Nature's Fury: The Science of Natural Disasters
Earthquakes. Volcanoes. Tornadoes. Hurricanes. These natural events remind us that we are small and vulnerable—and that living on this dynamic planet will always entail risk.
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Learn more at Nature's Fury: The Science of Natural Disasters, open at the American Museum of Natural History from November 15, 2014, through August 9, 2015.
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Yes, Scythians Are Us! (EngSubs)
In 2014 Russian TV channel Culture aired a documentary, looking through depth of time, trying to decipher who are Scythians, Sarmatians, Slavs and Russians, if they are one and the same people. The conclusion was mostly positive - yes, they are. The authors looked at the data from the chronicles, archaeology, linguistics and genetics, weighing arguments both for and against.
The film's conclusion is open, and in a typical Russian way advocating peace and cooperation of all peoples, whoever their ancestors may be.
The complete transcripts of the translation, as well as some additional materials can be found at my blog post:
Sami people
The Sami people, also spelled Sámi or Saami, are the indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sámi are the only indigenous people of Scandinavia recognized and protected under the international conventions of indigenous peoples, and are hence the northernmost indigenous people of Europe. Sami ancestral lands span an area of approximately 388,350 km2 , which is approximately the size of Norway, in the Nordic countries. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages and are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family.
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The Capstone Project: NYU Abu Dhabi Class of 2018
To celebrate the end of their undergraduate careers, members of the Class of 2018 summarize their creative and intellectual discoveries.
Each student explains his or her Capstone project in just 10 seconds while standing in front of a green screen constructed from an image, video, or keyword related to their project.
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Genetic studies on Jews | Wikipedia audio article
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Genetic studies on Jews are part of the population genetics discipline and are used to better understand the chronology of migration provided by research in other fields, such as history, archaeology, linguistics, and paleontology. These studies investigate the origins of various Jewish populations today. In particular, they investigate whether there is a common genetic heritage among various Jewish populations.
Studies of autosomal DNA, which look at the entire DNA mixture, show that Jewish populations have tended to form relatively closely related groups in independent communities with most in a community sharing significant ancestry. For populations of the Jewish diaspora, the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry. According to Behar and colleagues (2010), this is consistent with a historical formulation of the Jewish people as descending from ancient Hebrew and Israelites of the Levant and the dispersion of the people of ancient Israel throughout the Old World. Jews living in the North African, Italian, and Iberian regions show variable frequencies of admixture with the historical non-Jewish population along the maternal lines. In the case of Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews (in particular Moroccan Jews), who are closely related, the source of non-Jewish admixture is mainly southern European. Behar and colleagues have remarked on an especially close relationship between Ashkenazi Jews and modern Italians. Some studies show that the Bene Israel and Cochin Jews of India, and the Beta Israel of Ethiopia, while more closely resembling the local populations of their native countries, have some ancient Jewish descent.
Artists and Global Citizenship: a Pilot ArtsLink Assembly produced by CEC ArtsLink, New York City
CEC ArtsLink presented a pilot ArtsLink Assembly on Artists and Global Citizenship livestreaming from New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 16 November 2018 at 2 p.m. EST (New York) / 19.00 UTC +0 (London) / 20.00 UTC +1 (Berlin) / 21.00 UTC +2 (Bucharest) / 22.00 UTC +3 (Moscow). Use #ArtsLinkAssembly in social media.
The ArtsLink Assembly is a new public forum to share practices and ideas, to network and foster dialogue with international and U.S. artists, cultural institutions, foundations, and city and federal agencies.
Central to the Assembly is the exploration of the impact of international cultural exchange and the artists' growing role in social justice and building an open democratic society. The ArtsLink Fellows 2018 from Albania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine will participate in presentations and focused dialogues.
Speakers included, among others, Simon Brault, Director, Canada Council for the Arts; Izabel Galliera, author of Social Practice in Post-Soviet Europe; Leyya Tawil and Mike Khoury, artists; Nina Murray, U.S. State Department; Noor Zafar, lawyer; and Guiomar Ochoa, NEA.
Foundations panel moderated by Cathy Edwards, New England Foundation for the Arts, features Zeyba Rahman, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; Michelle Coffey, Lambent Foundation; Rashida Bumbray, Open Society Foundations; and Barbara Lanciers, Trust for Mutual Understanding.
