This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Harvard Gazette
12-5-14
Project uses Web participation, video games to digitize documents.
Source: Harvard Gazette
12-3-14
Researchers discuss new theories on human migration revealed by sophisticated DNA tests.
Source: University of York
12-8-14
Researchers used the latest scientific techniques to extract ancient DNA and protein from tiny samples of parchment from documents from the late 17th and late 18th centuries allowing them to establish the species type of animals from which the parchment was made.
Source: National Geographic
12-7-14
There's evidence now that people cam to America, on both the east and west coasts, thousands of years ago.
Source: Yahoo News
12-8-14 (accessed)
Scientists started conservation work on the mummy of Minirdis, the son of a stolist priest.
Source: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
12-8-14 (accessed)
It's dropped ten percent since 2003.
Source: The Pennsylvania State University
12-7-14 (accessed)
New genetic research reveals that a small group of hunter-gatherers now living in Southern Africa once was so large that it comprised the majority of living humans during most of the past 150,000 years.
Source: NYT
12-6-14
by Andrew Cherlin
Social class differences in marriage have been tied to the extent of income inequality among white Americans for at least 130 years.
Source: Miller Center - University of Virginia
12-7-14 (accessed)
There’s plenty of fodder for Hillary to worry about.
Source: Huffington Post
12-5-14
The geometrical engraving is believed to date back 430,000 to 540,000 years.
Source: NPR
12-2-14
The vote was unanimous.
Source: Sabato’s Crystal Ball (Larry Sabato)
12-4-14
The surest price the winning party will pay is defeat of hundreds of their most promising candidates and officeholders for Senate, House, governorships, and state legislative posts.
Source: Press Release: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
12-3-14
Largest Single Gift Will Ensure the Museum’s Vital Educational Mission
12-3-14
by HNN
"The Government's promotional video for 'Ireland 2016', the centenary commemoration of the Easter Rising, provides a fairly obvious clue to what is wrong with it. There is only the briefest mention of 1916 and none of 'The Rising' or freedom."
Source: NYT
12-3-14
The director’s drawing media attention. She’s black and a woman — rare in Hollywood.
Source: NYT
12-2-14
Takashi Uemura, a former journalist, is under attack for his reporting on “comfort women.”
Source: Press Release: Readex
12-3-14
Featuring essential historical newspapers collected by the American Antiquarian Society, Early American Newspapers, Series 11, 1803-1899 will be launched in December 2014 by Readex, a division of NewsBank.
Source: BBC
12-2-14
Analysis of DNA from Richard III has thrown up a surprise: evidence of infidelity in his family tree.
Source: BuzzFeed
12-1-14
The ad, which ran on the radio, says what's worse is that her opponent wants to impeach President Obama.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
12-2-14
College students and alcohol have mixed poorly for decades.
