Immigrants help make America great

Revivalist Nationalism since World War II: From “Wake up, America!” to “Make America Great Again”

Between 1945 and 1980, evangelicals emerged as a key political constituency in American politics, helping to form the Religious Right and work for the election of Ronald Reagan and other conservative Republicans. This article argues that they embraced a distinctive type of revivalist nationalism, centered around the mass revival. Case studies of Billy Graham, Bill Bright, Jerry Falwell, and Ron...

Mnemonic microRNAs help make memories

L earning and memory depend on the brain’s plasticity, its ability to rewire itself. Lippi et al. reveal that two microRNAs (miRNAs) help the brain maintain this fl exibility by dismantling unneeded synapses between neurons (1). When a rat memorizes the route through a maze or a singer learns the lyrics to a song, the neural changes in their brains typically include growth or modifi cation of d...

America ' s Great Lost Expedition

Until recently the largest and single most significant collection of Hopi Indian art lay buried amidst the dusty recesses of the Peabody Museum. The "Thomas V . Kearn Collection of Hopi Material Culture ," consisting of approximately 4,500 ethnographic objects ranging from prehistoric pots, baskets, and textile fragments to nineteenthcentury wooden tablitas and ceremonial art , was acquired thr...

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Can Analogy Help Children Make Transitive Inference?

This paper is exploring whether analogy-making as an early developing ability could potentially help children to develop deductive reasoning ability and in particular, transitive inference. Two experiments are presented. In the first one transitive mapping is explored further to make sure children at the age of 4 can do the transitive mapping task even when all three objects are hidden and no p...