Nicola Jones

I contributed a little to this NY Times package on homeschooling, profiling an old acquaintance from Pemberton we used to know as "super mom". It doesn't get to the heart of if/how we should be homeschooling now, in the coming months... but it's still an interesting read. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/ 08/18/parenting/homeschool- families.html

I don't post all the articles I edit here on this blog, but this one is particularly worth mentioning... Anthropologist Gabriella Soto writes a compelling piece comparing the unknown death count from COVID-19 to the unknown deaths from undocumented migration into the United States, along with the uncounted deaths from systemic racism and police violence. Such miscounts suffer from politics, bureaucracy, and the complex trail of social factors that lie behind the biological causes of death. Worth a read! https://www.sapiens.org/culture/migrant-death-counts/

Obviously I know you have all been waiting for this :) The geek within me is thrilled to see that the new calibrations for radiocarbon dating are now out. Calibration might sound excessively technical, but suffice it to say this pushes back reliable dating of things like bones, sea shells, etc to 55,000 years ago (5000 years further back than previously possible).  https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/recalibration-is-the-biggest-shake-up-in-the-carbon-dating-world-for-seven-years/4012241.article