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TODAY is the first day of registration for the Ohio Genealogical Society Conference! Join me and hundreds of others on April 10-13, 2024 for education, fellowship, fun, and more! This year's theme is "Rockin' Around Your Family Tree" with a 1950s vibe. I will be presenting on the following topics at the conference: * Going Beyond the Internet: How to Research Like a 1950's Genealogist * Researching the Scots-Irish of Pennsylvania * Chasing a Scandalous Ancestor -- A Case Study * Seeing the Greatest Generation in Vivid Color https://lnkd.in/eeyPWG5v

This Saturday's live broadcast of Science Friday will include a discussion of #conservation science in #heritage! From culturally-significant trees to objects conservation, this should be a great set of interviews. As an archaeologist, I love how the sciences in archaeology and heritage effervesce in #popsci and #scicomm. It grabs public interest in powerful ways and the subsequent discussion almost always connects to ethics, values, and critical assessment. What can we know/do? How can we know/do it? Once we know it, how confident can be be in our knowledge? So now what? (Well, almost always. Sometimes. When done well.) Confronting pseudoscience in archaeology can be exhausting. But programs like these generally recharge my batteries for media engagement. Saira Haqqi and Mark Ormsby of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Michael Alonzo from American University and Ryan Alston from the Baltimore Tree Trust Imani Black of Minorities In Aquaculture and Tara Scully of The George Washington University https://lnkd.in/g3ctGs9W https://lnkd.in/gkwZJTEk

"'History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done." - Sydney Harris Western Canadian and North American winters at large, have been intensifying since the 1990s. Will this trend continue and will we once again experience the winter extremes of the 1950s to 1970s as the Pacific tropics continue to be dominated by La Nina amplified Walker Circulation? Only time will tell. https://lnkd.in/grxNR6bK #energysecurity #gridresilience #gridstability #windenergy #solarenergy #powergeneration #meteorology #atmosphere #science #sciencecommunication #scienceeducation #sciencenews #earthscience #earthobservation #canadianenergy #albertaenergy #cdnpoli #abpoli

#Meltology: https://lnkd.in/ePcTFM9m "melted-buildings" in "Our Melted Reality", so you think you may know where you live, how many do you believe are aware, how many understand our position, how many are informing others, what cataclysmic-forces have taken place, do you know this place where you've arrived, have you explored through this "truth-community", their pages, their videos, all their information, have you read through many of these ramblings at these sites, have you had the chance to study through satellite-views, historical-accounts, impactites [rocks], have you seen current narratives, have you compared this to observable events... ...well, what do you think, have you, have we all been indoctrinated with delusion, shall we go over a few once again... you think ,maybe Cortes felt like destroying twelve of his own thirteen ships, then these conquistadors went and buried the massive city of Tenochtitlan, nevermind all the rest, you think maybe a couple volcanoes with nicknames could have fell "sixty-six million years ago", do you wonder what could have emptied Cahokia, Illinois, or what had sank Seattle, wonder why there's an Atlanta and Birmingham underground, was California an island, why did the copper-mines go under, how did fort Jefferson and fort Livingston end up way off in the Gulf, how come so many cities and pyramidal-complexes are covered over with foliage, why do we have so many pictures of so many broken churchbells, & yet many in position have made determination "those churchbells ringing was just a myth", and IF a #comet appears "fifty-percent larger than the Sun", what types of disruption may this cause... -you think it may have been #meteor-impacts... -bring back our lost #Antiquitech-"find the truths behind the myths" #shockdynamics #impactphysics #planetarydefense #educationreform

If history, genealogy, and engineering are topics that interest you, check out this article from WETA about the Italian community that was impacted in Arlington, Virginia related to the construction of the George Washington Parkway. https://lnkd.in/eftV8mt5 Here's another link to more history about the GW Parkway. https://lnkd.in/esn3MTFy

On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we look to the 4 Bundles from "Paddling Upstream" for the needs and recommendations for artists and arts organizations on the path to supporting Indigenous sovereignty. In alignment with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations, "Paddling Upstream" is a valuable resource for a deeper understanding of the space and funding support needed to support the growing Indigenous arts ecology in Ontario. Read Paddling Upstream: https://lnkd.in/dpJYsGdY

📅SAVE THE DATE: "Desert Time" C.J. Alvarez, Associate Professor Mexican American and Latina-o Studies, University of Texas at Austin 4/4 | noon| CTIHB 143 There is a vast desert in the heart of North America, the biggest of its kind on the continent. This dryland is called the Chihuahuan Desert, at least by some. Most people though, in either the United States or Mexico, do not call it by any name and would be hard put to find it on a map. It is an ancient place in the midst of time-illiterate societies, a highly specialized ecosystem populated largely by people stricken with environmental amnesia. This talk is about the history of the desert which is, depending on how you measure, over 8,000 years old. There is no academic discipline, calendrical system, or common vocabulary available to describe this length of time, the lifespan of the desert. This talk proposes, with trepidation and humility, several ways of organizing desert time in the absence of any intrinsically meaningful schema and in the face of a human-centered worldview that too often dominates our imaginations and impoverishes our feel for the world outside our species. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/girUbsdQ

IODP | The Library of Earth's History The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) is a global scientific endeavor that unravels the mysteries of our planet's history and inner workings. This international marine research collaboration harnesses the power of cutting-edge ocean-going research platforms to recover invaluable data encoded within the sediments and rocks that blanket the seafloor. https://lnkd.in/erBUUqgX

#Meltology: https://lnkd.in/edkWpF4A #who can not see, won't even notice, all these structures have been through a recent cataclysmic-event, not so much by any wars, but something much more severe, these buildings have been melted, "fervent-heat", from such a catastrophic-encounter, plasma-release, bow-shock, serial-impact, "fire from the sky", meteors hitting everywhere, not so very long ago... #1812Project: ...close passing #Sungrazer #C1811F1's cometary-catastrophe, one massive bolide resurfacing entire #MississippiEmbayment #Dec16_1811... ...& guess what happens next, #disastercapitalism, #economichitmen make-up a bunch of stories, excuses, [nonsense], "must've been that 'New-Madrid-seismic-zone"?!, -when nothing to argue, even though much the information remains, it is all hidden, hide the bones, torch the libraries, burn the cathedrals, further destroy the cities, starforts become military-posts, lighthouses just for the ships on water, "dem pyramids isa graves", "dem bones isa 65millon-yer-ole!", "credentialed"-indoctrinating this single false-narrative... ...textbooks lacking uncertainty, what all missing question-marks? any other available options, why not a single law anywhere protecting our little students for Accuracy In Academia? charging for lies! why is there so little "accuracy"?, why no legislators to sponsor this bill, get this on docket?.. -#who knows- "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" ;-] -maybe we all should take a look!!! -bring back our lost #Antiquitech-"find the truths behind the myths" #shockdynamics #impactphysics #planetarydefense #educationreform https://lnkd.in/evP4qPHD

Here is the eleventh post in the blog series Rong But Reasonable. In this post, I write about how we study history as a subject. A long-ish read. https://lnkd.in/gBT7qMMX