Biblical Waters: Some Miracles May Be Required

April 26, 2021

Some 2,000 years ago, Jesus walked across the Sea of Galilee, according to the Bible. Today, that doesn’t require a miracle.

Home to six percent of the world's population, yet just one percent of the world's freshwater resources, the Middle East needs to take critical action to narrow the gap between water supply and demand.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/11/middleeast/middle-east-water/index.html

Israel’s Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea are dying – What Is Being Done?

https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/israels-sea-of-galilee-and-dead-sea-are-dying-what-is-being-done/

Drought turns the Fertile Crescent into a dust bowl.

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/crisis-in-the-crescent

Is the Sea of Galilee's recent water level rise dangerous?

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/is-the-sea-of-galilees-recent-water-level-rise-dangerous-663520

Sinking Israel-Jordan relations leave Dead Sea, a natural wonder, low and dry

https://www.timesofisrael.com/sinking-israel-jordan-relations-leave-dead-sea-a-natural-wonder-low-and-dry/

Jordan River's holy water is slowly drying up

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/jordan-rivers-holy-water-is-slowly-drying-up/10665436

What Does the Future of the Euphrates Spell for the Middle East?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-does-future-euphrates-spell-middle-east-180967224/

Desalinated water affects the energy equation in the Middle East

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/desalinated-water-affects-the-energy-equation-in-the-middle-east

Is desalination the Sea of Galilee's savior?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-galilee-idUSKCN1NA1EV

Amoebas Again! Fountains of Life Found at the Bottom of the Dead Sea

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/fountains-of-life-found-at-the-bottom-of-the-dead-sea/

Red Sea – Dead Sea: Ambitious plans to join two oceans and transport billions of cubic meters of water per year

https://www.waterworld.com/international/desalination/article/16202588/red-sea-dead-sea-tender-includes-desalination-plant

What's in your faucet??

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Healers and Herbs Throughout History

April 26, 2021

Throughout the ages, people have depended on plants and those who understood them.

An Historical Review of Medicinal Plants’ Usage

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358962/

https://www.planetnatural.com/herb-gardening-guru/history/

The Original Medicinal Plant Gatherers & Conservationists

https://unitedplantsavers.org/the-original-medicinal-plant-gatherers-conservationists/

The Hope of Psychedelic Medicines for Mental Health: Massachusetts General Hospital Establishes New Center To Study Psychedelic Mental Health Treatment

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2021/03/10/mass-general-hospital-center-psychedelic-medicine

https://time.com/5278036/michael-pollan-psychedelic-drugs/

Aboriginal bush medicine heals body and soul

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-aborigines-medicine/aboriginal-bush-medicine-heals-body-and-soul-idUSSYD26920420070903

https://hipages.com.au/article/build_a_healing_garden_with_australian_native_plan

Mexico's Curandero Healers Keeping Indigenous Culture Alive

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/mexico/articles/meet-mexicos-curandero-healers-enacting-surgical-miracles/

Traditional Healing in the Contemporary African Context

https://afro.com/traditional-healing-in-contemporary-context/

23 Medicinal Plants the Native Americans Used Daily

https://efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/references/public/GA/23MedicinalPlantstheNativeAmericansUsedonaDailyBasis.pdf

Health and Medicine in the Viking Age

http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/daily_living/text/health_and_medicine.htm

Ancient medicinal plants of South America

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/23/11087

Ancient Ayahuasca found in 1,000-year-old shamanic pouch

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/ancient-hallucinogens-oldest-ayahuasca-found-shaman-pouch

Mesopotamia

https://www.ancient.eu/article/687/health-care-in-ancient-mesopotamia/

Ayurvedic Healing Traditions

https://www.britannica.com/science/Ayurveda

https://www.copperh2o.com/blogs/blog/ayurvedic-medicine-origin-history-and-principles

10 Great Additions Into Your Daily Recipe

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2016/06/29/top-10-herbs-and-their-health-benefits/

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Ann Kimmerer

https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass

http://www.doebay.net/appeal/Honorable%20Harvest.pdf

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Can Our Oceans Save Us?

April 26, 2021

How much of our earth do the oceans cover? (go look it up!).

How has ocean area changed with different eras in the Earth’s history? (make sure to check out the Precambrian Era).

With that much area and influence on life on Earth, it’s obvious that oceans play an important role in many climates around the world. How can we think about their future - and ours - as we consider climate change?

The Ocean’s Heroic Potential

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/21/opinion/oceans-heroic-potential-could-be-realized-under-biden/

There are Solutions To Climate Change In The Ocean

https://oceanblueproject.org/solutions-to-climate-change-in-the-ocean-urban-ocean/

Bad news. Good news. The ocean report you didn't see.

https://heated.world/p/the-ocean-report-you-didnt-see

Think tank for the future of coastal cities

https://urbanoceanlab.org/

Clean It Up

https://theoceancleanup.com/

A New Reason to Love Bottom Feeders: They Suck Up Carbon

https://www.livescience.com/46084-deep-sea-fish-suck-up-carbon.html

Coronavirus lockdown giving world’s oceans much-needed breathing space

https://environmentjournal.online/articles/coronavirus-lockdown-giving-worlds-oceans-much-needed-breathing-space/

