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Daryl Bambic

Planet of the Apemen: Battle for Earth | Watch Free Documentary Online - 0 views

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    Why homo sapiens survived and the other hominids did not.
Daryl Bambic

2012: End of the World Perceptions and Myths CyArk - 0 views

  • adily fueled by our market economy, in which countless vendors have rushed to fuel the flames of fear in order to sell survivalist goods such as dry food rations, duct tape, firearms, and plastic sheeting - all strongly echoic of the y2k scare less of than a decade ago
  • pecific time frame in our
  • eschatology
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  • n era of our present world comes to an end and experiences a renewal of some sort
  • Norsemen
  • Ragnarok,
  • entire world is temporarily flooded and only two humans survive to repopulate a renewed planet
  • Hopi Indians
  • on-Hopi ways
  • shamans
  • panish Conquistadores
  • creator spirit Maasaw
  • concepts of creation, destruction, and renewa
  • Hinduism
  • Hinduism
  • Shiva,
  • Robert Oppenheimer
  • atomic bomb,
  • Abrahamist religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) deal with Armageddon and the Last Judgement of all human souls by God, and also tell the story of Noah's Ark
  • awm al-Qiyamah (Day of Resurrection)
  • nd the Book of Daniel's
  • Revelation
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    comparative myths of the end of time
Daryl Bambic

NOVA | The Nurture of Nature - 0 views

  • Harvard naturalist E. O. Wilson published his seminal Sociobiology in 1975. The book unleashed a heated debate over whether social behaviors such as altruism or aggression could have a genetic basis, a controversy that helped spur the now vigorous research into such mysteries.
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      This is the 'founder' of the very controversial sociobiology theory of human behaviour.
kelsey sazant

BBC News - Did the discovery of cooking make us human? - 0 views

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      Am example of how cooking helped us become human is not only an evolutionary aspect but also socially. 
  • "Our ancestors most probably dropped food in fire accidently. They would have found it was delicious and that set us off on a whole new direction."
  • Erectus also had a similar body shape to us. Shorter arms and longer legs appeared, and gone was the large vegetable-processing gut, meaning that Erectus could not only walk upright, but could also run.
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  • So being human might all be down to energy.
  • Cooking is essentially a form of pre-digestion, which has transferred energy use from our guts to our brains.
kelsey sazant

Cooking Gave Humans Edge Over Apes? - 0 views

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      Impressive, good example 
mariakanarakis

By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. - Review... - 0 views

  • I see America's rhetorical and "virtual" integration, as reflected on TV, as a sign of progress, even while I find the NAACP's threat to force it by lawsuit absurd.
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      NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
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      This website explains us how skin colour discrimination is viewed from a black person in our society. There is history to the reason that they can't see us (whites) as we are and vice virsa. Blacks really are the ones suffering the most which is something completely wrong and it is called inequality. 
mariakanarakis

By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. - Review... - 0 views

  • Leonard Steinhorn (who is white) and Barbara Diggs-Brown (who is black) argue that th
  • fantasy of representational diversity hinders actual racial progress, which they define as black and white integration.
  • see it: America lives an "integration illusion," which they define as "the public acclaim for the progress we have made, the importance of integration symbolism, the overt demonstrations of racial harmony, the rejection of blatant bigotry, the abstract support to neighborhood and school integration - all coupled with a continuing resistance to living, learning, playing and praying together."
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  • By the Color of Our Skin is not a policy book. It aims to describe America's black-white condition, not to point the way to racial harmony
  • Blacks and whites live, learn, work, pray, play, and entertain separately.
  • Desegregation, they say, "means the elimination of discriminatory laws and barriers." Integration, by contrast, is "governed by behavior and choice."
  • "America is desegregating," the authors write. "But we are simply not integrating."
  • One Nation, Indivisible, would point to my friends as examples of America's racial progress.
  • They cite statistics that show residential segregation is receding: 83 percent of blacks and 61 percent of whites have at least one member of the other race in their neighborhood, a huge increase from 30 years ago.
  • They give integration an almost impossibly strict definition. It's not enough for whites to interact with blacks with whom they share space, whether residential, professional, or personal interest. Whites must actively seek out and embrace blacks.
  • American culture doesn't exist apart from black American culture. Some of this integration may be virtual - corporate ads and university brochures, for example.
  • Yet due to centuries of separation, black Americans have developed a culture that is distinct from, even as it exerts a disproportionate influence on, America's white or mainstream culture.
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    This is a good site for my PLN "The Illusion of Skin Colour". Yellow: info Blue: examples Green: statistics Pink: word searches/ definitions
Catherine Delisle

Feminist Anthropology - Anthropological Theories - Department of Anthropology - The Uni... - 0 views

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      This website is very credible because it belongs to the University of Alabama. It talks about the main concepts of feminist anthropology and of the big names such as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. It also talks about their views and the ones that contradicted them.
mauromongiat

