Anthropology.net
JUNE 11, 2025
Archaeology has always been a discipline of fragments. Potsherds, partial skeletons, stratified soils. But perhaps its most elusive fragments lie in the records themselves—decades, even centuries of illustrations, field notes, and reports scattered across publications and languages. Now, a new AI-assisted tool is poised to reassemble those pieces.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 11, 2025
It was 2 degrees below zero and almost midnight when I arrived at my hotel in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, earlier this year after a treacherous drive on what seemed to be a solid sheet of ice from the closest airport. As I checked in at the front desk, the young woman working that night asked what had brought me to town. I told her I was visiting Scottsbluff Public Schools for an article about inclusion, the practice of teaching children with and without disabilities in the same classroom.
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The Conversation - Politics + Society
JUNE 11, 2025
The debate over banning smartphones in schools rages as more students are bringing phones to schools. Thomas Barwick/DigitalVision via Getty Images In Florida, a bill that bans cellphone use in elementary and middle schools, from bell to bell, recently sailed through the state Legislature. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it into law on May 30, 2025. The same bill calls for high schools in six Florida districts to adopt the ban during the upcoming school year and produce a report on its effectiveness by
Sapiens
JUNE 11, 2025
An archaeologist who studies past farming practices in the north coast of Peru argues these offer models for navigating current climate crises. ✽ SEEING THE NORTH COAST of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts in the world. Parts of the region receive less than an inch of rain in an entire year.
Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education
JUNE 11, 2025
After almost a decade of hands-on workshops and ongoing research, educators share the power of digital storytelling as an approach that makes learning more personal, emotional, and impactful
Anthropology.net
JUNE 11, 2025
A Place for the Ancestors In a clearing not far from the ceremonial heart of Ceibal—one of the oldest known monumental centers in the Maya lowlands—archaeologists have uncovered something unexpected: a cemetery. Not a scattering of isolated burials, but a coherent mortuary landscape that predates the city’s famous pyramids and plazas.
Political Science Now
JUNE 11, 2025
Claire Hazbun is a PhD student in comparative government and a Patrick Healy Graduate Fellow at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on political violence, identity politics, democracy and elections, and African politics. Prior to starting her PhD, she spent several years working for a democracy and governance NGO in Washington, DC, initially on the Ethiopia portfolio and later in evaluation and research.
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Political Science Now
JUNE 11, 2025
When Do Mass Labor Strikes Reshape the Public? New Findings and a Research Agenda for Political Science By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez , Columbia University I consider the role of exposure to large-scale strikes in shaping preferences about workplace action and labor unions, replicating and extending past work identifying the effect of large-scale teachers’ strikes.
Anthropology.net
JUNE 11, 2025
In the humid wetlands of the Lower Yangtze, a quiet transition was underway some 8,000 years ago. Before formal pens, before selective breeding, before the clear skeletal signs of domestication, wild boars were already forging an uneasy alliance with humans. And the clues to this early intimacy are not in bones or buildings, but in the fossilized plaque on ancient pig teeth.
Digital Promise
JUNE 11, 2025
More than 100 community leaders gather to explore innovative solutions for strengthening education-to-workforce pathways
Anthropology.net
JUNE 11, 2025
The Wheel Was Not Born in a Day The wheel looms large in the popular imagination as a spark of genius—perhaps the defining artifact of early human ingenuity. But how, exactly, does such a revolutionary device come into being? A new study 1 , led by aerospace engineers and historians, turns this question into a forensic design problem. Instead of speculating in broad strokes, researchers Lee Alacoque, Richard Bulliet, and Kai James used computational simulations to reconstruct the physical
Marginal Revolution
JUNE 11, 2025
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is an introduction to Any Austin: Any Austin has carved a unique niche for himself on YouTube: analyzing seemingly mundane or otherwise overlooked details in video games with the seriousness of an art critic examining Renaissance sculptures. With millions of viewers hanging on his every word about fluvial flows in Breath of the Wild or unemployment rates in the towns of Skyrim , Austin has become what Tyler calls “the very best in the world at t
Living Geography
JUNE 11, 2025
Applications are now welcome to become a UCL Fawcett Fellow for 2025-6. I was proud to be a Fawcett Fellow for 2022-3, working with Alex Standish and my fellow Fellows to discuss curriculum. It formed the basis for a presentation I prepared for the IGU Centenary conference in Paris and there is also (potentially) a book coming out in the next year or so with a chapter based on my research.
Marginal Revolution
JUNE 11, 2025
Axios : Two grandsons of Walmart founder Sam Walton plan to launch a private university focused on science and tech, located on the company’s old HQ campus near downtown Bentonville, Arkansas. … The future university plans to offer innovative, flexible pathways to jobs in automation, logistics, biotech and computing — fields crucial to Northwest Arkansas’ future.
Living Geography
JUNE 11, 2025
Another term-time Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday. The weather is warming up ahead of a fieldtrip to the coast tomorrow. Writing continues too - onto two more chapters for books on two more different topics. Substack #23 was also published today. Please subscribe and share it with your various networks to help grow the audience.
Marginal Revolution
JUNE 11, 2025
1. Jon Hartley on inferring multipliers from share price data. 2. Kevin Kelly’s calendar of Asian festivals. 3. Whale vowels are like human vowels? This link too. 4. Economic task replacement potential. And I asked o3 pro to do an 800-word column as I would write it. Not perfect, for instance there is one clear error about unemployment rates, but in general very good and with some touch-up better than what I would have written.
The Conversation - Politics + Society
JUNE 11, 2025
President Donald Trump signs an executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing in women's or girls sporting events on Feb. 5, 2025, in Washington. AP Photo/Alex Brandon Since becoming president, Donald Trump has aggressively sought to fulfill his campaign promise to reverse the Biden administration’s protection of transgender Americans.
Marginal Revolution
JUNE 11, 2025
One of the true all-time greats. Try this one too. And here is the NYT obituary. The post The great Brian Wilson has passed from the scene appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
The Conversation - Politics + Society
JUNE 11, 2025
A statue of Christopher Columbus, toppled by protesters, is loaded onto a truck on the grounds of the state capitol on June 10, 2020, in St Paul, Minn. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Recently, President Donald Trump declared that he is “bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.” He hopes to make up for the removal of commemorative statues important to “the Italians that love him so much.
Living Geography
JUNE 11, 2025
David Attenborough's new film is out in cinemas. The book is at a good price in Tesco supermarkets at the moment for those who may want to get a copy for their departmental library.
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