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0:00 — Welcome
Hadrien Coumans and Brent Michael Davids, Lenape Center / Simon Dove, CEC ArtsLink
7:39 — ArtsLink Fellows 2018: Inga Lāce, Latvia / Assel Kadyrkhanova, Kazakhstan
18:30 — Undoing Nationalism: Laurel Ptak, Art in General, and ArtsLink alum Michal Novotny, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic
29:20 — Arts Envoy Program: Nina Murray, U.S. Department of State
36:18 — The Ecological Challenge: Hadrien Coumans and Brent Michael Davids, Lenape Center
44:22 — New York Safe Haven Residency: Ashley Tucker, Artistic Freedom Initiative and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Residency Unlimited
55:13 — Arab Experimentalism in Music, Performance and Live Art: artists Leyya Tawil and Mike Khoury
1:06:20 — ArtsLink Fellows 2018: Bozhena Zakaliuzhna, Ukraine / Viacheslav Ivaschenko, Russia
1:17:50 — The Arts Beyond Borders — Beginning with the Americas: Simon Brault, CEO Canada Council for the Arts. View the English transcript on the Canada Council for the Arts website: View the French transcript on the Canada Council for the Arts website:
1:45:25 — Foundations Investing in Trans-National Cultural Programs: Challenges and Opportunities. Panel moderated by Cathy Edwards, New England Foundation for the Arts with Zeyba Rahman, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; Michelle Coffey, Lambent Foundation; Rashida Bumbray, Open Society Foundations; and Barbara Lanciers, Trust for Mutual Understanding
2:30:30 — ArtsLink Fellows 2018: Zoya Falkova, Kazakhstan
2:41:10 — The Relevance of Socially Engaged Art Practice in Times of Crisis: Izabel Galliera, Assistant Professor, McDaniel College
2:57:33 — How the National Endowment for the Arts Fosters International Creative Collaboration: Guiomar Ochoa, International Activities Specialist, National Endowment for the Arts
3:07:35 — ArtsLink Fellows 2018: Adela Demetja, Albania / Karolina Halatek, Poland
3:18:26 — Make Sanctuary Not Art — Institutions, Artists and the Politics of Solidarity: Abou Farman Farmaian, The New School
3:29:17 — Priit Raud, ArtsLink alum, Estonia
3:41:14 — The Muslim Ban: Policies Targeting Muslim Communities: Noor Zafar, ACLU
3:51:48 — ArtsLink Fellows 2018: Raluca Croitoru, Romania / Filip Rađenović, Serbia
3:59:30 — Thanks: All Fellows 2018
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Central Asia | Wikipedia audio article
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Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. The region consists of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. It is also colloquially referred to as the stans as the countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix -stan, meaning land of.Central Asia has a population of about 105 million, consisting of five republics: Kazakhstan (pop. 17,987,736), Kyrgyzstan (5,955,734), Tajikistan (8,734,951), Turkmenistan (5,662,544), and Uzbekistan (31,446,795). Afghanistan (34,656,032), which is a part of South Asia, is also sometimes included in Central Asia.Central Asia has historically been closely tied to its nomadic peoples and the Silk Road. It has acted as a crossroads for the movement of people, goods, and ideas between Europe, Western Asia, South Asia, and East Asia. The Silk Road connected Muslim lands with the people of Europe, India, and China. This crossroads position has intensified the conflict between tribalism and traditionalism and modernization.In pre-Islamic and early Islamic times, Central Asia was predominantly Iranian, populated by Eastern Iranian-speaking Bactrians, Sogdians, Chorasmians and the semi-nomadic Scythians and Dahae. After expansion by Turkic peoples, Central Asia also became the homeland for the Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Tatars, Turkmen, Kyrgyz, and Uyghurs; Turkic languages largely replaced the Iranian languages spoken in the area.
From the mid-19th century until almost the end of the 20th century, most of Central Asia was part of the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union, both Slavic-majority countries, and the five former Soviet -stans are still home to about 7 million ethnic Russians and 500,000 Ukrainians.
