Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Lemuria, the ancestral home of humanity? In 1870, German biologist Ernst Haeckel suggested that Lemuria could be the ancestral home of humanity, as a way of explaining “missing links” in the fossil record of early humans. Interbreeding with animals eventually produced ape-like ancestors to some of the human races.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Corporations and governments alike now routinely create, purchase, and exchange user data—and not just in the Global North. PC Magazine concisely defines user data as “any data a user creates or owns,” but this flaunts the crux of user data’s ethical quagmire: to what extent do any users own their data?

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

DECEMBER 3, 2017

I have my students use magazines and newspapers to create a collage. After teaching about goods and services, I begin teaching about productive resources: human resources, natural resources, and capital resources. I start by teaching about human resources, which is a fairly easy concept for students to understand.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Orbital Path : Hosted by Dr. Michelle Thaller, it explores the cosmos, space exploration, and humanity’s place in the universe. All in the Mind Lynn Malcolm hosts this excellent (and award-winning) show that is entirely centered on stories about the human brain, touching on fields like psychology, neurology, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2018

The United States is lagging behind other wealthy nations when it comes to preparing students for workforce changes wrought by automation, according to a new study by a research group affiliated with The Economist magazine. Those that are have long had a clear focus on human capital development.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lincoln University of Missouri where I regularly teach courses on American National Government, American State and Local Government, Public Policy and Administration, and Research Methodology. Can you tell us about your professional background and your research?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Brown had first contacted Sabeti a couple years earlier, after reading her Time magazine profile to his science-loving daughter, then 6 years old. “We At the time, one of the Sabeti Lab projects was developing models of disease spread that better accounted for the X factor of real human behavior. The student engagement was so strong.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. 2022) and teaches courses on the World Wars and Modern America for the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University. How about a document on the 1920s? Held, John, Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

I was beyond shocked that somebody from our state government was asking what books were available in our school libraries. The five members of the school board who voted to ban the book did not have children in any public schools governed by the district. “I was actually at home. My superintendent forwarded it to me.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 16, 2024

I didnt know they had their own governance structures and bylaws. Over the years, I have come to understand what these divisions are, what they do, how they are governed, and, in fact, found not just one but two intellectual communities for myself! I mean, I wasnt totally clueless. But I couldnt really tell you anything about them.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” government. 972 Magazine is an independent magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. This dehumanization fuels violence and oppression.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. Sign up for our newsletter. Or view the whole series. Still, the U.S. percent of GDP – amount the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

When the government-backed Home Owner’s Loan Corporation developed color-coded maps to sort out who could receive mortgage lending, blacks who lived in the red sections of the map were not given loans. “In the end, parents’ and students’ opinions are the only ones that matter. And every year, more parents are choosing charter schools.”.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Rather than trumpeting the cause of self-government, Douglas’s doctrine of popular sovereignty was its death knell. Only adherence to the self-evident truth that all human beings were equal could save popular sovereignty—self-government—for all. Composite image of Abraham Lincoln (left) and Stephen A.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Despite all his struggles emotionally, he remained on track academically. Newsweek magazine dubbed the city “ Murder Town USA ” in 2014. Related: Governments are spending billions more on education, and it’s making inequality worse. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This directive would have affected about 75,000 people found mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs, according to an analysis by Fortune magazine. Leave this field empty if you're human: Thousands of students took to Twitter to organize a national walkout on the anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting on April 20.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2016

The House budget would also eliminate a subsidy under which the federal government covers the interest on Stafford loans for lower-income students while they are enrolled in school. The Committee for Education Funding says that cut would add up to $27 billion over 10 years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The mural, which stretches the length of a football field, intersperses student artwork with text from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was inspired by a group of eighth graders who, in December 2012, just months after Yousafzai’s shooting, had attended a human rights conference in Canada.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I am co-facilitating today’s class with high school teacher, Prentiss Charney Fellow , and great all around human being, T. And so every child today gets taught that modern slavery is human trafficking, it’s a crime against humanity. Whitaker, who has been part of this series for a long time. It’s good to have you with us.

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