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In the Baltics, 85 millimeters separate East from West

Strange Maps

The precursor and inspiration for Rail Baltica was a curious event that occurred on August 23, 1989, when up to 2 million people linked hands across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — then still part of the Soviet Union — to form the longest human chain in history. The second, completing the whole project, currently has no end date.

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From President Kirk Ormand: The Future of the Annual Meeting

Society for Classical Studies

We have just signed a contract to hold our annual meeting, in conjunction with the AIA, in Boston in 2027 and are currently considering locations for 2028 and 2029, both of which also would be with the AIA. There are good reasons for our members uncertainty about the fate of the annual meeting.

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Ten jobs that are safe from robots

The Hechinger Report

Here, we take a look at jobs that, to the extent that workforce and automation research can predict the future, will continue to depend largely on uniquely human skills, thus remaining relatively robot-proof. The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic.”.

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"What are we teaching? Powerful knowledge and a capabilities curriculum" - a review

Living Geography

USA 2025-2028 is not a serial I am looking forward to. 135-6 Richard also discusses the need to de/colonise curricula, and that the Humanities have a legacy of ignoring discussions about what was taught and how it was framed. As Richard says on p.22, 22, "Teachers need to be the experts in the classroom.

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Too hot for school

The Hechinger Report

I’m also looking forward to an upcoming bond in 2028 when I think we’ll put a lot of these climate infrastructure projects on the ballot. Balbus, director of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity for the Department of Health and Human Services; and David Michaels, an epidemiologist and professor at George Washington University.

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As EPA pulls back, advocates warn it’s schoolchildren who face the steepest risks

The Hechinger Report

The agency also will not implement any enforcement and compliance actions that could shut down energy production or power generation absent an imminent and substantial threat to human health. Air Products plans to start commercial operation in 2028 where an estimated 600,000 metric tons of hydrogen will be produced annually from methane gas.