UNESCO | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:18 1 History
00:10:52 2 Activities
00:18:19 3 Media
00:19:19 4 Official UNESCO NGOs
00:19:57 5 Institutes and centres
00:20:16 6 Prizes
00:22:40 6.1 Inactive prizes
00:23:08 7 International Days observed at UNESCO
00:23:24 8 Member states
00:24:04 9 Governing bodies
00:24:13 9.1 Director-General
00:25:39 9.2 General Conference
00:25:53 9.3 Executive Board
00:26:02 10 Offices and Headquarters
00:26:31 10.1 Field offices by region
00:26:52 10.1.1 Africa
00:28:34 10.1.2 Arab States
00:29:29 10.1.3 Asia and Pacific
00:30:58 10.1.4 Europe and North America
00:31:38 10.1.5 Latin America and the Caribbean
00:33:03 11 Controversies
00:33:13 11.1 New World Information and Communication order
00:34:31 11.2 Israel
00:37:50 11.2.1 Occupied Palestine Resolution
00:40:38 11.3 Palestine
00:40:47 11.3.1 Palestinian youth magazine controversy
00:41:15 11.3.2 Islamic University of Gaza controversy
00:42:15 11.4 Wikileaks
00:43:20 11.5 Che Guevara
00:44:05 11.6 Listing Nanjing Massacre documents
00:44:44 11.7 US withdrawals
00:46:45 11.8 Turkish–Kurdish conflict
00:47:28 12 Products or services
00:47:54 12.1 Information processing tools
00:49:13 13 See also
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; French: Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through educational, scientific, and cultural reforms in order to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter.
It is the successor of the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.
UNESCO has 195 member states and ten associate members. Most of its field offices are cluster offices covering three or more countries; national and regional offices also exist.
UNESCO pursues its objectives through five major programs: education, natural sciences, social/human sciences, culture and communication/information. Projects sponsored by UNESCO include literacy, technical, and teacher-training programs, international science programs, the promotion of independent media and freedom of the press, regional and cultural history projects, the promotion of cultural diversity, translations of world literature, international cooperation agreements to secure the world's cultural and natural heritage (World Heritage sites) and to preserve human rights, and attempts to bridge the worldwide digital divide. It is also a member of the United Nations Development Group.UNESCO's aim is to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information. Other priorities of the organization include attaining quality Education For All and lifelong learning, addressing emerging social and ethical challenges, fostering cultural diversity, a culture of peace and building inclusive knowledge societies through information and communication.The broad goals and objectives of the international community—as set out in the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—underpin all UNESCO strategies and activities.
Ancient history | Wikipedia audio article
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Ancient history as a term refers to the aggregate of past events from the beginning of writing and recorded human history and extending as far as the post-classical history. The phrase may be used either to refer to the period of time or the academic discipline.
The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian Cuneiform script; the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC. Ancient History covers all continents inhabited by humans in the 3,000 BC – 500 AD period.
The broad term Ancient History is not to be confused with Classical Antiquity. The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to Western History in the Ancient Mediterranean from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece.
The academic term history is additionally not to be confused with colloquial references to times past. History is fundamentally the study of the past through documents, and can be either scientific (archaeology) or humanistic (history through language).
Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 AD, the coming of Islam or the rise of Charlemagne as the end of ancient and Classical European history. Outside of Europe the 450-500 time frame for the end of ancient times has had difficulty as a transition date from Ancient to Post-Classical times.
During the time period of 'Ancient History' starting roughly from 3000 BC world population was already exponentially increasing due to the Neolithic Revolution which was in full progress. According to HYDE estimates from the Netherlands world population increased exponentially in this period. At 10,000 BC in Prehistory world population had stood at 2 million, rising to 45 million by 3,000 BC. By the rise of the Iron Age in 1,000 BC that population had risen to 72 million. By the end of the period in 500 AD world population stood possibly at 209 million.
Ancient history | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Ancient history as a term refers to the aggregate of past events from the beginning of writing and recorded human history and extending as far as the post-classical history. The phrase may be used either to refer to the period of time or the academic discipline.
The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian Cuneiform script; the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC. Ancient History covers all continents inhabited by humans in the 3,000 BC – 500 AD period.
The broad term Ancient History is not to be confused with Classical Antiquity. The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to Western History in the Ancient Mediterranean from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece.
The academic term history is additionally not to be confused with colloquial references to times past. History is fundamentally the study of the past through documents, and can be either scientific (archaeology) or humanistic (history through language).
Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 AD, the coming of Islam or the rise of Charlemagne as the end of ancient and Classical European history. Outside of Europe the 450-500 time frame for the end of ancient times has had difficulty as a transition date from Ancient to Post-Classical times.
During the time period of 'Ancient History' starting roughly from 3000 BC world population was already exponentially increasing due to the Neolithic Revolution which was in full progress. According to HYDE estimates from the Netherlands world population increased exponentially in this period. At 10,000 BC in Prehistory world population had stood at 2 million, rising to 45 million by 3,000 BC. By the rise of the Iron Age in 1,000 BC that population had risen to 72 million. By the end of the period in 500 AD world population stood possibly at 209 million.