Strange Maps

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The post How My Puppetry Project Supports Indigenous Culture, Disabled Students, and the Environment appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Cultures 135

Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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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Anthropology Pedagogy Humanities Research 130

Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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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Humanities 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Bruna Dalmas is a graduate student in political science at the University of Missouri. Her research focuses on transitional justice mechanisms and their effects on violence in conflicted democracies. Specifically, she investigates how transitional justice can contribute to the organization of security forces, either helping to prevent or potentially exacerbating the escalation of violence, the emergence of paramilitary groups, and the proliferation of drug cartels.

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Political Science Research 50

ASHP CML

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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

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