Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This week, we dug into the foundations of the United States government and explored how early laws shaped the country’s growth. EduProtocols were front and center as we kept students engaged and active in their learning: Monday: Introduced The Tier List to rank government systems and used Iron Chef with Padlet to analyze types of governments. Tuesday: Gummy bears turned abstract government concepts into tangible representations, followed by another Tier List ranking activity.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As the legislative election in France approached this summer, a research team decided to reach out to hundreds of citizens to interview them about their views on key issues. But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot. To prepare ChatGPT to take on this role, the researchers started by prompting the AI bot to behave as it has observed professors communicating in its training data.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The Maya civilization is celebrated for its monumental architecture, intricate calendars, and cultural sophistication. However, new research highlights their lesser-known mastery of aquaculture. Archaeologists have uncovered 1 a 4,000-year-old network of fish-trapping channels in Belize's Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary, suggesting early Maya communities engineered entire wetlands to sustain large populations.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As interest in skills-based hiring increases, more and more companies and states are eliminating degree requirements. In response, some higher education institutions are creating microcredential programs that positively impact student success, but you don’t have to create an entirely new program to show your institution’s value. Skills-based credentials are valuable because they state specific skills in which a learner achieved or displayed competence.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens , two of the closest relatives in the human evolutionary story, share a unique distinction: they are the only known hominins to have buried their dead. However, a recent study 1 has uncovered notable differences in how these ancient groups honored their deceased, shedding new light on the cultural and social evolution of early humans.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This is an essential watch. BBC4 showed Merlin Sheldrake' film on the importance of Fungi. The film is narrated by Bjork. It features beautiful photography. Available for a year at least on iPlayer.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

My hike in Paint Gap where Union General George Morgan began his retreat from Cumberland Gap, Kentucky. General Morgan and his 8,600 able men had been had been surrounded by Confederate General Kirby Smith’s Confederate Army when they swept over Cumberland Mountain and invaded Kentucky from Chattanooga. For two weeks and 200 hundred miles, Morgan would elude the Confederates by traveling the rugged trails running across the Eastern Kentucky Mountains until finally reaching the Ohio River a

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Lucian, Fable, and Old Comedy in The Ignorant Book-Collector Jenni Glaser, Bryn Mawr College Information Ar… Fri, 11/22/2024 - 15:33 Session/Panel Title SCS-92: Imperial Greek Literature II Session/Paper Number 92.4 I show how Lucian employs three known elements of Old Comedy–Aesopic or Sybaritic fable, metatheatrical language, and invective–to take down an imagined rival for his pretension in The Ignorant Book-Collector ( Adv.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A groundbreaking study has illuminated how early Europeans adapted to environmental and societal shifts over 7,000 years. Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and UCLA used ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains to identify genetic adaptations that shaped the lives of historical populations. The study, published in Nature Communications 1 , highlights evolutionary signatures that are undetectable in modern genomes, shedding light on survival strategies that shaped early

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Beyond human, yet human nonetheless: how demigods approach death from Uruk to Troy Elena Limongelli, Merton College, University of Oxford Information Ar… Fri, 11/22/2024 - 15:33 Session/Panel Title SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry Session/Paper Number 93.1 The striking similarities between Gilgameš and Achilles have captured scholarly interest for decades (e.g.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Sienna Nordquist , covers the new article by Zachary P. Dickson and Sara B. Hobolt, “Elite Cues and Noncompliance.” Donald Trump is infamous for many things, but one thing he is most well-known for is his controversial social media messages.

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Intonational Patterns and Syntax in Homeric Song: A Case Study of the Iliad Book 24 Thyra-Lilja Altunin, Brasenose College, University of Oxford Information Ar… Fri, 11/22/2024 - 15:33 Session/Panel Title SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry Session/Paper Number 93.2 The connections between language and music, particularly in pitch-accented languages like ancient Greek, have long fascinated scholars (e.g., Schreuder 2006).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

By now, you know about the endless speculation on whether the incoming Trump administration might close the U.S. Department of Education. It remains just that: speculation. Congress would have to be involved, and even a Senate and House controlled by the same party as President-elect Donald Trump would not necessarily go along with this idea. However, in a statement about his nomination of Linda McMahon for education secretary, Trump underscored his campaign pledge to disband the department, say

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Monster-slaying and Monstrous Gods: Changing Standards of Proper Behaviour in the Homeric Hymns to Apollo and Hermes Kieran Vernon, Queen's College, University of Oxford Information Ar… Fri, 11/22/2024 - 15:33 Session/Panel Title SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry Session/Paper Number 93.3 At first glance, the Greek word πέλωρ (pelor) and its derivatives mean simply ‘monster’ and ‘monstrous’, however they have attracted the attention of scholarship

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Secrecy in Homeric Norm-Contravention: The Iliadic Scholia and Shame Culture Charles Baker, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Information Ar… Fri, 11/22/2024 - 15:33 Session/Panel Title SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry Session/Paper Number 93.4 The exegetical scholia to the Iliad work to explain the poem’s complexities to the reader.

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Hospitality Violation in the Odyssey and Astronautilia, a 1990s Ancient Greek sci-fi epic Ben Broadbent, University of Michigan Information Ar… Fri, 11/22/2024 - 15:33 Session/Panel Title SCS-93: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Unconventional Elements in Homeric Poetry Session/Paper Number 93.5 The Astronautilia is a 24-book epic poem composed in Ancient Greek and based on the Odyssey , recounting the far-future voyage through the cosmos by the admiral Oudeis (“No-one”).

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Sex and the Syrinx: Pipe-playing as Sexual and Literary Maturation in Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe Gwendolyn Gibbons, Indiana University Information Ar… Fri, 11/22/2024 - 15:33 Session/Panel Title SCS-92: Imperial Greek Literature II Session/Paper Number 92.5 This paper analyzes Philetas’s lesson to Daphnis and Chloe in Book Two of Longus’s novel and argues that Longus figures pipe-playing as a metaphor for sex.

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