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New Genetic Research Explores the Role of Plague in the Neolithic Population Decline of Scandinavia

Anthropology.net

Approximately 5,300 years ago, the populations of Scandinavia and northwestern Europe faced a significant collapse. Settlements were abandoned, and farming communities disappeared. The cause of this demographic shift has puzzled scholars, with theories ranging from agricultural crises to conflicts. However, recent genetic research published in Nature 1 offers another possibility: the ancient plague bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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King's Cross - the future of London?

Living Geography

“It’s actually quite a frightening place.” Tony Blair, 1997 King's Cross has been going through a long-term transformation. If you come out of the station and turn right you can make your way up towards Coal Drops Yard and the new location for Central St. Martins - where my wife studied when it was in its 'proper' location on Long Acre. A recent article in The Economist looks at the development that has taken place north of King's Cross.

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Floodings in Spain

O-Level Geography

Flooding had resulted in 95 deaths in Spain. What are the other impacts of the flooding? How does extreme weather resulting the flooding in Spain?

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Making Space for Sand

Living Geography

Making Space for Sand is a project which has been working in Cornwall for several years now. It has been focussed on protecting the coastline and introducing some projects which are well advanced and are protecting communities in a sustainabe way. Take a look, particularly if you teach down in the part of the world.

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Students Call for Hands-On Civic Education to Prepare Them for Democracy

ED Surge

The victory was bittersweet. Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. It was a role Ta was eager to build on, having helped to write and lobby for a statewide bill that sought to put a student board member in each Kentucky school district.

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Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats’ New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of Redistribution

Political Science Now

Bridging the Blue Divide: The Democrats’ New Metro Coalition and the Unexpected Prominence of Redistribution By Jacob S. Hacker , Yale University , Amelia Malpas , Harvard University, Paul Pierson, University of California, Berkeley , and Sam Zacher, Yale University The electoral base of the Democratic Party has been transformed over the past generation.