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Climate Change and Prehistoric Populations: Insights from Europe's Final Paleolithic

Anthropology.net

The end of the last Ice Age, spanning approximately 14,000 to 11,600 years ago, was a period of significant climatic fluctuations that profoundly influenced human populations in Europe. A recent study published in PLOS One 1 by a team of 25 archaeologists from various European institutions offers a comprehensive analysis of how these prehistoric hunter-gatherer communities responded to environmental changes during the Final Paleolithic.​ The map shows population shifts from south-western t

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Better Design Might Be the Next Frontier in Getting Students Back to Campus

ED Surge

As designers drew up plans to revitalize the visual arts complex at California State University, Fullerton, they hoped to create a space that would encourage students to stay on campus as much as possible. Many of Fullertons students commute to campus from home. That means they need comfortable places to do homework, meet with professors or talk to classmates.

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When Calls for Vengeance Go Online

Sapiens

An anthropologist reckons with how digital media has changed youth gang culture dynamicsand what can be done to combat the spread of deadly rumors. In 2019, Luis Alberto Quionez who everyone called Sitowas shot dead in San Francisco when he was 19. A distant relative by marriage, Sito would not have considered me a part of his life. But in death, he has become a part of mine.

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Streamlining Feedback to Teachers with Observation Copilot (Via Transformative Principal Podcast)

Edthena

In the news In a recent episode of the Transformative Principal podcast , host Jethro Jones sat down with Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller to explore a major challenge facing school leaders: giving timely, high-quality feedback to teachers after classroom observations. Enter Observation Copilot , a new tool that instantly turns a principals raw observation notes into framework-aligned feedback that’s ready for editing and sharing with teachers, saving valuable time without sacrificing t

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Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability

Political Science Now

Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability By Tara Slough, New York University In many theories of electoral accountability, voters learn about an incumbents quality by observing public goods outcomes. But empirical findings are mixed, suggesting that increasing the visibility of these outcomes only sometimes improves accountability. I reconcile these heterogeneous findings by highlighting bureaucrats role in the production of public goods.

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Impact of recent earthquakes on Tourism

O-Level Geography

How does the recent earthquakes at Myanmar (28 Mar) and Japan (2nd April) affect tourism?

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Making the Case for Sociology: A Practical Guide for Students

Norton Learning - Sociology

Lisa Wade is a professor at Tulane University with appointments in Sociology, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Newcomb Institute. Shes the author of Terrible Magnificent Sociology and American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus.

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The Great Saltpetre Cave in Rockcastle County, Kentucky

Life and Landscapes

The Great Saltpetre Cave in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Reggie Van Stockum at the July, 2022, Karst-O-Rama! click on the Vimeo link if the video doesn’t come immediately up: The Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at: www.vanstockum.blog/lookin Also find me at: www.facebook.com/reggievanstockum www.instagram.com/reggievanstockum www.vimeo.com/reggievanstockum www.youtube.com @reggievanstockum1097 www.tiktok.com/@reggiesrealm Threads @reggievanstockum Bluesky @reggiesrealm.bsky.social Vimeo

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The Ghost of Silence

Anthropology News

The Ghost of Silence is not an apparition that appears suddenlyhe has always been there, a truth teetering at the edges of my life. He is the shadow cast by my brothers quietude, the echo of words unspoken, the specter lingering between his laughter, stretching endlessly. He watches as my brothers words fade, not abruptly but like a tide receding so slowly that only in hindsight do I realize the shore is empty.

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APSA 2025 DDRIG Program Q&A: Virtual Workshop Series: APSA Status Committee on Graduate Students in the Profession

Political Science Now

APSA 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG): Q&A Tuesday, April 8, 2025 3:00 4:00 p.m. Eastern | Register Here Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for a virtual workshop featuring APSAs DDRIG program manager and past recipients of the award. The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) project provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science.

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Tech Groups Have Long Encouraged Girls to Pursue STEM. Could the Anti-DEI Wave End That?

ED Surge

Growing up in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, Anushay Anjum loved school but was especially enamored with the sciences. Biology, physics, chemistry, information technology she enjoyed them all and had her sights set on a career in engineering. But Anjum also felt the drag of discouragement in a society that, as she describes it, as one where the conventional wisdom deemed health care a discipline focused on caregiving as the only acceptable field for women within science, technology, engi

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Homeward Bound

Anthropology News

One evening in early 2023, my family and I drove to our local airport to meet Margaret, an animal rescue volunteer, and Bella, the hound that Margaret was transferring between the Mexican animal rescue for which she volunteered and the American animal rescue for which we volunteered. When we arrived at our meeting point in the baggage claim area, Margaret was chatting with Lydia, a volunteer with a third rescue who was waiting for Hans, the second dog that Margaret was bringing.

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Tribal colleges win reprieve from federal staff cuts

The Hechinger Report

After weeks of uncertainty, two tribal colleges have been told they can hire back all employees who were laid off as part of the Trump administrations deep cuts across the federal workforce in February, part of a judge’s order restoring some federal employees whose positions were terminated. Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, widely known as SIPI, in New Mexico lost about 70 employees in mid-February amid widespread staffing cuts to f