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Ancient Instincts, Modern Power Struggles: How Evolution Still Shapes Human Society

Anthropology.net

Human societies are built on layers of culture, law, and technology, yet beneath it all, some of the oldest instincts in the animal kingdom continue to shape our world. In A New Approach to Human Social Evolution 1 , neuroscientist and anthropologist Jorge A. At its core, the human brain retains an ancient architecture.

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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

The Hechinger Report

Or students in a human behavior class applying what they’ve learned to encourage cafeteria visitors to waste less food. Oil and gas companies and their affiliated foundations finance climate and energy research, sit on university governance boards and host student-recruitment events on campus, the report notes. Sign up here.

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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

ED Surge

At the Human Computing Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, McLaren develops digital learning games to study how effective they are in the classroom and beyond. We would describe it in much more research-based and humane ways, Kalinec-Craig added. One such game is called Decimal Point.

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CFP: 1st International Graduate Conference (Classical Association of Ghana)

Society for Classical Studies

Agency, freewill, and vice Political corruption Epistemic Injustice Bad laws and governance The phenomenology of hate Thucydides on the origin of stasis and polemos Hubris and Apotheosis The psychology of evil Greek tragedy and vice (e.g., God, humans, and the limits of piety and reason (e.g.

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‘A drastic experiment in progress’: How will coronavirus change our kids?

The Hechinger Report

Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection. James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. and Natalie Reid Dorn professor of human development at the University of California-Davis.

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 The low success rate for new ideas is “psychologically disappointing,” said Barbara Goodson, lead author of the report and an expert in educational research at the consulting firm Abt Global. The failure rate was 74 percent.

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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

Teaching Anthropology

Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. Human hygiene is taken as an example. Wall signs and foot markers materialized in a thrice.