Homo floresiensis: the Hobbit - 0 views

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      The homo floriensis Would be a small human if it did'nt have such a small brain. The fact that the brain of the homo floriensis is so small is a proof that it is a different specie from the homo sappien.
  • The brain size of the floresiensis skull is extraordinarily small, at 380cc. This is as small as any australopithecine ever discovered, and fairly typical for a chimpanzee. (Chimps range from about 300 to 500cc, averaging about 400cc, but are physically bigger than floresiensis.) This is smaller than would be expected even for a dwarf form of Homo erectus, and suggests there was active selection for a small brain size for some reason. (Human pygmies, incidentally, are nothing like H. floresiensis; their brains are almost as large as those of normal-sized humans)
Alex Maguid

Global Inequality - 0 views

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      THis is great because it show us how it from the 1800 to now there has been a dramatic increase in global inequality.
Chrissy Le

Animal cognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • artificial language comprehension in the bottlenosed dolphin using cognitive research methods
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      It's very interesting to think of animals being able to communicate between each other through various ways whether it be by speech, appearance, smell, etc.
  • Animal cognition From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • study of the mental capacities of non-human animals.
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  • comparative psychology,
  • animal intelligence
  • mostly concerns mammals, especially primates, cetaceans, and elephants, as well as dogs, cats, and rodents.
  • and fish,
  • began in the late 1950s
  • John Lilly
  • other animals do have minds and that humans should approach the study of their cognition accordingly.
  • bottlenosed dolphins
  • particularly monkeys
  • Spatial cognition
  • The ability to properly navigate and search through the environment is a critical task for many animals.
  • Research in 2007 shows that chimpanzees in the Fongoli savannah sharpen sticks to use as spears when hunting, considered the first evidence of systematic use of weapons in a species other than humans.
  • Language
  • The modeling of human language in animals is known as animal language research.
  • Consciousness
  • The sense in which animals can be said to have consciousness or a self-concept has been hotly debated; it is often referred to as the debate over animal minds.
  • It has been suggested that metacognition in some animals provides some evidence for cognitive self-awareness.[11] The great apes, dolphins, and rhesus monkeys have demonstrated the ability to monitor their own mental states and use an "I don't know" response to avoid answering difficult questions. These species might also be aware of the strength of their memories.
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    Indeed it is an interesting topic. Please don't bookmark wikipedia articles but maybe check out one of their references on the topic. You could also use some of the names of the anthropologists working in this field that we learned about. Susan Savage Rumbage was one who was featured in the documentary 'Ape Genius' and who worked with Kanzi.
Karleen Muhlegg

Are women more empathic than men? | Greater Good - 0 views

  • By Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas
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      Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas provides a credible article because she is an neurologist with a PhD at the University of California. 
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      This is a column that described the different reactions and reasons behind empathic responses based on gender.  This a column associated to the University of California, Berkeley where credible studies and facts are stated. 
kelsey sazant

Cooking Gave Humans Edge Over Apes? - 0 views

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      This shows the evolution of Apes and how cooking helped us develop our new species (Homo Sapiens) 
kayla lipson

My Library - 0 views

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      This article is talking about how technology affects schools, and more specifically how is it affecting a certain school. The author explains the way we use our technology, its importance, and many other important factors. 
Stephanie dore

Webspeak: The Secret Language of Teens - ABC News - 0 views

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  • "I've been texting so much that I wrote the letters 'u-r' instead of 'y-o-u-r' and the letter 'r' instead of the word 'are,'" said Michelle Sloan, a Clarksburg High freshman, of a paper she wrote for school. "My teacher came up to me and told me my mistake, and I felt kind of stupid."
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      Coming from a teen herself, she can see how IM is effecting her vocabulary and grammar. She seems to think that this is because of the technology used for socializing. This is a problem that is coming to the classroom and is not just saying on the outside. 
Daryl Bambic

What Shapes Our Language? [INFOGRAPHIC] | Voxy Blog - 0 views

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    What Shapes Our Language? [INFOGRAPHIC] http://t.co/MsaXoVI via @voxy
Daryl Bambic

Guide to Web Search: Web Site Credibility - 0 views

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    This is an essential skill so bookmark this site and return to it often.
Catherine Delisle

The teenage cultural landscape - Teens - Canadian Living - 0 views

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      This web page is very interesting because it very clearly identifies the modern teenage culture while somewhat comparing it to what the past culture was. It explains that teens act mostly to do whatever their parents tell them not to do. They are driven to take risks to find that independence from their parents. Fashion is also changing very quickly. Loyalty is a crucial part for teenage friendships. Common interests are very important, but loyalty is the key element.
Daryl Bambic

Miner's "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" - 0 views

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    "Body Ritual among the Nacirema"
Catherine Delisle

Restless Teens Texting More, Sleeping Less, and Struggling - 0 views

    • Catherine Delisle
       
      This website is very interesting. It explains the addiction that teenagers have to the new technologies. The author of this article thinks that technology has a negative impact on teenagers. Because of the fact that technology is time consuming, teens lose a lot of sleep. This can cause health issues such as crankiness, headaches, weakened immune systems and impaired concentration. It also states facts on teenagers & technology.
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