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UGA anthropology researcher quoted on Mantle site

 

CBSNews.com ran a story about a very interesting discovery in Ontario - a giant, hitherto unknown 16th century settlement:

Occupied between roughly A.D. 1500 and 1530, the so-called Mantle site was settled by the Wendat (Huron). Excavations at the site, between 2003 and 2005… Read Article


Benjamin Franklin and the Franklin College

Douglas Anderson in the Sterling-Goodman Professor of English at UGA. He has taught and written about Benjamin Franklin throughout his career, including most recently The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin, published by Johns Hopkins in spring 2012. Here he talks about Franklin the man, his… Read Article


The expanding universe (of knowledge)

Scientists at the University of Georgia, the University of California, San Diego, UCLA, California State Polytechnic University and the Australia National University have collaborated on a study, published in the journal Nature, suggesting new information on how planets are formed.

The… Read Article

robot on stage

Commedia and Robots

Robotics finding its way into theatre is the subject of a New York Times feature story today. The story quotes department of theatre and film studies head David Saltz on the reality of robots and live theatre:

Comedy seems to come easily to robots, whose exaggerated features and stilted… Read Article


Study sees coevolution between invasive, native species

 

Coevolution is the change of a biological object triggered by the change of a related object. And up until now there has been little evidence of it driving changes in Earth's history, though that, too, seems to be changing:

A new University of Georgia study shows that… Read Article