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28/10/2025

China has a history of maritime trade extending to West Africa, the Mediterranean, and much of Asia that goes back to the first millennium. Newly recovered shipwrecks are painting an increasingly clear picture of what that looked like over the centuries. Shipwrecks and more in this week’s Suggested Readings:

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

27/10/2025

Curious about the work life of an archaeologist? This month, we interviewed Amy V. Margaris, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Oberlin College, to learn about working collections, students, and the wider community.

Anthropological archaeologist Amy V. Margaris argues that to do our best science, we need a diverse group of practitioners—in the field and in the museum.

26/10/2025

It’s awkward to be asked by a friend or family member for a loan you don’t want to give or don’t believe they can repay. Saying no can make everyone feel like losers. So, what’s the strategy?

Refusing to loan a friend money can have social repercussions. What strategies do would-be lenders use to make these interactions less fraught?

25/10/2025

The Erie Canal, which opened 200 years ago, inspired a wave of canal building in other states, although the economic benefit of these other canals is dubious in retrospect.

Finished in October 1825, the Erie Canal connected increasingly specialized regions, altering the economic landscape of the northeast United States.

24/10/2025

The suppression of Black voters well into the twentieth century, despite the stipulations of the Fifteenth Amendment, was only ended (for the most part) with the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

The brevity of the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution belies its impact on American voting rights.

24/10/2025

The Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, housed at Notre Dame University-Louaize and available via JSTOR includes 3,100 images taken in nearly 300 villages, towns, and cities in Lebanon before the civil war.

The Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, supported by an innovative mapping project, details threatened buildings across Lebanon.

23/10/2025

The largest fish, Rhincodon typus, is obviously not a whale, but it’s also unusual for a shark. https://bit.ly/42RRiKD

The largest fish, Rhincodon typus, is obviously not a whale, but it’s also unusual for a shark.

23/10/2025

A single coronal mass ejection could move a mass of material equivalent to all the Great Lakes from New York City to Los Angeles in just under two seconds—almost faster than it takes to say “space weather.”

But these phenomena, spun off ejections from the Sun, aren’t easy to study.

22/10/2025

Due process figures implicitly in Shakespeare’s *Julius Caesar*. What can it tell us about contemporary judicial proceedings?

Shakespeare's tragedy offers a telling parable about the administration of justice—and rife mishandling thereof—in our day.

22/10/2025

Since the medieval period, the European monarch’s body was conceived as encompassing both the sacred and the profane. But the less said about the profane, the merely human body, the better.

By exposing his skin on a sunny day, King Edward VIII offered a reminder that a monarch is, after all, nothing but a person.

21/10/2025

Some accounts of Charles Darwin’s life—including his own autobiography—downplayed his geological prowess. But in Darwin’s early notes and correspondence, historian James Secord sees “one of the best-trained men of his age in Great Britain.”

At university and in the field, Darwin trained his scientific thinking as would a geologist, seeking causal explanations for observed natural phenomena.

21/10/2025

Wolves are the wild animal most revered and feared in many human cultures since ancient times. Researchers who spend time with them up close note that they have a lot in common with us. But they also remain a subject of concern in many communities. Wolf packs and more in this week’s Suggested Readings.

Well-researched stories from Sequencer, KFF Health News, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

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