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Mapping Ancient Emotions: How Mesopotamians Felt and Expressed Their Feelings in the Body

Anthropology.net

But how did ancient humans experience and describe these feelings? By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time. PDF Link : uzh.ch Svärd, et al.

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An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist

Anthropology 365

I was trying to understand how humans and wildlifeparticularly javelinaslive together in messy, contested landscapes, shaped as much by perception and politics as by biology. Instead, Jon turned his deep grounding in genetics into a sharp critique of how science makes claims about human difference. By the time I left for a Ph.D.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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Both Humans and Technology Are Noisy: How Do We Move Forward?

Digital Promise

Like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this report was lost in the vast government archives, but I saved a copy and it has influenced the way I currently see efficacy research and behavioral science research writ large. Human beings themselves are innately noisy and variable creatures. Shilling, R.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on Aug. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app. The P2P industry thrived in 2014, championing financial inclusion ( puhui jinrong ) endorsed by the state.

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Follow the Things - now refreshed

Living Geography

The GA and RGS(IBG) were awarded funding for a joint initiative called the Action Plan for Geography (2006-2011) whose Young Peoples Geographies project involved CEO Ian as a participating academic [see the project website archive on the Wayback Machine here ].

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60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer

Teaching American History

Courtesy of Civil Rights Movement Archive, [link] The best known of these “freedom facets” is also the most immediately politically consequential one: the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Fannie Lou Hamer and Bob Moses on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in 1964. Jackson, MS. Visited on-site June 2024.