Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by EVERFI and Today by Studyo We are living in a time when a segment of the population is working as hard as it can to keep our students ignorant of history. Dozens of states are attempting to erase history from textbooks […]
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Report reveals opportunities for new era of patron-centered library services
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Lean Library today released “Librarian Futures,” a white paper based on a large-scale survey of 4,000 librarians and patrons that examines librarian-patron workflows and relationships. The report finds that while patrons are unaware of the full extent of librarian support (with 77% beginning research discovery outside […]
Home schooling through online teaching in the era of COVID-19: Exploring the role of home-related factors that deepen educational inequalities across European societies
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Perseverance Has Landed! Mars Rover Begins a New Era of Exploration
Humanity’s on-once again, off-again exploration of Mars has lived through its most up-to-date make-or-crack second, and experts close to the planet are respiratory sighs of aid. Shortly after 3:44 P.M. Eastern time currently, a customer from Earth fell from a obvious, chilly Martian sky into a 3.5-billion-12 months outdated, 50-kilometer-huge bowl […]
A new archaeology for the Anthropocene era
Impression: Archaeological experiments of very low-density, agrarian-dependent metropolitan areas these as historic Angkor Wat in Cambodia are increasingly remaining employed to notify the progress of far more sustainable urban centres in the future…. see more Credit history: Alison Crowther Indiana Jones and Lara Croft have a lot to response for. Public […]
Prehistoric artifacts suggest a neolithic era independently developed in New Guinea
New artifacts uncovered at the Waim archaeological web-site in the highlands of New Guinea – including a fragment of the earliest symbolic stone carving in Oceania – illustrate a shift in human habits involving 5050 and 4200 several years in the past in reaction to the widespread emergence of agriculture, […]