Wetlands are a pivotal part of the natural system

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/habitat-conservation/coastal-wetlands-too-valuable-lose

Rhode Island and Chesapeake Save the Bays

https://www.savebay.org/bay_issues/habitats-and-wildlife/

https://www.chesapeakebay.net/discover/ecosystem/the_estuary_system

Restoring Wetlands Will Prepare Us for Sea Level Rise

https://bayareamonitor.org/article/how-restoring-wetlands-will-prepare-us-for-sea-level-rise/

Mangrove ecosystems support an incredible diversity of creatures and are extremely important to the health of the planet.

https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/plants-algae/mangroves

Urgency of Helping the Oceans Stay Healthy

https://time.com/5863821/saving-the-oceans/

Oceanography and Teaching

https://mirjamglessmer.com/2019/09/04/favourite-quote-by-miriam-goldstein-the-ocean-is-strong-and-powerful-and-it-likes-to-rip-things-up/

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Women Architects Helped Pave the Way

April 26, 2021

Female architects have made a profound impact on architecture as we know it today. What influences - and inspiration - can you find in the work we’ve collected here?

https://www.arch2o.com/5-female-architects-who-shaped-the-history-of-architecture/

https://www.som.com/news/new_website_celebrates_pioneering_women_of_american_architecture

Sheila Sri Prakash, Indian architect

https://sugermint.com/sheila-sri-prakash-indian-architect-founder-of-shilpa-architects/

Lina Bo Bardi -Expressive Architect of 20th Century Brazil.

https://www.archdaily.com/575429/spotlight-lina-bo-bardi

Marion Mahony Griffin, Entwined with Frank Lloyd Wright

https://www.pbs.org/wbgriffin/marion.htm

https://archive.curbed.com/2017/6/8/15755858/marion-mahony-walter-burley-griffin-wright-drawings

Norma Merrick Sklarek, ‘the Rosa Parks of Architecture’

https://www.the-modernist.org/news/2020/6/16/norma-merrick-sklarek-the-rosa-parks-of-architecture

https://pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org/norma-merrick-sklarek/

Anglo-Irish Modernist Eileen Gray

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/eileen-gray-architect-designer

Kazuyo Sejima

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuyo_Sejima

Chilean Architect Sophia Hayden and the Hidden Cost of American Sexism

http://architectuul.com/architect/sophia-hayden-bennett

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/03/considering-history-sophia-hayden-and-the-hidden-cost-of-american-sexism/

Maya Lin: Becoming an American (Architect)

https://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/ap_pjourneys_bio5.html

https://stormking.org/artist/maya-lin/

How did one of Egypt’s leading architects end up walking the red carpet at Cannes?

https://www.kinfolk.com/at-work-with-shahira-fahmy/

Parisian Charlotte Perriand

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/07/charlotte-perriand-le-corbusier-design

Interview With Denise Scott Brown

https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/architect-interview-with-denise-scott-brown_o

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Italy, Milano. first Design Summit, conferenza a palazzo Mezzanotte. Sheila Sri Prakash, Chief Architect and Founder of Shilpa Architects. Credits: Alessandro Grassani/LUZphoto CC by SA-2.0

Lacrosse: From the First Americans to the World

April 26, 2021

What began as stickball, a native American Indian contest played by tribal warriors for training, recreation and religious reasons, has developed over the years into the interscholastic, professional, and international sport of lacrosse.

https://worldlacrosse.sport/about-world-lacrosse/origin-history/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxM5mcuCR8M

https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=history_theses

Iroquois Lacrosse

https://www.facebook.com/TeamIroquoisLacrosse/

13th Annual Tewaaraton Award Celebration, The Year of the Mohawk

https://www.indiantime.net/story/2013/06/06/news/13th-annual-tewaaraton-award-celebration-the-year-of-the-mohawk/10162.html

Where traditional team sport participation is declining, the rise of the girls’ lacrosse has been meteoric.

https://www.heartlandcollegesports.com/2020/09/19/womens-lacrosse-a-new-trend-in-the-usa/

https://3dlacrosse.com/blog/harlem-lacrosse-3d-lacrosse-reaching-new-heights-year-six-partnership-girls-participation-booms

International Lacrosse

https://laxallstars.com/lacrosse-is-played-where-a-world-map-of-international-lacrosse/

https://worldlacrosse.sport/events/world-rankings/

https://www.leagueathletics.com/Page.asp?n=32325&org=denvercitylax.com

The “cross” has changed

https://www.uslaxmagazine.com/fuel/industry/innovation-and-evolution-how-lacrosse-sticks-have-changed

Wooden sticks -then and now

https://www.sutori.com/story/evolution-of-lacrosse-sticks--BrFdaPiGpgVD2tNLvdwiddR1

https://woodlacrossesticks.com/

Going Strong on Akwesasne

https://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/mohawk-lacrosse-still-going-strong-on-akwesasne/21073

Growing and Growing

https://www.nvlax.org/page/show/3277295-lacrosse-growth-news-on-the-growth-of-the-sport

https://www.athleticbusiness.com/programming/lacrosse-increasing-in-popularity-in-midwest.html

Haudenosaunee Women Lacrosse Players: Making Meaning and Embodying Sovereignty

https://ubir.buffalo.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10477/78668/Bassett_buffalo_0656A_16124.pdf?sequence=3

Wall Ball: Tried and true

http://www.stealthlacrosse.com/Page.asp?n=151971&org=girlylax.org

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A Dozen Musical Gems

April 26, 2021

Explore the music of these great artists, influential in their time and well beyond. What influences could they have had on the music you listen to?

