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Teaching Kids to Not Be Prejudiced, Why Cats Have Vertical Pupils, and a Massive Stonehenge Discovery
Published 5 years, 8 months ago
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Learn about why children develop racial prejudice unless their parents teach them otherwise; why archaeologists studying Stonehenge may have found the largest prehistoric structure in all of Europe; and why cats have vertical pupils.
Children will develop racial prejudice unless their parents teach them otherwise by Kelsey Donk
What white parents get wrong about raising antiracist kids — and how to get it right. (2020, June 25). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/06/25/what-white-parents-get-wrong-about-raising-antiracist-kids-how-get-it-right/
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Archaeologists discover a huge ring of deep pits near Stonehenge by Grant Currin
University of Bradford. (2020, June 22). “Astonishing discovery” near Stonehenge led by University of Bradford archaeologists offers new insight into Neolithic ancestors. https://www.bradford.ac.uk/news/archive/2020/astonishing-discovery-near-stonehenge-led-by-university-of-bradford-archaeologists-offers-new-insight-into-neolithic-ancestors.php
Machemer, T. (2020, June 24). Archaeologists Discover Enormous Ring of Ancient Pits Near Stonehenge. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ring-neolithic-pits-discovered-stonehenge-landscape-180975164/
Neolithic Site Near Stonehenge Yields an ‘Astonishing Discovery.’ (2020, June 22). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/world/europe/stonehenge-trenches-durrington-walls.html
Immense Neolithic Ring Discovered Near Stonehenge. (2020, June 23). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23/881970286/immense-neolithic-ring-discovered-near-stonehenge
Why does my cat have vertical pupils? by Cameron Duke
Pappas, S. (2015, August 7). Why Cats Have Vertical Pupils. Livescience.Com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/51787-why-cats-have-vertical-pupils.html
Banks, M. S., Sprague, W. W., Schmoll, J., Parnell, J. A. Q., & Love, G. D. (2015). Why do animal eyes have pupils of different shapes? Science Advances, 1(7), e1500391. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500391
Ghose, T. (2013, October 16). Feline Vision: How Cats See the World. Livescience.com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/40459-what-do-cats-see.html
Ghose, T. (2013, October 16). Images: See the World from a Cat’s Eyes. Livescience.Com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/40460-images-cat-versus-human-vision.html
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