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The mountains where Neanderthals forever changed human genetics

Strange Maps

The genomes of most modern humans contain up to 4% Neanderthal DNA. Scientists have now determined where much of that exchange likely happened: the Zagros Mountains in Iran. Around 28,000 years ago, give or take a millennium or two, the Neanderthals let out their last breath. The deathbed of our cousin species may have been Gibraltar. The natural fortress, pinned to southern Spain’s Mediterranean coast, was one of the final refuges of the Neanderthals.

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How My Puppetry Project Supports Indigenous Culture, Disabled Students, and the Environment

Digital Promise

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Caroline Garaway

Teaching Anthropology

Editor Caroline is Professor of Human Ecology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. As an environmental anthropologist, her research interests focus on political ecological approaches to studying livelihoods of small-scale fishers, and fisher/farmer populations in floodplain/estuarine environments, in the Mekong Basin, East Africa and the UK (Thames Estuary).

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How To Make Someone Not Hate Math

ED Surge

Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored. A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. His students had watched the effects of his disease creep across his body. At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him.

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Caroline Garaway

Teaching Anthropology

Editor Caroline is Professor of Human Ecology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. As an environmental anthropologist, her research interests focus on political ecological approaches to studying livelihoods of small-scale fishers, and fisher/farmer populations in floodplain/estuarine environments, in the Mekong Basin, East Africa and the UK (Thames Estuary).

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Lucifer in our Skies!

Life and Landscapes

LUCIFER IN OUR SKIES ! But not always. And why not? Because that planet moves around! Venus is inferior to us, the second large object from the sun inside our orbit. It is very similar in size and shape to our Earth. But hotter. Very hot. Maybe that is why it was named for the mythical Roman goddess of love, Venus [or Aphrodite in Greece]. Passionate heat.

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Why thousands of Philly families are switching to cyber charter school

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced by Chalkbeat and reprinted with permission. Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter. Sameerah Abdullah sends her three school-aged kids to a cyber charter school for some of the same familiar reasons that other families across the nation do, including the flexibility and personalization. For financial literacy class, they go to the bank to open an account.

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CFP: The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of South Florida

Society for Classical Studies

CFP: The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of South Florida kskordal Thu, 10/03/2024 - 08:18 Image The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of South Florida Ancient Greek Writing Genres April 25-27, 2025 This conferences is designed to explore the role of genre in ancient Greek writing in an interdisciplinary setting.

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We Love to Have Interns!

ASHP CML

This summer, undergraduate students from Brooklyn College, Columbia University, and Florida International University contributed to ASHP, assisting with research, creating social media posts, and developing new content for SHEC. We love the creative ideas and energy that students bring to ASHP and are proud of the work they help to produce. If you – or people that you know – are looking for an opportunity to conduct historical research or to share it publicly through educational and