1. Billie Holiday: https://youtu.be/Z_1LfT1MvzI

2. Ella Fitzgerald: https://youtu.be/lhg2VlayHTI

3. Duke Ellington Orchestra: https://youtu.be/r95flkZciJ // https://youtu.be/6HFQy9_rY58

4. B. B. King: https://youtu.be/SgXSomPE_FY

5. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: https://youtu.be/gfLVVHxk4IM

6. Louis Armstrong: https://youtu.be/Y5O-oIUXIjo

7. Sister Rosetta Tharpe: https://youtu.be/Y9a49oFalZE

8. Ray Charles: https://youtu.be/fCm9RUV03dc

9. Mahalia Jackson: https://youtu.be/GEOaIfHlSsw

10. Sidney Bechet: https://youtu.be/GCE5IpVOiQU

11. Robert Johnson: https://www.robertjohnsonbluesfoundation.org/biography/

12. Bessie Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT4z847-hyc

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Long and Winding Roads

March 29, 2021

Transportation via roads started with the development of tracks by humans with their trade routes and migratory travel. Around the world, roads have developed, bringing people (and their animals) from place to place. As they have evolved, roads continue to cross open fields and deserts, cut through forests and bogs, and traverse mountain ranges. What are the oldest roads near you? Who has shaped them, and how have they changed over time?

The Appian Way (Latin- Via Appia), the first and most famous of the ancient Roman roads.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Appian-Way

El Camino Real - Traversing New Spain in Modern-day America’s West

https://www.nps.gov/elca/learn/historyculture/index.htm

https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/el_camino_real.php

Japan’s Nakasendo Highway

https://www.japanvisitor.com/japan-city-guides/nakasendo-highway

https://www.audleytravel.com/us/japan/things-to-do/walking-the-nakasendo-highway

The History of Road Transport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_road_transport

The Appalachian Trail

https://appalachiantrail.org/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tales-from-the-appalachian-trail-34902244/

https://appalachiantrail.org/explore/

The Trans-African Highway

https://www.inonafrica.com/2018/07/10/in-fits-and-starts-the-trans-african-highway-extends-its-reach/

Tizi n'Tichka, “the difficult mountain pass”

https://www.dangerousroads.org/africa/morocco/2738-tizi-ntichka.html

Time Traveling in Marrakech

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/04/marrakech-fascinating-history

Regional Native American Trails

https://guides.loc.gov/native-american-spaces/published-sources/trails

Six New England Indian Trails That Turned Into Scenic Highways

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/six-indian-trails-turned-scenic-highways-byways/

Native American infrastructure that helped make Chicago a successful city

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/17/native-american-routes-the-ancient-trails-hidden-in-chicagos-grid-system

The Silk Road

https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/about-silk-roads

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Silk-Road-trade-route

El Camino de Santiago

https://americanpilgrims.org/history-of-the-camino/

https://caminoways.com/camino-de-santiago

The World’s Oldest Roads

https://www.dangerousroads.org/around-the-world/statistics-and-facts/8511-the-oldest-roads-in-the-world.html

The Lincoln Highway: The first transcontinental road for automobiles in the United States.

https://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/

U.S. Highway 66 -- popularly known as Route 66 or the Mother Road -- holds a special place in American consciousness

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/travelroute66/index.htm

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/66-historybeyond/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/route-66/

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Connecting through Computer Networking

December 23, 2020

With so many of us carrying computers in our pockets, it might be easy to imagine they’re stand-alone devices. However, they are connected to each other - and they connect us all - through wired and wireless technologies. How do we network different types of computers? At scale, do the computer networks we use harm the environment? What will the future of computer networks look like? To explore these questions, look through the resources below!

What IS Computer Networking?

https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-computer-networking-816249

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network

Ok, so how do you network computers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKfk7YFILws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSodBEAJz9Y

https://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-networking-channel.htm

Is a “mesh network” better for you home than a traditional wifi router?

https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/659354/mesh-wi-fi-vs-traditional-routers-which-better/

https://www.howtogeek.com/336045/how-secure-are-mesh-wi-fi-networks/

High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed With Cutting-Edge Cables

https://www.wsj.com/articles/high-frequency-traders-push-closer-to-light-speed-with-cutting-edge-cables-11608028200

The data centers that enable cloud computing eat up enormous amounts of energy—much of which comes from fossil fuels. By 2030, data center demand could reach 13% of the world’s total electricity consumption

https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/6/1/117

Training one natural language processing pipeline can emit over 78,000 lbs of CO2 equivalent. That's more than the average human's climate change impact over a two-year period

https://link.morningbrew.com/click/22247542.120122/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcnhpdi5vcmcvcGRmLzE5MDYuMDIyNDMucGRmP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bW9ybmluZ19icmV3/5e04e02f0564ce053c5fe0c6Bbe702715

