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Disrupting the Norm: Looking for Magical Spaces in Science

open access: yesNew Directions for Teaching and Learning, Volume 2025, Issue 184, Page 45-47, Winter 2025.
ABSTRACT Focused on the discipline of biology, this chapter reports on the author's personal and professional revelations around their approach to their discipline as uncovered through participation in a Disrupting interview.
Sarah Hewitt
wiley   +1 more source

Interpretation of the Phelps Creek Petroglyph: Was Mrs. Goddard Splay-footed? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Phelps Creek Petroglyph, an historic rock carving in Ashtabula County, Ohio, is described. Local tradition indicates that it was carved at some time in the late 1800s by a local farmer, William F.
Murphy, James L., 1941-
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Rock Art Tallies: Mathematics on Stone in Western North America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Western North America abounds with rock art sites. From Alberta to New Mexico and from Minnesota to California one can find the enigmatic rock paintings and rock carvings left by the pre-Columbian inhabitants.
Rauff, James V
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Mistletoes as Indicators of the Intensity of Browsing by Large Mammals in Kalahari Savanna

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 6, August 2025.
ABSTRACT The frequency, size and position of the mistletoe Tapinanthus oleifolius in its dominant host's canopy were strongly correlated with the degree of exposure to herbivory by the kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) and especially the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis).
Jeremy J. Midgley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entre dos mundos: los grabados al aire libre de Pena Bicuda de Loureiro (Teo, Galicia, España)

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2015
Abordamos el estudio de un interesante petroglifo prehistórico registrado recientemente, que muestra las habituales combinaciones circulares pero también motivos menos usuales como espirales o un posible ídolo.
Ramón Fábregas Valcarce   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sandstone and Chisel: Three Historic Ohio "Indian" Rock Carvings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Three historic petroglyphs (rock carvings) are described from Ohio, including the Jobes Indian head Rock, Washington Co.; Baughman Park carvings, Licking Co.; the Portsmouth Indian Head Rock, originally in the Ohio River and currently located at ...
Murphy, James L., 1941-
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Biomechanical Analysis of Mongolian Bronze and Iron Age Four‐Legged Walking Petroglyphs

open access: yesNatural Sciences, Volume 5, Issue 3, July 2025.
Top: Photograph (by Krisztián Bécs) of an Iron Age Mongolian rock‐goatpetroglyph. Bottom: ABSTRACT Since the works of Eadweard Muybridge in the 1880s, the characteristics of motion of four‐legged animals are well known for experts of animal locomotion, and the different gaits of many four‐legged species have been investigated in detail.
Krisztián Bécs   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population genetics of Zamia decumbens (Zamiaceae, Cycadales), an endangered cycad from the Maya Mountains of Belize

open access: yesPlant Species Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 324-340, July 2025.
We utilized 10 microsatellite loci to examine the genetic diversity, genetic structure, and demographic history of Zamia decumbens Calonje, Meerman, M.P. Griff. & Hoese, an endangered cycad species occurring in small disjunct populations on karst topography within the Maya Mountains of Belize.
Michael Calonje   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities: Impacts of Advocacy, Organizing and Civic Engagement in New Mexico [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities: Impacts of Advocacy, Organizing and Civic Engagement in New Mexico by Lisa Ranghelli looks at 2003-2007 data from 14 New Mexico nonprofits, which shows high return on investments and successful policy ...
Lisa Ranghelli
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The Lost Large Mammals of Arabia

open access: yesJournal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim If successful, plans to restore the vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (AP) as announced by the Middle East and Saudi Green Initiatives will see the greatest increase in vegetation cover since the beginning of the Holocene Humid Phase (HHP), roughly 9–10,000 years ago.
Christopher Clarke, Sultan M. Alsharif
wiley   +1 more source

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