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There's No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label This story is part of The Race Issue, a special issue of National Geographic that explores how race defines, separates, and unites us. In the first half of the 19th century, one of America’s most prominent scientists was a doctor named Samuel Morton. Morton lived in Philadelphia, and he collected skulls. He wasn’t choosy about his suppliers. He accepted skulls scavenged from battlefields and snatched from catacombs. Morton believed that people could be divided into five races and that these represented separate acts of creation. “He had a lot of influence, particularly in the South,” says Paul Wolff Mitchell, an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania who is showing me the skull collection, now housed at the Penn Museum. Today Morton is known as the father of scientific racism. This is the case even though what science actually has to tell us about race is just the opposite of what Morton contended. Most of these tweaks were neither helpful nor harmful. 1.
Top 100 Women of History (by Web Searches) Using internet searches as a parameter, we've created a compilation of the 100 most popular women in history, listed here in ascending order of popularity (that is, No. 1 is the one most popular with searchers). There may be some unexpected names, and if a favorite doesn't appear in this list, it's likely that she was indeed researched, since more than 300 women were included. Unfortunately, some people's personal heroines just didn't show up in enough searches. Note: Rankings will shift every day. This listing is just one recent snapshot of the searching ranks for women on the web. Rachel Carson Pioneer environmentalist Rachel Carson wrote the book that helped create the environmentalist movement in the late 20th century. Isadora Duncan Isadora Duncan brought modern dance to the world, while living (and dying) with personal tragedy. Artemisia Ruler of Halicarnassus, Artemisia helped Xerxes defeat the Greeks and then helped talk him into abandoning the war against the Greeks. Martha Graham
Hamilton Vs. Burr: What Really Happened? - by Amelia Onorato Beyond Hamilton: How the friends turned into political rivals, and finally into mortal enemies by Amelia Onorato Posted Yesterday Rise and Shine. The World is Doomed. The Nib, delivered to your inbox every AM. The women you missed in history class The author of the first novel, warriors and rulers, scientists and war heroes. History abounds with tales of trailblazing women long forgotten — especially those who were nonwhite, non-Western, or not straight. Take a look at a dozen of the women in “Bygone Badass Broads” so you can begin to see what you missed in history class. Page G7 I first learned about Murasaki back when I was a small child obsessively playing Where in Time is Carmen SanDiego? La Maupin was one of the first women I read about who inspired me to start digging deeper for more stories of rebellious women in history. I’m a Boston transplant, and the first time I felt like this was a city I could call home was standing in the courtyard of the Gardner Museum in Fenway, awestruck by the beauty and the stories of the tiny, raucous, rule-breaking woman who created one of the first spaces in our fair city where the public could experience art. Get The Weekender in your inbox: I love women warriors.
Happy Birthday, Dynamite: Interesting Facts About the Explosive Material Today (May 7), marks the 150th anniversary of one of Alfred Nobel's patents for dynamite, which was first patented in 1867. The explosive forever reshaped the world, revolutionizing warfare and construction, to the lifelong chagrin of its inventor Nobel. From its origins to its use in modern warfare to its eventual fate, here are some facts about the explosive. Though Nobel's invention was huge, it wasn't the first explosive created. Gunpowder was invented in China in the ninth century A.D., and had been used in European warfare since the 1200s. And in 1846, an Italian man, Ascanio Sobrero, had invented the highly volatile explosive nitroglycerin, according to the University of Bristol chemistry website. Error loading player: No playable sources found Nobel's innovation was discovering that this volatile material, when mixed with something called kieselguhr (or diatomaceous Earth), could become stabilized, according to Nobelprize.org. However, its use as a tool of war was also obvious.
Women who changed the world •Biography Online A list of famous and influential women, including women’s rights activists, poets, musicians, politicians, humanitarians and scientists. A list of women in chronological order Sappho (circa 570 BCE) One of the first known female writers. Much of her poetry has been lost but her immense reputation has remained. Cleopatra (69 BCE–30 BCE) The last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt. Mary Magdalene (4 BCE–40BCE) Accounts from the Gospels and other sources suggest Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus’ most devoted followers. Boudicca (1st Century CE) Boudicca was an inspirational leader of the Britons. Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) Mystic, author and composer. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204) The first Queen of France. Joan of Arc (1412–1431) The patron saint of France, Joan of Arc inspired a French revolt against the occupation of the English. Mirabai (1498–1565) Indian mystic and poet. St Teresa of Avila (1515–1582) Spanish mystic, poet and Carmelite reformer. Queen Victoria (1819–1901) British Queen.
