Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Ancient Artistry of Ochre Mining in Eswatini The Lion Cavern at Ngwenya, Eswatini, holds groundbreaking evidence 1 of humanity's earliest intensive ochre mining practices, dating back 48,000 years. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating methods confirmed its use as the world’s oldest ochre mine.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Over the past 12 months, we have been part of an Opportunity America working group studying the changes needed for community colleges to become the engine for both economic mobility and national competitiveness. The post OPINION: Community colleges can be the engine of economic recovery. Related: Special Report on Community Colleges.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A just-under-the-surface skepticism about the usefulness of a humanities degree as job preparation. What can’t you do with a humanities degree?” My older siblings were going to nursing and medical school and all of my cousins were pursuing engineering, science and business degrees. Drawing on data from the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Sign up here.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Cloud State University in Minnesota is cutting 42 degree programs , for example, including criminal justice, gerontology, history, electrical and environmental engineering, economics and physics. In all, more than 25 programs have now been eliminated there, many of them in the humanities.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

Initially, the built-in education to counteract uncontrollable mega-modernity was Home Economics—emphasis on economics. It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. It taught civilian survival and resilience.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 30, 2025

Sheep and the Rise of Human Societies For over 11,000 years, sheep have been central to human survival, providing food, milk, wool, and economic stability to societies from the Near East to the edges of Europe and beyond. But how did this partnership begin? Sheep in arid landscape, southeastern Morocco. Photo by J.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

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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Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

The earliest phase, dating between 2200–2000 BCE , provides evidence of human activity at the cusp of the Bronze Age transition. Kach Kouch upends this assumption, showing that indigenous communities were already engaged in complex economic and social structures centuries before Carthage was even founded.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

If we don’t act now, working-class Americans will keep slipping economically. . We need to focus on investing more resources in designing innovative solutions that provide job skills for working-class adults, connecting these Americans to better economic opportunities. Related: Out of poverty, into the middle class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans. The future will leave room for human teachers. The post The future includes good (human) teachers appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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DECEMBER 25, 2024

As 2024 winds down, I wanted to share some of the stories that have resonated most with me this year: First, cozy up with a cup of cocoa and allow yourself to be transported to Norway, where childhood is seen as a time of innate value and child care programs are required to be rooted in values like empathy and a belief in human worth.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

These values rest on the belief that humans are apart from natural systems rather than a part of these systems, creating tensions for federal land managers and residents. These tensions point to a fundamental disconnect in understandings of how humans and landscapes are connected. What’s going on back there to have that blocked off?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

However, as the economy has grown, so has economic inequality, increasing dramatically across the country. This growing economic inequality is also widening educational achievement gaps and causing many young people to have a lack of empathy and understanding for those outside their socioeconomic peer groups.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Together they not only engage both sides of the brain, they bring us a fuller experience of the world — to say nothing of the economic opportunities. This neglect has set them up with a false belief that the human experience is binary: creative or linear; purposeful or financially lucrative.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This further underscores their ceremonial importance rather than economic utility. “Understanding how these practices spread and their significance will help us uncover more about the relationship between early humans and their environment.” ” Related Research Morales, J., & Latini, R.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions.

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TeachThought

JUNE 18, 2024

Explore biological systems and their functions in human biology. Understand the cultural, social, and economic factors in history. Learn to use mathematical software tools like MATLAB or R for computations. Science Science goals encompass a broad scope of fields: Master the basic concepts of Newtonian physics.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 28, 2024

The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us By Geoff Dancy , University of Toronto and Christopher J. Fariss , University of Michigan Where is the human rights discourse most resonant? The answer to both questions, our research suggests, is “yes.” Read the full article.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

Yet, as political theorist Rouven Symank argues, situating the concept of solidarity within its historical context reveals how it interacted with the political project of integrating colonies into imperial economic and legal orders. After Durkheims death in 1917, however, these ideas took on a distinctly colonial dimension.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This module looks at how humans interact with the sea using aquariums as the lens in which to see them. Human geography, including economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water. These resources can be used under the creative commons CC BY-NC licence.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. On the bus, Lewontin turned his attention to humans. His results have been replicated time and again over the last 50 years, as datasets have ballooned from a handful of proteins to hundreds of thousands of human genomes.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

Early research is finding that the new artificial intelligence of large language models, also known as generative AI, is approaching the accuracy of a human in scoring essays and is likely to become even better soon. In one batch of 943 essays, ChatGPT was within a point of the human grader 89 percent of the time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: We’ve known for quite some time that pollution is bad for your health but researchers are documenting how it affects our brains. Sefi Roth, an economist at the London School of Economics, is an author of both studies. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. I learned about the impact of viruses on the human genome and spoke at conferences about how our evolutionary past made us subject to diseases in modern environments.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ramsey blamed Americans for their economic struggles amid a pandemic that has decimated the economy and left more than 20 million people unemployed, arguing that “you have a career problem, you have a debt problem, you have a relationship problem, you have a mental health problem, or something else is going on if $600 changes your life.”.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The research, conducted by Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko from the University of Tokyo, Copenhagen University, and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, delves into how competitive gift-giving practices contribute to the emergence of economic and social disparities within human societies. 1 Itao, K., & Kaneko, K.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Stacie Johnson Leader of Professional Development at Khan Academy Johnsrud: The World Economic Forum this past year reported that creative thinking is the number-one skill needed across industries globally in the next five years. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection. How would you respond to that?

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Living Geography

JANUARY 22, 2025

World Weather Attribution & @ClimateCentral show these were intensified by human-induced climate change. of human-induced warming, and highlights the urgency of moving away from planet-heating fossil fuels as quickly as possible. Alongside the UN analysis is a report from the World Economic Forum. and break records.

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Nobody else was listening, I could ask any question I needed. In just five months, Smith completed her GED math class.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S. According to historian Benjamin T.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

But tying us down strips our humanity away. Of course, care implies social and human relations between staff and residents. As a societylocal and globalwe must urge on the development of political, economic, legal, social, and moral frameworks that allow us to move towards a culture of care.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Sustainable development ties together concern for the carrying capacity of natural systems with the social, political, and economic challenges faced by humanity (Kahle and Gurel-Atay 2014). Promote sustained inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Technological development should be input effective and not input utilizing.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Among other things, Witness eschatological theology leads them to view all human governments as necessarily under the power of Satandespite the claims of the Zambian government enshrined in the Zambian constitution, for example, that Zambia is a “Christian nation.”

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