Ashley’s Stuff in the News
Aylin Woodward, “Our Big Brains Have Shrunk. Scientists Might Know Why,” Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2023, https://www.wsj.com/science/human-brains-shrinking-evolution-science-980c45e.
DeSilva, Jeremy et al. “Human Brains Have Shrunk: The Questions are When and Why.” Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1191274.
Tracey’s Stuff in the News
“Nuclear Waste Storage,” Nuclear Princeton, Princeton University, accessed on September 20, 2023 at https://nuclearprinceton.princeton.edu/yucca-mountain
Mitch Jacoby, “As Nuclear Waste piles up scientists seek the best long term solutions,” Chemical and Engineering News 98:12, accessed on September 20, 2023 at https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/nuclear-waste-pilesscientists-seek-best/98/i12
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Ashley’s Piece of Stuff
Sarah Derouin, “These Bees Have Been Mummified in Their Cocoons for 3,000 Years,” New York Times, August 20, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/science/mummified-bees-cocoons.html.
Carlos Neto de Carvalho et al. “Eucera Bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Eucerini) Preserved in their Brood Cells from late Holocene (Middle Neoglacial) Palaeosols of Southwest Portugal.” Papers in Paleontology 9, no 4 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1518.
Oldroyd, Benjamin P. and Stephen C. Pratt. “Comb Architecture of the Eusocial Bees Arises from Simple Rules Used During Cell Building.” Advances in Insect Physiology 49 (2015): 101-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aiip.2015.06.001.
Helen Briggs, “Prehistoric Farmers were First Beekeepers,” BBC News, November 11, 2015, https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34749846.
Tracey’s Piece of Stuff
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Louise A. Hitchcock, “Knossos is Burning: Gender Bending The Minoan Genius,” Engendering Prehistoric: “Stratigraphies” in the Aegean and the Mediterranean, Proceedings of an International Conference, University of Crete, Rethymno, 2-5 June. Aegaeum 30 (2009). Accessed on academia.com on September 20, 2023 at https://www.academia.edu/3479282/_Knossos_is_Burning_Gender_Bending_the_Minoan_Genius_
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Ralph L. Slotten, “The Master of Animals: A Study in the Symbolism of Ultimacy in Primitive Religion,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 33 (1965): 293-302.
Joan Aruz, et al. Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014).