The massive amounts of data to sort through will only increase as we inch closer to climate change’s “point of no return.” The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration alone collects ~20 terabytes of data daily
https://environment-review.yale.edu/too-little-too-late-carbon-emissions-and-point-no-return

According to Microsoft’s Project Natick, storing data centers below the ocean could be instrumental in reducing their energy consumption

https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick-underwater-datacenter/

One of the first computer networking successes was in 1940, when George Stibitz used a teletype machine to send data to a remote complex number calculator

https://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-networking-pictures.htm

https://www.pcr-online.biz/2016/02/11/a-brief-history-of-computer-networking/

Computer Networks and the Internet of Things

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2014/06/18/a-very-short-history-of-the-internet-of-things/?sh=69df15af10de

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The Growing Need for Astrobiology

December 23, 2020

How was life created in the universe? Can other planets sustain life (or do they already?). Increasing space exploration could make this era the ‘time of the astrobiologists.’ These folks explore the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.

NASA Explains the Field

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/what-is-astrobiology

Watch "Ask An Astrobiologist: NASA's Dragonfly Mission to Titan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Os67j7gNs&feature=youtu.be

Are We Alone in the Universe?

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/are-we-alone-universe-rutgers-professor-explores-possibility-life-mars-and-beyond

As a Career -One of the Hottest New College Majors… Exploring new worlds: U Illinois Alumna Kennda Lynch Creates a Career in Astrobiology

https://ise.illinois.edu/newsroom/article/kennda-lynch

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/career-path-suggestions/

5 Incredible Breakthroughs in Astrobiology (And Why They Matter)

https://news.fit.edu/academics-research/5-incredible-breakthroughs-astrobiology/

The SETI Institute

https://www.seti.org/research/Astrobiology

Japan's Hayabusa2 mission delivers the first subsurface steroid samples to Earth

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-japan-hayabusa2-mission-deliver-ryugu-asteroid-samples-earth-live-stream-today-2020-12-05/

How Hayabusa Gets it Done

https://www.planetary.org/video/how-hayabusa2-will-return-samples-from-ryugu-to-earth

COMING UP SOON- Watch!!: A Rainbow of Exo Planets

https://www.seti.org/event/seti-talks-rainbow-exoplanets

Our Place in the Universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Sh9IjoPzQ

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The Conga Drum: Cornerstone of Latin Rhythms

December 23, 2020

When you hear the word ‘conga,’ you might think of the dance, or you might also think of the drum that’s key to the rhythm of Conga music. The Conga drum, invented by Cuban people of African descent, is only about 200 years old. In that time, how has this music evolved, and what rhythms might inform its future?

History and Giants

https://www.ipassio.com/hobbies/percussion-instruments/congas

Chino Pozo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chano_Pozo

https://peoplepill.com/people/chino-pozo/

Ray Barreto-Jazz, Latin Giant: El Rey la Las Manos Duras

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5221802

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia0PpA4WnEQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMzv7h61F-4

Giovanni Hidalgo

https://www.discussionsinpercussion.com/home/2019/3/13/115-giovanni-hidalgo-master-percussionist-aka-goat

Descendant of African drums

http://artdrum.com/HISTORY_OF_CONGA_DRUMS.htm

How Conga drums are made (YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQaWqaENf88

World Percussion

https://remo.com/experience/world-percussion/

Timbales

https://www.ipassio.com/hobbies/percussion-instruments/timbale

Timbales and conga videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MOFoGySmEA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwz9f66uR5s

Bongos

https://www.x8drums.com/v/blog/2007/03/history-of-bongo-drum.asp

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Sinking Your Teeth Into Dentistry

November 30, 2020

Teeth! They start forming by the 6th 8th week of prenatal development and we have them (hopefully) the rest of our lives. Dentistry, the branch of medicine involving the teeth and jaws, is vital and complicated. In the links below, look at how people have taken care of their teeth for thousands of years, and what might be on the horizon of dental hygiene.

History of Dental Treatments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_dental_treatments

https://projectarchaeology.org/2020/05/01/ancient-dentistry/

Solving Crimes via Dentistry? Forensic Odontology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y12JxtlFERo

https://innocenceproject.org/bite-mark-experts-recant-in-kunco-rape-case/

https://trustdentalcare.com/three-most-famous-cases-solved-by-forensic-dentistry/

https://forensic-odontology.weebly.com/cases.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKeEbVLZNWc

Sports Dentistry

https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/dental-emergencies-and-sports-safety/sports-dentistry-athletes-need-dentists

https://www.olympic.org/sportdental

History of Orthodontics

https://www.bos.org.uk/Museum-and-Archive/History-of-Orthodontics

https://www.colgate.com/en-us/oral-health/early-orthodontics/interesting-facts-from-the-history-of-orthodontics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_dental_treatments

Does your Dog Need a Dentist too? Veterinary Dentistry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary_dentistry

Trained dentists didn’t exist until the 1800s and prior to that, the nation’s mouths was in the hands of blacksmiths and barbers who doubled as surgeons.

https://truewestmagazine.com/frontier-dentistry/

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/books/17garn.html

It's Really Important to Be Organized in the Office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYYKL2dGoA

We know good dental health is good for you, but what does that really mean?

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-depth/dental/art-20047475

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/24/health/fda-dental-amalgam-health-warning/index.html

Wait, what do they add to our water??

