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Artifacts. Stuff. The material world, especially as shaped by humans into what is useful for them.
A set of clay figurines at The Field Museum of Chicago depicts the bustling market square of pre-Columbian Tlatelolco. (Photo by Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Meet the people, the hoarders, not as bearers of mental illness but as differently-abled bodies that might have special sensory access to the call of things.
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How did a packaging company get into the publishing business — into the containment and distribution of information? How were geographic imaginations changed in the process?
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old altars are increasingly encountered as surplus goods by those who lack the space, ritual expertise, or inclination to care for them. Like other forms of sacred waste (like human corpses), disposal is complicated for practical and moral reasons, and often requires the performance of special rites (供養 kuyō).
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‘The wheel and axle’ revolutionized human technological history by transforming linear to rotary motion and causing parts of devices to move. While its ancient origins are commonly associated with the appearance of carts during the Bronze Age, we focus on much earlier wheel-shaped find: an exceptional assemblage of over a hundred perforated pebbles from the 12,000-year-old Natufian village of Nahal Ein-Gev II, Israel. We analyze the assemblage using 3D methodologies, incorporating novel study applications to both the pebbles and their perforations and explore the functional implications. We conclude that these items could have served as spindle whorls to spin fibres. In a cumulative evolutionary trend, they manifest early phases of the development of rotational technologies by laying the mechanical principle of the wheel and axle.
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the burning of organic carbon warms the Earth about 100,000 times more from climate effects than it does through the release of chemical energy in combustion.
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48.5 percent of children in the countries surveyed have blood lead levels above 5 µg/dL.
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a multicriteria assessment of 24 meat and milk alternatives that integrates nutritional, health, environmental, and cost analyses with a focus on high-income countries.
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the sanitation department is the most important workforce in the city of New York
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This episode is about what it takes for a poor kid to get a college degree. Strange as it may sound, campus food at a place like Bowdoin College is a big part of the problem.
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But the real innovation was coming up with a preserved protein. Ancient Egyptians went to war carrying dried fish…
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a man must do more than sell roses
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The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat…
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the great bay-window was
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A fairly comprehensive overview of the many, many things we can do now to reduce society’s carbon footprint along with estimates of each project’s cost and effectiveness.
