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Other Jul 27, 2016

Researchers create new 3-D imagery and documentation of Native American artifacts

Idaho State University researchers are working with Grand Teton National Park and various tribes to better document about 50 Native American artifacts from the park's David T. Vernon Collection and create digital 3-D visualizations ...

Social Sciences Oct 23, 2015

A democratic cacophony

India is home to one of the most vibrant, engaged and mystifying democracies on the planet. Cambridge academics, across a wide range of disciplines, are working on the ground – with citizens, charities, NGOs, fellow scholars ...

Materials Science Oct 14, 2015

Born to run off the reels

The end of this summer marked the fortieth anniversary of the release of Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run. If reminiscing fans felt a wave of nostalgia for one of the iconic albums of popular music, they likely also experienced ...

Archaeology Sep 10, 2015

Archaeologists piece together how crew survived 1813 shipwreck in Alaska

Working closely with the U.S. Forest Service and the Sitka Tribe of Alaska, an international team of researchers funded by the National Science Foundation has begun to piece together an archaeological and historical narrative ...

Internet Mar 18, 2015

TED Prize winner wishes for archive of human wisdom

StoryCorps founder Dave Isay unveiled a wish to use smartphone applications to archive the spoken wisdom of humanity.

Internet Nov 17, 2014

US oral history project wins $1 mn TED Prize

The founder of a project devoted to capturing stories of people's lives spoken in their own words has won a million-dollar TED Prize that comes with an unfettered wish.

Earth Sciences Jun 10, 2014

First atlas of Inuit Arctic trails launched

New digital resource brings together centuries of cultural knowledge for the first time, showing that networks of trails over snow and sea ice, seemingly unconnected to the untrained eye, in fact span a continent – and ...

Environment Nov 1, 2013

Trawling for memories and responses to extreme weather events

Snow storms, floods, droughts, heatwaves and hurricanes—all these can have a dramatic effect on our lives and generate a lot of different responses. Now a team of experts are hoping to piece together our responses to major ...

Social Sciences Jul 16, 2013

From China to US, the game of mahjong shaped modern America, says Stanford scholar

For many Americans, the Chinese game of mahjong evokes images of mustachioed ancient mandarins, elderly women sitting around a card table or a solitary computer game.

Social Sciences Jul 1, 2013

Border control leaves undocumented migrants displaced, says historian

During a period when circular migration between Mexico and the United States declined, border militarization led to an increase in illegal immigration, says Stanford scholar Ana Raquel Minian.

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