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/water-fluoridation-and-cancer-risk.html

In 2010 - 2013, news said that New Hampshire would face a dental shortage. Why? And have we fixed it?

https://www.nhbr.com/does-n-h-face-a-pending-dentist-shortage/

https://www.nhbr.com/legislature-could-ease-states-dental-shortage/

Artificial Intelligence and my teeth?? Technology and Dentistry

https://healthcareinamerica.us/the-future-of-dentistry-how-technology-will-transform-dental-practice-794eebcb0843?gi=fa792d7a8ea3

Memoirs

The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir

Dental Inequality

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/upshot/how-dental-inequality-hurts-americans.html

Dental deserts: Rural folks and lack of dental care

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/06/07/feature/rural-america-has-too-few-dentists-but-also-too-few-jobs-to-create-paying-patients/

https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/charts/9

https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/dental-health-professional-shortage-areas.aspx

https://hsdm.harvard.edu/news/hsdm-secures-3-million-grant-expand-dental-public-health-rural-areas

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dentist?

https://www.dentalfearcentral.org/

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November is Native American Indian Heritage Month

November 30, 2020

There are 573 federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States. From the Abenaki to the Zuni, Blackfeet to the Pennacook, there is no one ‘Native’ person - there are different cultures, belief systems, histories, and contemporary art that we can all learn from. While November is Native American Indian Heritage Month, you can explore these links year round.

November is Native American Indian Heritage Month

https://www.pbs.org/specials/native-american-heritage-month/

It May Not Be What You Think

https://www.hoover.org/research/native-american-heritage-its-not-what-you-think

Indigenous Tik Tok Artists

@the_land

@notoriouscree

5 Indigenous TikTok accounts that deserve an immediate follow

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/indigenous-tiktok-star-michelle-chubb-embraces-vulnerability-interview

Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces

https://americanindian.si.edu/why-we-serve/

Warrior Spirit - article by Ellen Baumler

Resources for Teaching About American Indians in the Military

Death by Civilization: Thousands of Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools created to deprive them of their culture.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/traumatic-legacy-indian-boarding-schools/584293/

https://boardingschoolhealing.org/education/us-indian-boarding-school-history/

Thousands of students attended Carlisle during its 39 years of operation as a boarding school for Native students. Their stories live on through their descendants.

https://carlisleindianschoolproject.com/

Eulynda Toledo-Benalli Has Devoted Her Life to Saving Diné Knowledge

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/facing-legacy-boarding-schools

Students at the Ahkwesashne Freedom School take a look at the Maple Tree and its importance to their community

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE71zOF5wiU

Truth and Reconciliation: The Findings on Wabanaki Child Welfare in the State of Maine

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/truth-and-reconciliation-findings-wabanaki-child-welfare

The Real Legacy of Crazy Horse: The Oglala Sioux leader prophesied an economic, spiritual, and social renaissance among Native American youth

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/the-real-legacy-of-crazy-horse/534924/

Ruth Muskrat Bronson — Poet, Educator and Native American Rights Activist

https://amysmartgirls.com/happy-birthday-ruth-muskrat-bronson-poet-educator-and-native-american-rights-activist-b1d516babe23

Native American Ledger Art

https://www.mpm.edu/research-collections/anthropology/online-collections-research/ledger-art-collection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX0hpiLP-FY&list=PLYSMxORqGlAnUavwtLkCDh4XiqfHgWTMl&index=3

https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/search-collections?piction_obj_name=Ledger%20Drawing&piction_photos_only=1

In 2015, Temprano founded Native Land—an interactive digital map that shows which Indigenous groups resided in any given area centuries ago (or even to this day).

https://native-land.ca/

Much of what is now New Hampshire has been lived in by the Abenaki for over 10,000 years

NH Abenaki Heritage Weekend 2016

https://www.nh.gov/folklife/learning-center/traditions/native-american.htm

Nebi: Abenaki Ways of Knowing Water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abenaki

Saving the Cherokee Language

http://therevivalist.info/saving-the-cherokee-language/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9y8fDOLsO4&feature=youtu.be

Preserving Indigenous Languages

http://endangeredlanguages.com/

http://www.ourmothertongues.org/Home.aspx

https://www.firstvoices.com/

https://www.alaskanativelanguages.org/

Geronimo’s Cadillac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd0RusyIBWU

Indigenous Podcasts

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/at-home/indigenous-podcasts.html

In 1906, American photographer Edward S. Curtis was offered $75,000 by financier J. P. Morgan to produce a series on North American Indians (Native Americans) and their culture

https://mymodernmet.com/edward-s-curtis-the-north-american-indian/

http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/

A federal court case could have a sweeping impact on Native families and tribal sovereignty.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/2/20/21131387/indian-child-welfare-act-court-case-foster-care

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/health/navajo-children-custody-fight.html

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The Last Straws for Our Environment?

November 10, 2020

Plastic straws - how could such small items create such big controversies?

