Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Before the soft-footed, domesticated Felis catus found its way into Chinese homes, another feline species occupied human settlements for thousands of years. A new genetic and archaeological study 1 has revealed that leopard cats ( Prionailurus bengalensis ), small wild felines native to East Asia, lived alongside people in China’s early agrarian societies for at least 3,500 years—only to disappear from human settlements centuries before the arrival of domestic cats via the Silk Road.

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Living Geography

MARCH 13, 2025

More than 100 000 has been awarded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to help safeguard the future of one of the UK's oldest and most important heritage trees - The Great London Plane of Ely! Image: Alan Parkinson, shared on Flickr under CC license I am lucky to be able to walk through the Old Palace gardens whenever I want, and standing in the garden is a huge London plane tree.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Three million years ago on the East African plains, a tense scene might have played out. A group of Australopithecus afarensis —small, upright-walking hominins—gathers around a carcass, quickly slicing off scraps of meat with sharpened stones. Their actions do not go unnoticed. From the tall grass, a Homotherium —a scimitar-toothed cat—lurks, poised to charge.

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Living Geography

MARCH 13, 2025

An Opinion piece by Tim Lang (who developed the idea of food miles amogst other things) in The Guardian. He reminds us of our unpreparedness when it comes to food security. We just assume the food will keep arriving. But our food systems faces many threats: Think energy outages, ransomware attacks, AI/bot attacks, internet failure, chokepoints and trade disruption.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 13, 2025

Who Is Perceived as Deserving? How Social Identities Shape Attitudes about Disaster Assistance in the United States By Constance Duncombe , The University of Queensland , Stfanie von Hlatky , The University of Queensland, Fernando G. Nuez-Mietz , McGill University, Maria Rost Rublee , University of Melbourne , and Stephen M. Saideman , Carleton University Although much research confirms a gender gap in political science and its subfields internationally, only recently have scholars analyzed coun

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Living Geography

MARCH 13, 2025

A job opportunity for you to work at my school. A part-time maternity cover teaching Geography in Kings Ely Senior school is currently available from September. This would involve Deadline to apply is 19th of March. Details are here. Happy to answer any questions. The post is part time to cover maternity leave for the whole of the 2025/26 academic year.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2025

The post Students: Apply for $500 to Expand or Amplify Your Project appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2025

The post Quality Assurance Across States: How a Standard Supports Learners appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

MARCH 13, 2025

Since winning the youth civic solutions competition, these six young people have made progress on their civic engagement work.

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Living Geography

MARCH 13, 2025

This New Yorker cartoon by Paul Noth has an obvious connection with the current situation in the country.

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Hayward "Blah, Blah, Blah" Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

In the coming days, we all will get a lesson on the meaning of the 14th Amendment, Section 1. This will be entirely because of the Trump Administration's appeal to the Supreme Court regarding the injunctions put on his Executive Order on "Brithright Citizenship".AMENDMENT XIVSection 1.

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