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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value. Whether shifting across geographies, languages, or systems, migration determines what knowledge endures and what is left behind.

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

Anthropology.net

By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire. Despite differences in time, geography, and material culture, many human groups developed the same set of knots—again and again. The phylogeny of Little Red Riding Hood. PLOS ONE , 8(11), e78871.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. Washington University in St.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life.

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Utopia on Trial

Living Geography

This has a biography of every GA President, along with hundreds of other posts on the history of the Association. You can borrow the book from the Internet Archive library. A cross posting from my GA Presidents blog. Utopia on Trial was written by Alice Coleman.

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Behind the scenes of Lowther Lodge

Living Geography

This blog post is about the building which houses the RGS, also known as "the home of Geography" and has also been described by Joe Smith as "the Broadcasting House of geography". An RGS history of Lowther Lodge is on this link (PDF download) At a recent RGS Council meeting we had a good tour of the building from top to bottom.