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These apes seemed to recognize faces they hadn't seen for many years.

Our closest animal relatives are capable of remembering former groupmates they haven't seen in years, or even decades, researchers report.

Apes can recognize old friends they haven’t seen for decades, according to new research, and it’s the longest-lasting social memory documented outside humans.

Apes can recognise photographs of their friends 26 years after last seeing them, making them the animals with the longest social memory outside of humans, scientists have found.

The full title of this article by Holly Bynoe (for Global Voices) is “St. Vincent & the Grenadines’ Mayreau island is a cultural bastion where — despite challenges — community spirit is alive and adaptive.” Bynoe writes, “[H]olistic empowerment [...] encompasses issues of people, culture and the natural environment.” This is the first instalment of a…

Stephen P. Hanna’s profile on The Conversation

The Tragic Truth About Stalins Aardakh Deportations By Marina Manoukian/March 9, 2021 11:56 pm EDT Aardakh, or the genocide of the Chechen and the Ingush people, is one of the many forced deportations that the Soviet Union enacted against ethnic minorities and indigenous people. The majority of the deportations took just a few weeks as people were forced out of their homes in 1944. Initially, when the soldiers came, people thought it was part of the Red Army celebrations that have occurred si...

How interstate freeways divided the hearts of cities UPDATE How interstate freeways divided the hearts of cities UPDATE The speaker:  Advertisement Hughes is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Arkansas. He’ll talk about how urban renewal projects changed the landscape of American cities, often in tandem with discriminatory urban planning policies. Example we’ve mentioned many times before: Interstate 630 in Little Rock, built between 1964 and 1985 and a stark dividing line by...