Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

A Fossil That Changed Everything In 1924, a small, fossilized skull was unearthed from a limestone quarry in South Africa. The skull belonged to a juvenile hominin—a species previously unknown to science. Raymond Dart, an ambitious anatomist, carefully extracted it from the matrix and, in a 1925 Nature 1 paper, named it Australopithecus africanus , or "the southern ape of Africa"​ Three-part cast of the Taung Child skull, a 2.1 million-year-old Australopithecus africanus fossil from

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Tom Martin is the exquisite host of “Eastern Standard,” a Public Radio program broadcast every Thursday and Sunday across the Eastern half of Kentucky. On its website it is described as “… a WEKU radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places and events happening in central and Appalachian Kentucky.” Here is the link to my most recent Journey Log in my Surrounding Series.

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All Things Pedagogical

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

This may be a bit of a shorter post this week because this is a topic that I have discussed on this blog time and again, but I find myself compelled to give space to reflection on what academic associations do and do not do for us (mostly the last part). It is that time of the year where calls for papers go out for conferences that happen in summer and people scramble to get abstracts in and then they of course extend the date by a week or so (every time, or extend it three times because they do

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Hi, everyone. This week Im bringing you a dispatch from the Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit, hosted by the group Second Nature, where the Trump administrations efforts to undo environmental action were very much top of mind. Thanks for reading. Caroline Preston WASHINGTON Federal dollars for clean energy are disappearing. Environmental offices across the federal government are being dismantled.

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