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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

Anthropology.net

But beyond their everyday function of fastening and securing, knots hold something deeper: a story about the evolution of human cognition, the flow of culture, and the quiet persistence of shared technique across continents and millennia. The process of Gauss coding a simple knot. Image credit: Roope Kaaronen / University of Helsinki.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Adults in the audience responded with knowing and affirming sounds, signaling their recognition of the persistent apartheid geography that maintains racialized access to spaces and opportunities in their city. We want them to learn how to claim space, because we grew up in Cape Town, but we don’t really know Cape Town.”

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Some rural states are cutting higher ed. One state is doing the opposite

The Hechinger Report

Like many rural Americans, the people here are place-bound, their educational choices constrained by geography as much as by cost. When the Grand Hotel burned down, in 2015, a sense of resignation settled in, Glaser said. Until fairly recently, that decision made economic sense.

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Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

The Hechinger Report

Communities, ones organized by race, socioeconomic class and geography, use schools to cover blatant housing discrimination, school financing bias and white supremacy. These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them.

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Geopsychology: Your personality depends on where you live

Strange Maps

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. But the significant degree of variation for most of the characteristics illustrates that the state is far from culturally monolithic. PLOS ONE , 2015) Strange Maps #1117 For more on geopsychology, see Tobias Ebert et al.,

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. Nobody can own spectrum, but they can get a license to use specific frequencies, which the FCC grants by geography. We can flip the classroom. We know kids can be more efficient in their work, and access information wherever they are,” said Merlo. That’s why, for example, 92.9

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. West Virginia’s enrollment is down by 10 percent since 2015. Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. They’re also more likely to drop out than their urban and suburban classmates.

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