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No Paper Needed: Anthropology Association Builds New Review System

Associations Now

By building a new digital system intended to cut the time needed for academic reviews of books, the American Anthropological Association hopes to refine digital workflows and save money. The association’s new platform will be built on an existing open-source platform, the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Journal Systems.

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Where the Great Places Are: Association Lists Top Neighborhoods, Streets, Spaces

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” Lincoln Trails Network, Lincoln, Nebraska: You’ll never be lacking for trails if you visit Lincoln. The city’s 131 miles of paths serve as something of an artery system for the city, reaching every corner of the metro area—which is all the more impressive when you consider that work only started on the trails in 1978.

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Small-Scale Mobile Carriers Boost Signal With Collective Clout

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” Berry noted that the system also had the side effect of making networks owned by smaller regional carriers operate more effectively with one another. . ” Berry noted that the system also had the side effect of making networks owned by smaller regional carriers operate more effectively with one another.

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Future of Work Manifesto

Jamie Notter

Maddie is the one who wrote it up, but it was the result of a weekend retreat last fall of twelve people (including me, Maddie and Charlie; Maddie lists them all in her post) in, of all places, Omaha, Nebraska. We will feel a sense of belonging and purpose if we’re involved in the direction and purpose of the system.

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Mo Rocca on Creativity, Comedy, and Obit Con vs Comic Con

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But it’s so that’s one thing I I actually lost my voice at one point because I was doing so many interviews and I was talking If I needed you know, somebody in Nebraska to hear me without any amplification hear me? We’re on stream yard. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, so that’s, that’s one of the adjustments. Hopefully we’ll make it. . And she sued.

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How One Advocacy Group Is Making the Case for Open Primaries in New Mexico

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New Mexico Open Primaries , a group headed by onetime Democratic state legislator Bob Perls, is arguing that the system in place now puts independent and third-party voters and candidates at a disadvantage. An advocacy group in New Mexico is making the case for the Land of Enchantment to embrace them.