Fact Check: How many straws do Americans actually use in a day?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/business/plastic-straws-ban-fact-check-nyt.html

Where do drinking our straws fit into the array of environmental challenges?

https://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/ccd/history.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/plastic-straws-are-little-but-they-are-part-of-a-huge-problem/2018/09/07/63bfe44e-ac9f-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html

https://www.1millionwomen.com.au/blog/straws-why-they-seriously-suck/

A Brief History of the Straw: Beginning with: When Straws Were Actually Straw

https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/article/history-of-the-straw/amp

https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-drinking-straws-1992399

The Science of Straws: Getting the Atmosphere to Work for You

https://www.indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/drinking-straws-work.php

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-does-drinking-straw-work

The Strange Invention of the Bendy Straw

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/the-amazing-history-and-the-strange-invention-of-the-bendy-straw/248923/

How plastic straws took over the world

https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/environment/2018/07/news-plastic-drinking-straw-history-ban

How L.A. Bars and Restaurants Have Adjusted to the Plastic Straw Ban (and So Can You)

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/plastic-straw-ban-solutions/

Straw Bans: Unintended Discrimination?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/11/health/plastic-straw-bans-disabled-trnd/index.html

https://time.com/5335955/plastic-straws-disabled/

https://www.today.com/health/plastic-straw-bans-hurt-kids-adults-disabilities-advocates-say-t158808

Plastic Straw Alternatives

https://yesstraws.com/blogs/news/19-plastic-straw-alternatives

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-05/the-fight-for-paper-straws-is-getting-fierce-in-new-york-bars

https://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-rreusable-straws.html

Starbucks Bans Plastics Straws, Winds up Using More Plastic Overall

https://reason.com/2018/07/12/starbucks-straw-ban-will-see-the-company/

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/plastic-alternatives-doing-harm/

Tray? Check. Spork? Check. Napkin? Check. But No More Plastic Straws In Miami-Dade School Cafeterias

https://www.wlrn.org/education/2020-03-10/spork-check-napkin-check-but-no-more-plastic-straws-in-miami-dade-school-cafeterias

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The War of the Two Brothers: The Division and Downfall of the Inca Empire

November 10, 2020

Huascar & Atahualpa were two brothers, vying for control of the Incan Empire. Their feud included military betrayal, geographic allegiances, and the slaughter of innocents. As one became the clear successor to the throne, Spaniard Francisco Pizarro arrived. What happened next destroyed the entire Incan Empire…

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/war-two-brothers-division-and-downfall-inca-empire-004745

https://www.saexpeditions.com/blog/post/huascar-and-atahualpa-the-inca-civil-war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6jVIoDge8I

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Huascar-Inca-chieftain

With fewer than 200 men against several thousand, Pizarro lured Atahualpa to a feast in the emperor’s honor and then opened fire on the unarmed Incas.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pizarro-traps-incan-emperor-atahualpa\

Pizarro executes last Inca emperor

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pizarro-executes-last-inca-emperor

PBS Nova - The Lost Inca Empire

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/lost-inca-empire/

Eduardo Galeano was one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers, the author of an astounding three-volume history of the Americas, Memory of Fire

https://www.thenation.com/authors/eduardo-galeano/

http://www.columbia.edu/~ey2172/galeano.html

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Increasing Threats from Wildfires

September 09, 2020

The burning issue: managing wildfire risk. What happens when thousands, even millions, of acres burn? After a wildfire rages through an area, the ecosystem is disrupted - but is it actually healthier because of what’s now able to grow? Over millennia, people have worked with fire in keeping forests healthy - is our contemporary Smokey the Bear really the best mascot for management? With maps, data, and information below, see what sense you can make out of how we should handle wildfires to come.

Climate Change Has Doubled the Number of Wildfires

https://www.c2es.org/content/wildfires-and-climate-change/

https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2019/sep/the-burning-issue-managing-wildfire-risk.html

The year rainforests burned

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/12/2019-the-year-rainforests-burned/

More countries than ever hit by forest fires

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-countries-forest.html

Wildfires in South America from January to August 2020, by country or territory

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043895/number-wildfires-south-america-country/

What makes California burn so much?

https://abc7.com/what-causes-wildfires-cal-fire-california-ca/6381945/

Active Fire Mapping-Large incident map

https://fsapps.nwcg.gov/afm/

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/

People and Forests

https://www.fs.usda.gov/science-technology/people-forests

Managing Fires

https://www.fs.usda.gov/science-technology/fire

Wildfire Support from 438 Miles Above

https://www.usgs.gov/news/wildfire-support-438-miles-above

For Help, Australia Looks to Aboriginal Practices

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/01/13/australia-fires-aboriginal-land-management/

In U.S., Native Tribes Are Taking Fire Control Into Their Own Hands

https://www.wired.com/story/wildfires-native-tribes-controlled-burns/

https://www.bia.gov/bia/ots/dfwfm/bwfm/forestry-fire-management-stories/confederated-salish-and-kootenai-tribes-make

Native approaches to fire management could revitalize communities

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/27/traditional-fire-management-help-revitalize-american-indian-cultures/

Introduction to Fire Ecology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xjVXybavO0

Where the Forests Fall, the Grasses Grow

https://www.usgs.gov/land-resources/eros/lcmap/science/lcmap-change-stories-where-forests-fall-grasses-grow?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects

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Our Old Friend NaCl and Some Cool Salty Places Around the Globe

August 24, 2020

Salt: a compound, a taste, a mineral, a treasure. When we’re cooking, we don’t want too much, nor too little. Wars have been fought over salt, expressions created about it (“he’s worth his salt”), and all sorts of superstitions about throwing it over your shoulder. What more do you know about our friend NaCl?

