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Pfyn Culture Flint Tools - Oldest Stone Age Knives with Wooden handles

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A Pfyn culture stone tool with wooden handle from about 3800 B. C. , Matthias HOFFMAN, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg Pfyn culture flint tool:  World's oldest known "Swiss Army Knife" (Kristina KILLGROVE, LiveScience ; April 7, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/pfyn-culture-flint-tool-worlds-oldest-known-swiss-army-knife Skizzen von Fundstücken Ausgrabung Pfyn-Breitenloo 1944 /Sketch of finds from the Pfyn-Breitenloo Excavation site in 1944, Roman KONCZAK ; Link

UN World Water Day 2025 - International Year of Glaciers' Preservation

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  https://www.un.org/en/observances/water-day UN International Day of Glaciers' Preservation   https://www.un-glaciers.org/en Research Article: Disappearing World Heritage Glaciers as a Keystone of Nature Preservation in a Changing Climate (BOSSON et al. , 2019) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2018ef001139 Also... Slowdown of the Motion of the Ocean ( NASA , June 5, 2023) https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-atmosphere/slowdown-of-the-motion-of-the-ocean/ How Melting Arctic Ice affects Ocean Currents ( UCAR - Center for Science Education ) https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/climate-change-impacts/melting-arctic-sea-ice-and-ocean-currents Thermohaline Circulation , cmglee/AVSA et al. ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link   Other Articles : Earth's sediment cycle during the Anthropocene (S YVITSKI et al. , 2022) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Houjie-Wang-3/publication/358273769_Earth%27s_sediment_cycle_during_the_Anthropocene/links/61fe31d8...

Total 'Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse: March 13-14, 2025

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Blood Moon Eclipse (July 27, 2018) ,  Bernd THALLER ;  CC BY-SA 2.0 ,  Link Total lunar eclipse March 2025 - When and where to see "Blood Moon" lunar eclipse (Jamie CARTER, Space.com ; March 10, 2025) https://www.space.com/stargazing/eclipses/total-lunar-eclipse-march-2025-when-and-where-to-see-the-next-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse

Urban Bird Nests Composed of Plastic Waste...

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Nid d'un oiseau recycleur de déchets plastique ,   Clean Heart Sn ;  CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link Plastic waste in bird nests can act like a tiny time capsule (Gennaro TOMMA, Science ; 4 March 2025) https://www.science.org/content/article/plastic-waste-bird-nests-can-act-tiny-time-capsule Featured Research Article: Birds documenting the Anthropocene:  Stratigraphy of plastic in urban bird nests (HIEMESTRA et al. , 2025) https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.70010 Also... Anthropologic nest material use in a global sample of birds (SHEARD et al. , 2024) https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.14078 Life in a polluted world: a global review of anthropogenic materials in bird nests  (JAGIELLO et al. , 2019) https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/media/www/pag-60246/Jagiello%20et%20al%202019_ENVPOL.pdf

Marguerite Thomas WILLIAMS: First Black Woman to Earn a Ph. D. in Geology and More!

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Marguerite Thomas WILLIAMS:  The US' first Black person to obtain a doctorate in Geology ( Anouk BENIEST, EGU Blogs ; August 26, 2020) https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts/2020/08/26/marguerite-thomas-williams-the-us-first-black-person-to-obtain-a-doctorate-in-geology/ Also... The Matilda Effect, or why female role models are needed to drive change ( moeveglobal.com ) https://www.moeveglobal.com/en/planet-energy/2030-goals/matilda-effect-female-role-models-are-needed-to-drive-change Research Articles: The Matilda Effect in Science Communication:  An Experiment on Gender Bias in Publication Quality Perceptions and Collaboration Interest (KNOBLOCH-WESTERWICK et al. , 2013) https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/4/13821/files/2015/05/Hecate-21-nov-2012-2-14yygy1.pdf The Matilda Effect in Science:  Awards and Prizes in the US, 1990s and 2000s  (LINCOLN et al. , 2012) https://advance.washington.edu/liy/sites/default/files/Lincoln%20et%20al.%20%282012%29%20...