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The last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the making of the Cold war
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Preserving the positive student outcomes of CUREs through disruption: implications for remote learning
(Elon University, 2022-01-07)We evaluated how faculty adapted course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) to remote instruction and compared student outcomes with CUREs offered in-person in prior semesters. Our findings suggest that partially ... -
Cosmic visions: bridging science and art
(Boston Univeristy, 2021-07-12)Since the dawn of recorded history, stargazing has shaped—and been shaped by—our understanding of the universe and the place of humans within it. Though we tend to conceptualize art and science as separate spheres, the ... -
A concise review of lobster utilization by worldwide human populations from prehistory to the modern era
(OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2015-07-01)Lobsters are important resources throughout the world's oceans, providing food security, employment, and a trading commodity. Whereas marine biologists generally focus on modern impacts of fisheries, here we explore the ... -
The elementary particles of quantum fields
(2021-10-28)The elementary particles of relativistic quantum field theory are not simple field quanta, as has long been assumed. Rather, they supplement quantum fields, on which they depend on but to which they are not reducible, as ... -
Gender reversals in social networks based on prevailing kinship norms in the Mosuo of China
(2021-04-09)Although cooperative social networks are considered key to human evolution, emphasis has usually been placed on the functions of men’s cooperative networks. What do women’s networks look like? Do they differ from men’s ... -
Fiction
(Oxford University Press, 2020-12-20)The most lasting Christmas fiction tends to use Christmas as a setting not as the main subject and to draw from the warmth and sensory onslaught of the holidays and on friends and families gathering, not on the specific ... -
Using evolutionary theory to hypothesize a transition from patriliny to matriliny and back again among the ethnic Mosuo of Southwest China
(International Network for Training, Education, and Research on Culture, 2021-03-12)Transitions to matriliny are said to be relatively rare. This evidence is sometimes used to support arguments that perceive matriliny as a problematic and unstable system of kinship. In this article, we use an evolutionary ... -
The dynamic classroom: using ‘Reacting to the Past’ in active interdisciplinary courses
(2020)Imagine a classroom where a trumpet-playing student leads a march through the halls of their academic building while playing the “Internationale,” or the class walls are covered with student-created propaganda advocating ... -
Penguins and seals transport limiting nutrients between offshore pelagic and coastal regions of Antarctica under changing sea ice
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-11-04)Large animals such as sea birds and marine mammals can transport limiting nutrients between different regions of the ocean, thereby stimulating and enhancing productivity. In Antarctica this process is influenced by formation ...