle Times (Feb 9, 2017)

Sir Peter shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with the inventor of the technique, US chemist Professor Paul Lauterbur. BBC (Feb 9, 2017)

Those skills are already being tested as he prepares for a sideways move to what is arguably the most important job in UK science. Nature (Feb 7, 2017)

His confederates at Les Halles were amused, if mystified, by his blossoming career as a writer, and the owners were accommodating about the book tour. The New Yorker (Feb 5, 2017)