Sunday, May 29, 2016

How to Avoid Plagiarism: Part 1


Published on Oct 29, 2015
Ever wonder if you’ve been accidentally plagiarizing? Get on the case with Detective Johansson, and put the finger on the Plagiarized 5.





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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25


In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two biggest pre-Columbian civilizations, mine a mountain made of silver, mishandle their economy, and lose it all by the mid-1700s. Come along for the roller coaster ride with Charles I (he was also Charles V), Philip II, Atahualpa, Moctezuma, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro as Spain rises and falls, and takes two empires and China down with them.


John Green "Crash Course" on the Columbian Exchange

A Crash Course on the Columbian Exchange (note: this is one of his funniest videos as well as quite informative).


 

Sunday, May 22, 2016

How to manage your time well

This is very good!

Published on Sep 22, 2015
Time management is often the kryptonite of college students. Use these tips to help stay on track and avoid procrastination




How to Manage Your Time Well

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Cuba bracing for rough waters as leftist tide goes out

Yahoo News

Friday, May 20, 2016

The Aztecs, Maya and Incas

Great documentary on the Aztecs, Maya and Incas ....




Published on Dec 4, 2013

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Florida sinkhole indicates that humans were in North America 14,000 years ago

To read the article, click here:

Knife, bone, and dung cast doubt on Bering Strait theory and indicate humans spread through Americas 1,500 years earlier than thought, researchers say




A stone knife, mastodon bones and fossilized dung found in an underwater sinkhole show that humans lived in north Florida about 14,500 years ago, according to new research that suggests the colonization of the Americas was far more complex than originally believed.
Archaeologists have known of the sinkhole in the Aucilla river, south of Tallahassee, for years. But they recently dived back into the hole to excavate what they call clear evidence that ancient mankind spread throughout the Americas about 1,500 years earlier than previously thought.
Almost 200ft wide and 35ft deep, the sinkhole was “as dark as the inside of a cow, literally no light at all”, according to Jessi Halligan, lead diving scientist and a professor at Florida State University at Tallahassee. Halligan dived into the hole 126 times over the course of her research, wearing a head lamp as well as diving gear.
In the hole, the divers found stone tools including an inch-wide, several inch-long stone knife and a “biface” – a stone flaked sharp on both sides. The artifacts were found near mastodon bones; re-examination of a tusk pulled from the hole confirmed that long grooves in the bone were made by people, probably when they removed it from the skull and pulled meat from its base.
“Each tusk this size would have had more than 15lbs of tender, nutritious tissue in its pulp cavity,” said Daniel Fisher, a paleontologist at the University of Michigan who was a member of a team that once removed a tusk from a mammoth preserved in Siberian permafrost.
Of the “biface” tool, Halligan told Smithsonian magazine: “There is absolutely no way it is not made by people. There is no way that’s a natural artifact in any shape or form.”
When ancient people butchered or scavenged the mastodon, the sinkhole was a shallow pond: a watering hole for men, mastodons, bison, bears and apparently dogs. The researchers found bones that appear to be canine, suggesting dogs trailed the humans, either as companions or competitors for scraps.
The discovery makes the sinkhole the earliest documented site for humans in the south-eastern United States. The researchers published their findings in the journal Science Advances on Friday, writing that the artifacts show “far better” evidence of early humans than previous work at the site.
“The evidence from the Page-Ladson site is a major leap forward in shaping a new view of the peopling of the Americas at the end of the last Ice Age,” said Mike Waters, an archaeologist at Texas A&M University.
“In the archeological community, there’s still a terrific amount of resistance to the idea that people were here before Clovis,” he added, referring to the so-called “Clovis people”, a group long thought the first band of humans in the Americas.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/14/archaeology-florida-sinkhole-ancient-humans-mastodon-knife-bones-bering-strait




Saturday, May 7, 2016

How to Manage Your Time Well

This is very good!

Published on Sep 22, 2015
Time management is often the kryptonite of college students. Use these tips to help stay on track and avoid procrastination




How to Manage Your Time Well

5 Tips to Succeed in any College Class

only 2 minutes long, worth your time to watch!

https://youtu.be/hoAa8AiXj8M