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Roy Foster on the prize’s history and 2022’s theme: resisting the abuse of political power

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Maine Humanities Council Discussion Project Growing Up Between Cultures Cultural and National Identity First Saturday of the month Beginning February 5 10:30am via Zoom Read your way to spring with Maine Humanities Council’s Discussion...

By Jim Shelton May 6, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Hesperornis image provided by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. (Photo: Robert Lorenz) If paleontologists had a wish list, it would almost certainly include insights into two particular phenomena: how dinosaurs interacted with each other and how they began to fly. The problem is, using fossils to deduce such behavior is a tricky business. But a new, Yale-le...

Sun, 05/02/2021 - 1:38pm -- tim In Shrewsbury, Pierces Store, reopened as a cooperative in 2009, is thriving. Manager Elana Levin was too busy for an interview. Photos by C.B. Hall by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine "If you dont have a store, you cant really have a town," Ripton resident and prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote in a New York Times op-ed three years ago. Its a thought that haunts many Vermont towns, as general stores, long a sine qua non of village economies – ...

For some, home is the house they grew up in. For others, it’s a country or a nation. Some find it in family, or in the arms of a lover, while others believe it’s where we go when we die. Some say home is the “ pale blue dot ” that is our planet, and still others believe it’s only a state of mind. Despite a glorious rooftop view of the Empire State Building, when my rent doubled at the Garment District retail space where I was illegally living, I realized that New York City had become...

Watch: Spring Fling Session at Lower Trestles Featuring all kinds of ripping by folks like Ian Crane, Kevin Schulz, Kade Matson and more Marcus Sanders Link copied to clipboard Vid: Peyton Willard Last week’s Spring Fling saw fun, south-swell waves all over the West Coast. And while it was enjoyed by all kinds of surfers riding all kinds of equipment, as is normally the case, Lower Trestles saw the most high performance action — as evidenced by the shred edit above, featuring folks like Rya...

Australia is a multicultural society. There are different traditions, cultures, accents and languages all over the country. The latest Census data show almost 30 per cent of Australians speak a language other than English, or English and another language, at home. In our latest survey, we have had responses from 281 multilingual families across Australia, who speak a variety of languages at home. They include Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Teo Chew and Spanish. We found many first-generation m...

Copy to clipboard Back Dont be afraid to pass your first language, and accent, to your kids — it could be their superpower Posted by The Conversation | Tuesday 23 February 2021, 12:09 PM (AEDT) Australia is a multicultural society. There are different traditions, cultures, accents and languages all over the country. The latest Census data show almost 30 per cent of Australians speak a language other than English, or English and another language, at home. In our latest survey, we have had r...

From giant parrots and feathered dinosaurs to really old poop and The Bone Wars to the difference between body fossils and trace fossils, here are some fun facts about fossils, adapted from an episode of The List Show on YouTube. 1. A fossil showed that parrots used to be 3 feet tall. In 2019, a paper published in the journal Biology Letters described the fossil of a parrot that lived somewhere around 16 to 19 million years ago. The bones were originally found in 2008, but they were misidentif...