It's been a big deal for humans.

https://www.mashed.com/160965/the-untold-truth-of-salt/

https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/chemical/chemistry-and-seawater/salty-sea/weird-science-salt-essential-life

Everyone needs salt for fluid balance, muscle and nerve function. How much do we need?

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/146677

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-body-regulates-salt-levels

How Salt Has Shaped Our Landscape

https://www.saltassociation.co.uk/education/physical-geography-salt-shaped-landscape/

Salar de Uyuni- the World’s Largest Salt Flat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salar-de-uyuni-bolivian-salt-flat

Uyuni stargazing tour - Night Sky Reflections from the World's Largest Mirror

https://www.rutaverdebolivia.com/tour/uyuni-stargazing-tour/

https://science.nasa.gov/night-sky-reflections-worlds-largest-mirror

Where Does the Ocean Get its Salt?

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/exploring-our-ocean/0/steps/730

A Luxury Salt?

https://www.dandelionchandelier.com/2019/09/15/luxury-salt/

Freshwater Is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/freshwater-is-getting-saltier-threatening-people-and-wildlife/

The Salt Flats of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

https://www.tpl.org/our-work/cabo-rojo-salt-flats

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah: Flats are as solid as concrete, ideally suited for speed trials; several world automobile and motorcycle speed and endurance records have been established there

https://www.britannica.com/place/Bonneville-Salt-Flats

https://utah.com/bonneville-salt-flats

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/super-mario-kart-and-the-bonneville-salt-flats/id1342003491?i=1000409944879

Salinas Grandes, Argentina

https://argentina-travel-blog.sayhueque.com/salinas-grandes-salta-province/

“Man can live without gold, but he can’t live without salt”: Stuff You Should Know (Podcast)

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/how-salt-works-29467958/

Why does salt make food taste better? (SciShow Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATrSoMlx5PE

The largest body of water in California was formed by a mistake. In 1905, the California Development Company accidentally flooded a huge depression in the Sonora Desert, creating an enormous salty lake called the Salton Sea.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/sea-worth-salt/

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A Tapestry of Latino and Hispanic Heritage

August 04, 2020

As of 2018, the Census Bureau estimates that about 18% of the US population - almost 60 million people - identify as Hispanic. The second-oldest ethnic group (Native Americans being the oldest), Hispanic and Latino people continue to shape our world through their longstanding and rich heritage, transformative innovations, and influential figures.

An Historic Overview of Latino Immigration to the U.S.

https://www.nps.gov/heritageinitiatives/latino/latinothemestudy/immigration.htm

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/puerto-rican-migration-to-the-us

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/cuban-immigration-after-the-revolution-1959-1973

A Timeline of Latino Americans

https://www.pbs.org/latino-americans/en/timeline/

Latina Pioneers of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries

https://www.biography.com/news/sonia-sotomayor-latina-firsts-pioneers

Latino Innovators, Inventions, and Inventors

https://wearemitu.com/things-that-matter/latino-innovators-pioneers-tech-sports/

https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/inventors-entrepreneurs/hispanic-heritage-and-inventions

Key persons, events, and associations in the history of Latino Psychology

https://study.com/academy/answer/synopsis-of-key-persons-events-and-associations-in-the-history-of-latino-psychology.html

Latino activists push for solidarity with Black community

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-14/la-me-latino-support-george-floyd-protests

Latin American and Latino Musicians and their Traditions

https://music.si.edu/story/exhibiting-music-history-us-exhibits-latin-american-and-latino-musicians-and-their-traditions

https://www.britannica.com/art/Latin-American-music

Hispanic Music Festivals in the United States

https://www.onetravel.com/going-places/hispanic-music-festivals-in-the-us/

Latinos in Chicago

https://scalar.usc.edu/works/latino-metropolis-a-brief-urban-cultural-history-of-us-latinos---1/timeline

Latinos in New England: Aqui Estamos

http://www.nuestrasraicesri.org/LatinosinNE1.html

Hispanics in The U.S. Army

https://www.army.mil/hispanics/history.html

https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/latino-patriots-in-american-military-history-patriotas-latinos-en-la-historia-militar-estadounidense/99Px4jCpR4RKUidj#r

Colorado Hispanic / Latino Historical Overview

https://www.historycolorado.org/colorado-hispanic-latino-historical-overview

Fabiola Mendez Brings Puerto Rican Cuatro Music

https://amp.wbur.org/artery/2019/10/25/fabiola-mendez-berklee-puerto-rico-cuatro

The Chicago Cuatro Orchestra

https://www.theccoproject.org/about-us.html

Latin Dances

https://www.danceus.org/latin-dance/

Latino History of Washington State

https://www.historylink.org/File/7901

The United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Strike

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-united-farm-workers-and-the-delano-grape-strike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez

Latino USA (Podcast)

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510016/latino-usa

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Mars: More thinking about our planetary sidekick

July 23, 2020

Mars, the fourth planet from the sun. Could humans find ourselves living there someday? What makes it red in color, and how like Earth is it really? Why does it play a role in so many mythologies (and alien stories)? For thousands of years, the enduring and mysterious appeal of Mars has reflected our hopes and dreams (and, at times, our fears). What do you think YOU could learn from the Red Planet?

