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A pilot study discovered that levels of BPA in pregnant Mennonite women were four times lower than the national median.
This is an interesting article that shows that the technological advancements and the way we choose to live has tangible, measureable effects on our biochemistry.
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A pilot study discovered that levels of BPA in pregnant Mennonite women were four times lower than the national median.
This is an interesting article that shows that the technological advancements and the way we choose to live has tangible, measureable effects on our biochemistry.
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The Endangered Languages Project is a website for people to find and share the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about the over 3,000 endangered …
This short video is a great primer for understanding the importance of linguistic diversity. Why the loss of linguistic diversity (a global phenomenon) related to other themes on geography, such as political and economic autonomy for minority groups? Why are so many languages vanishing today? What forces are creating these emerging cultural patterns? For more on the project, see: http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
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If we accept that controversial dams will continue to be built for economic benefit, how can we limit their damage on the environment?
“Of all the ways we have engineered Earth in the Anthropocene, the Age of Man, surely nothing rivals our audacious planetary-wide re-plumbing of the world’s waterways. But is our control of Earth’s arteries causing dangerous clots?” The human-environmental interaction theme of geography is as readily apparent in this issue as any.
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Bill Gates sounds off on a number of education issues in a recent interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education. He states that higher ed…
While I agree that most institutions have not undergone a fundamental paradigm shift (predominantly still lecture/exam style courses at most colleges) things are changing slowly as more teachers that grew up with these technologies are hitting the classroom. I’d like to see more of a natural infusion of technology into the classroom so the technology isn’t the entertainment “wow” factor, but supports pedagogy. How do you use technology in the classroom? What do you wish you could do?
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U.S. census data shows racial diversity is increasing in major cities across the United States. But highly diverse neighborhoods are still rare, newly arrive…
I’ve read within the last few months articles mentioning that segregation in inner city neighborhood are on the rise, and other headlines stating that ethnic diversity within urban areas is at an all-time high. My first reaction was, “so which is it?” This research shows how to make sense of both of these trends which seem contradictory. For more context on this issue, see this Atlantic Cities article.
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High inflation, slowing growth and a broken food distribution system mean some are eating less in India.
While India is often referenced as a rising economic star in the globalizing economy and a destination for outsourced jobs. Still, these economic developments aren’t influencing all people within India.
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Many items are marketed specifically for boys or girls. Boys are given rugged survival skills, while the girl’s guide suggests tips of social interactions. How is this a result of cultural patterns and processes? How does this form of gendered marketing produce cultural patterns and processed?
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“Some four decades after welcoming foreign assembly plants and factories, known as maquiladoras, Mexico has seen only a trickle of its industrial and factory workers join the ranks of those who even slightly resemble a middle class.”
Despite making such consumer goods like BlackBerry smartphones, plasma TVs, appliances and cars that most people in the US, for instance, consider necessities, Mexican workers in these factories seldom get to enjoy these items because, as this article argues, the labor system keeps them in poverty. Foreign investment in these businesses keep unions out and attracts workers from poorer areas, allowing low-cost labor to prevail. Less than $8 a day is the going wage – great for the bottom line and consumer prices but very bleak for those who toil in this system.
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