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There was a time when the Indigenous women of the Pacific Northwest’s coastal regions paddled their canoes to small, rocky islands once a day or so to care for packs of small white-furred dogs. The dogs would greet them, yelping and pawing as they implored their keepers for food. The women, in turn, would pet the dogs and dispense a stew of fish and marine mammal bits not scraps, but quality food. Once the dogs (most of them perhaps females, probably in heat) had eaten their fill, the women might linger awhile to sing to them and brush their long white fur. The dogs and their fur were the women’s source of wealth, and the women kept watch to ensure that no village cur crept onto the islands to taint the breed.
Few years ago, a popular mobile game Pokémon Go that conquered the world has made augmented reality (AR) technology widely known. Today, AR is not limited to entertainment, but also extends to medical, retail, training, and education. Among them, the AR application in education is flourishing, it is becoming a major trend in teaching.
The attractiveness of AR teaching is that the content can be presented in lifelike 3D images, making some boring content lively and intriguing, thus, arousing learning interest and reinforcing students memory. According to a study in the United Kingdom, human’s brain memory responds differently to AR and non-AR tasks. Humans’ memory of information related to AR tasks is 70% more intense than general non-AR content. Meanwhile, human’s brain participation, left and right brain attention, and emotional response intensity also perform better in AR tasks.
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This fossilized dinosaur head and vertebrae were discovered in 1883 but only recently gained its name,
Smitanosaurus agilis. (Smithsonian)
The Wild West of the 1800s was a place of hidden treasure. In the 1840s, people swarmed the land looking to make their fortune in gold. Then, in the late 1870s, paleontologists began searching for a different kind of valuable: dinosaur fossils.
Eventually, many of these fossils made their way to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as part of the museum s paleobiology collection. Some of the specimens have been properly identified. Others are still enigmas.
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