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Eric J. White
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20 years an archaeologist, 10 years an educator, now an aspiring and hopefully inspiring writer with an interest in social issues and environmental causes.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Yikes! Not again!

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...
China hit by mystery virus outbreak as hospitals overwhelmed as children warned
Hospitals in China have been overwhelmed by an H3N2 influenza outbreak with patients waiting in corridors as antiviral drug purchases surge by 500%
www.dailystar.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Super excited to be preparing for my Archaeology 🏺 and Disability ♿ course for winter quarter! Registration starts this week, and I hope lots of awesome @stanford.edu students sign up! I'll be posting about the class here on BlueSky too, and would love to have some good pedagogy conversations!
Flyer text: ANTHRO/ARCHLGY/FEMGEN 139/239 Archaeology and Disability Winter 2026 Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30–2:50pm Building 200, Room 2:10 WAYS: EDP Course Description: In this course, we will explore the ways archaeology and disability relate to each other, including both the ways archaeologists interpret disability in the past and how ableism shapes the practice of archaeology in the present. We will examine a variety of theoretical frames drawn from Disability Studies and other disciplines and consider how they can be usefully applied to archaeology. Case studies from a variety of geographic and temporal contexts will provide the basis for imagining an anti-ableist archaeology. Dr. Laura Heath-Stout lheathst@stanford.edu Flyer images: photo of objects of personal adornment from Western Washington Hospital for the Insane, USA (from Linnea Kuglitsch's dissertation), artistic reconstruction of a temple with a ramp, Epidauros, Greece (from an article by Deborah Sneed), artistic reconstruction of a disabled H. heidelbergensis, Atapuerca, Spain (from a 2010 article in El Mundo); my headshot showing a smiling white woman in my 30s, wearing a brightly colored shawl
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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The Wandsworth Shield, a 2nd century BC #Celtic bronze boss found in the River Thames on display at the British Museum.

#Archaeology #History #artwork #art #FindsFriday
December 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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“That the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they’re clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.”
- Gene Roddenberry, September 1988
Black and white image of Gene Roddenberry looking up and to his left. There is a silhouette of the USS Enterprise behind him.
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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🧪Denying HIV federal funding doesn’t make HIV go away. It stops progress in its tracks.

HIVMA Chair Anna K. Person, MD, FIDSA
Erasing HIV from the federal budget will not make the deadly virus go away but will reverse the progress made toward ending the HIV epidemic. Without continued research and support for HIV prevention, surveillance and services, new HIV transmissions and health care expenditures will climb, and people will die." • HIVMA Chair Anna K. Person, MD, FIDSA
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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So there you are...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
How Ancient Is Primate Kissing? Oxford Study Reveals
Oxford researchers map the evolution of the kiss and conclude that mouth-to-mouth contact likely arose in a common primate ancestor 16.9-21.5 million years ago.
www.medscape.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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So, MAGA is opposing Costco's lawsuit to maintain low consumer prices?

thedailyadda.com/2025/12/03/b...
MAGA Erupts After Costco Sues Trump for Tariff Refunds
Many of President Donald Trump’s biggest supporters will not be munching on Costco’s $1.50 hot dogs this holiday season. MAGA influencers are claiming they will boycott the big box store en masse in r...
thedailyadda.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes—Including One That's 5,200 Years Old
The team has several theories about how Indigenous groups created and used the vessels, which were discovered during research over the past five years
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Cool article, but it’s a little misleading. There’s a vast difference between stone age food processing and the nightmare meals produced in an industrial setting.
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Archaeological study challenges paleo diet, revealing humans have long eaten 'processed plant foods'
Humans evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be the ultimate flexible eaters—chasing carbohydrates and fats from plant and animal sources alike. A new study in the Journal of Archaeological R...
phys.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Pete Hegseth Crossed a Clear, Bright Line. Will He Pay a Price?
The rule against attacking people “out of the fight” is foundational in U.S. and international law. And there’s no doubt it was crossed. What now?
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
California has a huge solar power problem. A fix is coming.
The state's glut of solar power is about to become far, far easier to sell.
www.sfgate.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Interesting article! They’ve figured out the mechanism of how a sunburn can lead to skin cancer and that points to how that might be prevented. Good read.
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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YES! lol
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Let's put the "fun" back in funerals.
A person shooting confetti out of a machine. The text reads, "Funeral Idea: Cremate me and shoot my ashes out of a confetti canon over the guests."
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d
96% of the highest-paid workers in the US have paid sick days.

Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.

Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
The Hidden Costs of Denying Paid Sick Leave
Robert Reich
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December 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Despite SNAP's return, indigenous Americans still struggle with food insecurity : Shots - Health News

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Despite SNAP's return, indigenous Americans still struggle with food insecurity : Shots - Health News : NPR
During the government shutdown, disruptions in food aid rippled across reservations. Both residents and tribal officials had to make tough choices, and are still feeling the financial impacts.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Exactly this!
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Looking back on the discovery of Lucy.
#Archaeology
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Science history: Iconic 'Lucy' fossil discovered, transforming our understanding of human evolution — Nov. 24, 1974
On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor. The iconic "Lucy" fossil would reveal much about our species' tangle...
www.livescience.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Interesting article, but I think it makes Big Tech/AI look a little desperate—and I'm not sure that's accurate. The California restrictions seem fairly meager, and I doubt they'll actually hurt the industry's bottom line much.

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Big Tech's $200M AI power grab is bad for California—and America - Capitol Weekly
OPINION - We cannot sit idly by as technology companies seek to become our overlords, centralizing more and more power within the confines of Silicon Valley. Some may trust Big Tech to implicitly do t...
capitolweekly.net
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁
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November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Great article: Something positive to start the week. The kelp forests are just off the coast here. It seems they’re always teaming with life.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
Underwater Forests Return to Life off the Coast of California, and That Might be Good News for the Entire Planet
Wondrous kelp beds harbor a complex ecosystem that’s teeming with life, cleaning the water and the atmosphere, and bringing new hope for the future
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Another warning about those dastardly book marketing scammers...
#marketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing #amwriting #amediting #LateNightWrite #writer #booksky #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory
Book Marketing Scams: When Praise Comes with a Price - Linda K Sienkiewicz
A marketer sent an effusive email praising my book only to pitch a paid service to “connect me with readers who matter.” The experience left me reflecting on how easily a writer’s longing for validati...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Fascinating article, though it does make the Ancient Athenians seem a bit like vindictive trolls. 😜
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Missouri’s a police state with a failed economy. This sounds like something you’d read about in some totalitarian state.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri AG Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Cool find that makes you wonder what those shells meant.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Viking Age woman found buried with scallop shells on her mouth, and archaeologists are mystified
A ninth-century grave discovered in Norway held the remains of a Viking Age woman whose mouth was covered with two large scallop shells.
www.livescience.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM