Mon.Jan 20, 2025

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Writing notes instead of typing pits scholars against each other

The Hechinger Report

Imagine youre a student in high school or college. Class is about to start. You are faced with a notable dilemma: Should you whip out a notebook or a laptop to take notes? The answer is not so simple. A year ago, paper and pen seemed to be the winner when the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a Norwegian study that documented how different areas of the brain were communicating more frequently when students were writing by hand.

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An Order for My Backpack and Three Stages of Nowhere

Sapiens

A poet moves through rituals of silence and erasure that permeate the U.S. military prison at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba. An Order for My Backpack and Three Stages of Nowhere are part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through. Read the introduction to the collection here. An Order for My Backpack For the Public Affairs Officer at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba; July 9, 2016 This is my watch, this is my phone, this is my application for this visit, approved & blameless in a clear folder.

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OPINION: College is worth it for most students, but its benefits are not equitable

The Hechinger Report

Earning a college education can be the gateway to a brighter future with greater earning potential, improved career options and a strong sense of well-being for graduates. These benefits dont just impact graduates they ripple through families and communities, strengthening our society as a whole. But today only 36 percent of Americans express high confidence in higher education, according to recent polling.

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Bybee Master Potters

Life and Landscapes

BYBEE MASTER POTTERS It began two million years ago. Actually, much earlier, if you consider the pallet upon which it was drawn. For Kentucky is an old place, with ancient stone levels laid one upon another like a layer cake of nature, ready for your inspection, as the streams of erosion slice out sections. In the middle of Kentucky, between the cities of Richmond and Irvine, is the land where the “Bluegrass Kisses the Mountains.” And just as importantly, for the importance of this s

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Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans’ Support for Refugees

Political Science Now

Climate, Conflict, and Context: Reevaluating Americans Support for Refugees By Nazita Lajevardi , Michigan State University , Tarah Williams , Allegheny College , Evan Stewart , University of MassachusettsBoston , and Roy Whitaker , San Diego State University As more people are displaced by climate change, public acceptance of migrants is an increasingly relevant geographical and political issue.

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Norfolk Coastal task force

Living Geography

Norfolk is at risk of coastal erosion. A coastal task force is apparently being created to explore the best options for saving homes at Hemsby, where homes in the dunes have been lost regularly for some years. The BBC had a feature last week on a related story of Briony Nierop Reading. She lost her house in Happisburgh after the storm surge of December 2013.

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Meet DFP Fall Fellow, David Gregory, California State University, Chico

Political Science Now

David Gregory is a graduate student in political science at California State University, Chico, where he is completing his MA with a focus on Indigenous representation and systemic inequities in political science. A member of the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, Davids research integrates Tribal Critical Race Theory to examine the political and legal harms of Indigenous erasure, aiming to diversify curricula and inform equitable public policies.

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Where on Earth?

Living Geography

My Orbital SoW is taking shape - just as well really as I'm talking about it at a conference in less than a week's time. This is a quiz which is located at Schiphol airport. It's been developed by the European Space Agency. The idea is that travellers scan the QR code on the posters, and are taken to an image of a mystery location from space. Also check out the esri WorldView extension for Chrome , which gives you a new random location each time you open a browser window.

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