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Best of SAPIENS 2024

Sapiens

The SAPIENS Editorial Team Material World Tools of the Wild: Unveiling the Crafty Side of Nature By Michael Haslam and Abigail Desmond Once considered a uniquely human activity, tool use has been spotted across diverse species. Its time to rethink what tools reveal about their users intelligence and evolution.

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

Anthropology.net

An Ancient Practice, Revisited Through Code Knots are one of humanity’s oldest tools—so ancient, in fact, that they predate agriculture, metallurgy, and written language. By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire.

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Recognizing the Digital Assets You Have at Your Disposal

A Principal's Reflections

Links to your resources and work can be archived and annotated using a social bookmarking tool such as Diigo. The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. Once my live video is shared on Twitter using Periscope, I then upload the archive to both IGTV and YouTube.

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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

provides connection and coherence through the careful effort of trained human curators, making more than ten thousand articles from five hundred publications easily searchable and interconnected. Teachers can share any entry, or collection of entries, from Bunk with students, who can also explore the evolving archives for themselves.

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Learning Never Stops

A Principal's Reflections

While every webinar is broadcast live at a set time, what makes them very appealing is that they are archived for convenient viewing. It is like a human-generated search engine on steroids that is at your beck and call. Many publishers and professional organizations offer these free of charge to their membership. It’s all about YOU!

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Cuts at the NEH

ASHP CML

Last week, the ASHP was one of many organizations and individuals suddenly notified about the termination of grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its state humanities councils bring reading programs, traveling exhibits, and authors to some of the country’s most rural corners.

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. Open-access sites like Annas Archive challenge these barriers, much like underground migration networks, offering access but risking legal suppression.