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Charles Willson Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon and the Great Chain of Being: The Interaction of Religion, Science, and Art in Early-Federal America [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, I explore Peale’s monumental painting, a work that is many things, a self-portrait and history painting among others. Indeed, in this painting, Peale was responding to science, religion, and their shifting positions within early-nineteenth-
Zygmont, Bryan J.
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Environmental Research Letters, 2020 ExxonMobil Corp Vice President Vijay Swarup’s criticisms of our 2017 study (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 084019), which demonstrated that ExxonMobil misled the public about climate change, are misleading and incorrect.
Geoffrey Supran, Naomi Oreskes
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A novel and enigmatic two-holed shell aperture in a new species of suspension-feeding worm-snail (Vermetidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Shell aperture modifications are well known in terrestrial and aquatic gastropods, with apertural lip thickening and tooth development common in species with terminal (determinate) shell growth.
Rüdiger Bieler +3 more
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Phylogeny and divergence time estimation of Io moths and relatives (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae: Automeris) [PDF]
PeerJThe saturniid moth genus Automeris includes 145 described species. Their geographic distribution ranges from the eastern half of North America to as far south as Peru. Automeris moths are cryptically colored, with forewings that resemble dead leaves, and
Chelsea Skojec +4 more
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The (in)visible barriers to free software: Inequalities in online communities in Spain
Studies in Communication Sciences, 2021 Free culture communities support self-learning, peer production, and the distribution of knowledge generated without any restrictions. However, free culture communities are not isolated from the social inequalities of the outside world. Understanding (in)
Dafne Calvo
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A multi-method approach for assessing the distribution of a rare, burrowing North American crayfish species [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Primary burrowing crayfishes face high extinction risk, but are challenging to study, manage, and conserve due to their difficult-to-sample habitat (i.e., terrestrial burrows) and low population densities.
Kathleen B. Quebedeaux +3 more
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Assessment of North American arthropod collections: prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Over 300 million arthropod specimens are housed in North American natural history collections. These collections represent a “vast hidden treasure trove” of biodiversity −95% of the specimen label data have yet to be transcribed for research, and less ...
Neil S. Cobb +5 more
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The History of Dengue Outbreaks in the Americas [PDF]
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012 Dengue is a viral disease usually transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Dengue outbreaks in the Americas reported in medical literature and to the Pan American Health Organization are described. The outbreak history from 1600 to 2010 was categorized into four phases: Introduction of dengue in the Americas (1600–1946); Continental plan for the ...
Olivia, Brathwaite Dick +5 more
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Religions, 2023 Between 1937 and 1945, numerous American journalists became gravely concerned about a rapidly growing Mexican Catholic right-wing movement, the Unión Nacional Sinarquista (UNS).
Julia G. Young
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Religions, 2022 In 1917, in the context of extreme anxiety of a rural Catholic population during a period of war, revolutionary upheaval, and anticlerical politics, the apparition of St Mary to three children near the Portuguese village of Fátima stirred up emotions ...
Arpad Von Klimo
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