Life's Nice In The Nordic Ice: Finland, Neighbors Top U.N. Happiness Index A Finnish flag, seen waved by a fan during the Nordic World Ski Championships last year. Matthias Hangst/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Matthias Hangst/Getty Images A Finnish flag, seen waved by a fan during the Nordic World Ski Championships last year. Sure, Norway may have dominated the Winter Games last month in Pyeongchang, handily sweeping the Olympic medal count — but the country has just been knocked from its perch atop another international ranking: the World Happiness Report. As of this writing, the Finns are the happiest people in the world. At least, that's according to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network — which on Wednesday released its annual rankings of 156 countries, using a statistical model based on a gamut of considerations ranging from their citizens' healthy life expectancy and income, to their governments' levels of social support and government corruption. In order from most to least happy ... The 10 happiest countries
Important Women Through History A List of Women Achievers Explore this list of over 30 women of achievement. You can nominate one of these women or someone else to the Honor Roll of Notable Women. This page includes links outside of Scholastic.com Every Web site we link to was visited by our team at one point in time to make sure it's appropriate for children. Louisa May Alcott:1832–1888 Author who produced the first literature for the mass market of juvenile girls in the 19th century. Susan B. Clara Barton:1821–1912 Clara Barton got involved with tending the needy when she treated injured Union soldiers on the battlefield during the Civil War. Elizabeth Blackwell:1821–1910 First American woman awarded a medical degree by a college. Pearl S. Cleopatra:69–30 B.C. Marie Curie:1867–1934 This physicist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize — she actually won it twice — and the first woman to earn a doctorate in Europe. Top of Page Helen Keller1880–1968 A childhood disease left her deaf, mute, and blind. Dr.
Worldwide Flu pandemic 1918 click 2x This year marks the 100th anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. Between 50 and 100 million people are thought to have died, representing as much as 5 percent of the world’s population. Half a billion people were infected. Especially remarkable was the 1918 flu’s predilection for taking the lives of otherwise healthy young adults, as opposed to children and the elderly, who usually suffer most. The 1918 flu pandemic has been a regular subject of speculation over the last century. By correcting these 10 myths, we can better understand what actually happened and learn how to prevent and mitigate such disasters in the future. 1. No one believes the so-called “Spanish flu” originated in Spain. The pandemic likely acquired this nickname because of World War I, which was in full swing at the time. In fact, the geographic origin of the flu is debated to this day, though hypotheses have suggested East Asia, Europe and even Kansas. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. However, officials did respond. 7. 8.
Why March is National Women’s History Month | National Women's History Project Local Celebrations As recently as the 1970’s, women’s history was virtually an unknown topic in the K-12 curriculum or in general public consciousness. To address this situation, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women initiated a “Women’s History Week” celebration for 1978. The week March 8th, International Women’s Day, was chosen as the focal point of the observance. The local Women’s History Week activities met with enthusiastic response, and dozens of schools planned special programs for Women’s History Week. Mobilizing a Movement In 1979, Molly Murphy MacGregor, a member of our group, was invited to participate in The Women’s History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, which was chaired by noted historian, Gerda Lerner and attended by the national leaders of organizations for women and girls. Each year, the dates of National Women’s History Week, (the week of March 8th) changed and every year a new lobbying effort was needed.
Fathers pass on four times as many new genetic mutations as mothers – study | Science Children inherit four times as many new mutations from their fathers than their mothers, according to research that suggests faults in the men’s DNA are a driver for rare childhood diseases. Researchers studied 14,000 Icelanders and found that men passed on one new mutation for every eight months of age, compared with women who passed on a new mutation for every three years of age. The figures mean that a child born to 30-year-old parents would, on average, inherit 11 new mutations from the mother, but 45 from the father. Kari Stefansson, a researcher at the Icelandic genetics company, deCODE, which led the study, said that while new mutations led to variation in the human genome, which is necessary for evolution to happen, “they are also believed to be responsible for the majority of cases of rare diseases in childhood.” Children inherit new mutations when they build up in the father’s sperm and the mother’s eggs.
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