Can Mars exploration improve life on Earth?

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/could-mars-exploration-improve-life-on-earth/

Sibling Rivalry: A Mars/Earth Comparison

https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/Sibling_Rivalry.html

Overview of Search for Life on Mars

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00108/full

Interview: Countdown to Mars -Dr. Kennda Lynch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-FC-s4MXvE

Interview: Countdown to Mars: Dr. Mackenzie Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d1OGKahk4g

Acid saline lakes are good Mars analogues

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23971647/

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2010JE003687

The enduring and mysterious appeal of Mars

https://www.powells.com/searchresults?keyword=sirens+of+mars

Interactive Map of Mars - the geographic features and objects humans have left there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Features_and_artificial_objects_on_Mars

Halite from South Australia suggests Mars landscape.

https://www.mindat.org/locentries.php?m=1804&p=12222

The origin of acidity in southern Western Australia

https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/25/6/article/i1052-5173-25-6-4.htm

Revealed: How a spacecraft will bring Mars rocks to Earth

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01114-0

Listen to the InSight Explorer Journey in this podcast from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sets/on-a-mission

BBC Radio 4 explores the Red Planet of our dreams… and maybe, our futures…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04t360q

At Home on Mars

https://www.hillarys.co.uk/static/home-on-mars/

Mars Teacher Activity Resources

https://mars.nasa.gov/classroom/pdfs/MSIP-MarsActivities.pdf

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Good vs. Evil: Jellyfish Spark Debate

June 25, 2020

In Japan, jellyfish 6-ft wide are clogging fishing nets and power plant intakes. In Wisconsin, scientists are studying how jellyfish proteins might help treat Alzheimer’s disease. Across the world’s oceans, jellyfish could potentially help clean up plastics.

Could jellyfish play an essential role in the future of our planet - by destroying it or by saving it?

The term "jellyfish" is a slippery one.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39764288/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/good-vs-evil-jellyfish-swarms-spark-debate/

Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/jellyfish_swarms_are_bad_news_for_ocean_ecosystems/

https://www.fastcompany.com/90362601/jellyfish-are-booming-because-of-climate-change-and-human-activity

What Jellyfish Can Teach Us About the Oceans’ Future

https://therevelator.org/spineless-jellyfish/

Many jellies have evolved unique abilities

https://theconversation.com/jellyfish-have-superpowers-and-other-reasons-they-dont-deserve-their-bad-reputation-88746

Brainless Creatures Can do Some Incredibly Smart Things

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/05/life-without-brains-smart-slime-molds-plants-jellyfish-osr-science/

Brain Research Supports Drug Development From Jellyfish Protein

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061027183731.htm

Brains of simple sea animals could help cure neural disorders

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nature-combjellies-idUSKBN0E123O20140521

Scientists believe jellyfish could help rid our waters of plastic waste

https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/09/13/scientists-believe-jellyfish-could-help-rid-our-waters-of-plastic-waste/

A gelatinous solution to plastic pollution

https://gojelly.eu/

Can Jellyfish Unlock Secrets of Immortality?

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html

A surprising variety of sea creatures feed on jellyfish, and that their growing populations may not be so bad

https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/animals/2019/01/many-ocean-creatures-surprisingly-eat-jellyfish

Jellyfish can grow back into their juvenile stage when resources are scarce, reproduce in massive groups and kill an adult human. (Podcast)

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/jellyfish-even-cooler-than-octopi-29467347/

Identify that Jelly

https://www.vims.edu/bayinfo/jellyfish/guide/index.php

Jellyfish 101 (Video from National Geographic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z8ujpPgUjI

What species of jellyfish are you most interested in learning more about? Could they change the world as we know it?

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The Wonders of the WPA

June 16, 2020

Formed in 1935, during the middle of The Great Depression, the works Progress ASsociation (WPA for short) employed 8.5 million people in its 8 years of existence. What legacies of this initiative still impact our world today?

The WPA revived America, provided employment, and preserved/reflected the culture of the times.

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/works-progress-administration

https://www.gjenvick.com/WPA/ProgressReports/1936-10-15/B03-PublicBuildingsProjects.html

In The 1930s, Works Program Spelled HOPE For Millions Of Jobless Americans

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/04/826909516/in-the-1930s-works-program-spelled-hope-for-millions-of-jobless-americans

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/surviving-the-dust-bowl-works-progress-administration-wpa/

https://www.curbed.com/2017/1/19/14323824/new-deal-architecture-wpa-pwa-hoover-dam

How Did The WPA Change U.S. Infrastructure? “It Did Just About Everything”

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/01/16/wpa-us-infrastructure

The Arts in the WPA

https://m.theartstory.org/definition/federal-art-project-of-the-works-progress-administration/

FDR’s Legacy of Recovery

https://fdr4freedoms.org/hope-recovery-reform/

https://www.post-gazette.com/local/west/2012/07/06/Great-Depression-program-still-benefiting-Americans-today/stories/201207060217

The “New Deal” in New Hampshire

https://livingnewdeal.org/us/nh/page/4/

New Mexico History: The Depression and WPA Art