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Gathering Firewood—and Redefining Land Stewardship—at Bears Ears

Sapiens

These values rest on the belief that humans are apart from natural systems rather than a part of these systems, creating tensions for federal land managers and residents. But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management.

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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

Sapiens

Farmers planted grains to make traditional dishes such as starchy, mild fufu and thick, warm tuo zaafi , and households stored surplus tubers in their wattle-and-daub homes to nourish them throughout the year. Human history on the continent is full of similar stories of resilience through environmental challenges.

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Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants

Sapiens

An anthropologist unpacks what shifting attitudes toward these birds reveal about humans. But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic. The birds, which looked to me like parrots, were hard to miss.

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The future includes good (human) teachers

The Hechinger Report

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. The future will leave room for human teachers.

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Ancient Human Habitation: New Discoveries from East Timor’s Laili Rock Shelter

Anthropology.net

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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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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Both Humans and Technology Are Noisy: How Do We Move Forward?

Digital Promise

Like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this report was lost in the vast government archives, but I saved a copy and it has influenced the way I currently see efficacy research and behavioral science research writ large. Human beings themselves are innately noisy and variable creatures. Stokes, D.