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Students view and describe Roman technological innovations and analyze how technology helped the Romans control a growing empire. 
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A new replica of the stunning Lascaux cave paintings was unveiled Saturday in the Dordogne region of southwest France, more than seven decades after th
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An exploration of the revolutionary period of prehistory that began when humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering existence they had known fo
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In this video we'll introduce you to some aspects of the Toulmin Method, named after the British Philosopher Stephen Toulmin. The idea is that a typica
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You didn't cause the fires, but you can help prevent them spreading.
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Published on Aug 27, 2019 Via Andrew van Zyl
Abdiel Avelar's curator insight,
August 28, 2019 11:14 PM
this scoop is about the current fires in the amazon and how it can cause disastrous climate change impacts. This is an important global issue because not only does the amazon provide 20% of the oxygen in the world, but the burning of this immense piece of land is putting millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere decreasing the rate of biodiversity and destroying ecosystems.
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New laws under consideration will likely spark more tree-cutting − despite serious drought already contributing to a big increase in vast destructive fires. Of last year's fires, 8,000 occurred in the central region, where the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia share borders. This area, which encroaches on the cerrado, a vast tropical savanna ecoregion that is one of Brazil’s most threatened biomes, has become a fast-developing new agricultural powerhouse, producing soy, maize and cotton.
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GR: Toxic wastes, global warming, livestock grazing, and farming are eliminating forests, shrublands, grasslands, and soils. The losses are heartbreaking. The realization that instead of slowing or stopping the losses is accelerating is dumbfounding.
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“Number of blazes has almost doubled compared with last year, satellite data show”
Via Antonios Bouris
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Atolls begin as an underwater volcanoes called seamounts. Over time and many eruptions the seamount grows until it rises above the water and becomes a
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A simple strategy encourages students to give their full attention when listening to others. Via Dr. Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Jim Lerman
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There’s no easy explanation for the $150 million the state has to pay each year, on average, until 2038. But the decision to ignore financial advice in the 1990s played a major part.
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Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
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Fourth in a series of videos from Khan Academy and 23andMe that introduces human prehistory, this video describes how agriculture changed human societie
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An exploration of the revolutionary period of prehistory that began when humans abandoned the nomadic hunting and gathering existence they had known fo
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It’s not unusual for name-change proposals to become morally complicated, if not outright controversial.
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If the Amazon rainforest functions as our planet's lungs, what do raging wildfires threaten? An atmospheric scientist explains why the fires, though devastating, won't suffocate life on Earth.
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Brazil said on Tuesday it was ready to accept foreign aid to help fight fires in the Amazon but only if it could determine how it was spent, in an apparent attempt to smooth over a public spat between the Brazilian and French presidents.
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Credit: Global Fire Emissions Database Pollution from the controlled fires that burn across Brazil's São Paulo state during the sugarcane-harvesting season has a negative impact on infant heal.. https://bioengineer.org/agricultural-fires-in-brazil-harm-infant-health-a-warning-for-the-developing-world/
Via Bioengineering
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When you look in a mirror, the face you see is the result of millions of years of human evolution. Here's an interview with an expert discussing how and why our modern human faces evolved to look as they do today.
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In this video I dress a distaff with flax and spin the flax on an in-hand spindle. https://josefinwaltinspinner.teachable.com Do you like my videos? Becom
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"Educators in many disciplines may be interested in Developing Evidence-Based Arguments from Texts, a strategy guide from ReadWriteThink. Constructing a logical and well-supported argument is one of the fundamental skills needed to write a successful paper and it is something that many students struggle with when learning how to write. This strategy guide is intended for use with students in grades 6-12, but instructors and teaching assistants at the undergraduate level may also find helpful teaching tips here. It includes multiple suggestions for explaining the difference between argument and persuasion, as well as downloadable handouts, links to sample essays for illustration, and links to related ReadWriteThink resources. This strategy guide was published by the National Council of Teachers of English and authored by Scott Filkins, a high school English and math teacher in Champaign, Illinois." Via Jim Lerman
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No Sex For Fish (2015): Sex for fish, popularly referred to as Jaboya, is a phenomenon in which women are forced to have sex to buy fish. In Kisumu i
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