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Researchers create tool to combat gender bias in children's stories

The Jerusalem Post 04 Jun 2023
Their peer-reviewed study sheds light on the pervasive nature of gender biases within classic fairy tales like Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. For decades, scholars and educators have discussed the impact of fairy tales on children, particularly young girls and their portrayal of sociocultural roles.
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Octopolis And Octlantis Were Created By Engineering Octopuses, But They’re Not “Cities”

IFL Science 01 Jun 2023
Then again, it could just be prime real estate ...   ... tetricus studies for at college, simply a concept that can apply broadly to any organism that influences its environment. The fairy-ring-creating Agaricus arvensis fungus was described as an ecosystem engineer for the way it fosters plant and microbial diversity in Mediterranean grasslands ... .
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Fairy tale job: Niskayuna woman helps clients retake control of their lives

The Daily Gazette 21 May 2023
Pan opened the doors of Carri the Filing Fairy just over 10 years ago in December of 2012 ... For Pan, who has an educational background in human development, elementary and special education, as well as family and multicultural studies, Carri the Filing Fairy has been her shining role.
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Come and Take It Dance brings 'The Sleeping Beauty' to life

The Gonzales Inquirer 19 May 2023
In Act I, King Florestan XIV and Queen celebrate the christening of their daughter, Princess Aurora, with fairies bestowing gifts. Evil fairy Carabosse arrives uninvited, curses Aurora to prick her finger and die on her sixteenth birthday ... The Lilac Fairy appears before Prince Désiré and tells him of Aurora, and they dance together.
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Heather Miller, 42, school leader, synagogue president and founder of The Multitudes

Cleveland Jewish News 16 May 2023
Whether I am channeling the teachings in Pirkei Avot in my daily school leadership or teaching a parsha [Torah portion] study class, my Jewish identity is at the core of how I move through the world ...Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist ... Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” — G.K. Chesterton ... I love horror movies ... -- ... .
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas to attend cousin Parineeti’s engagement to Indian lawmaker Raghav Chadha

Gulf News 12 May 2023
Chopra is known to be guarded about her private life ... IANS, ANI ... A video shared by Bollywood paparazzo Viral Bhayani on Instagram showed the exteriors and balcony of Chopra’s apartment in the upmarket locality of Mumbai’s Bandra brightly lit with fairy lights. The duo studied at the London School of Economics and have been friends for a long time ... .
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Stop trying to make more babies

The Hill 07 May 2023
Studying population fertility rates and responses to them is like reading the children’s fairy tale Goldilocks ... For decades, the global emphasis was on lowering high fertility rates, and it worked ... Jennifer D ... How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World” and senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies ... .
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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

The Guardian 28 Apr 2023
A war between fruit and veg; a colourful study of germs; the world’s most badly behaved fairy; a masterful ghost story from the late Marcus Sedgwick; ...
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Garden tour: Nurturing nature has been retired teacher's passion for 45 years

The Lexington Dispatch 27 Apr 2023
There are also frog, praying mantis, gnome and fairy gardens. So what is her secret to having such a green thumb? Has she studied plants? Taken courses at the community college? No and no ... Look for the fairy and gnome gardens ... Take in all the fairies, gnomes, frogs and butterfly ...
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Henry Homeyer: Dream big and try something new for your garden this season

The Providence Journal 14 Apr 2023
Join a plant society. For starters, you could join a plant society, of which there are many ... The peony I have is called Festiva Maxima, a highly fragrant double-white, with splotches of red inside — blood from a fairy princess, I think. If your grandmother loved roses, study your yard and figure out where one could go in loving memory of her ... 03746 ... .
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Ukraine recap: downbeat US intelligence leak suggests no end in sight for the misery of ...

The Conversation 13 Apr 2023
Institute for the Study of War ... Sophia Moskalenko, who is an expert on the psychology of fairy tales and Mia Bloom, who studies children’s mobilisation into violent extremism – both of them at Georgia State University – acknowledge the power of folklore in shaping the worldview of children and, ultimately, of the adults they grow up to be.
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Kelly Link secures her crown as queen of the literary fairy tale

Vox 10 Apr 2023
Her latest book, White Cat, Black Dog, is a collection of fairy tales that shimmer with unease. A characteristic of the fairy tale is that it refuses to explain itself ... Kelly Link’s short stories are fairy tales in part because she does not force them to explain themselves.
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Ajanta caves, Arrangabad, India, 30 October 2008. painting
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Aboriginal art and knowledge unlock mystery of fairy circles

Phys Dot Org 04 Apr 2023
Fairy circles—barren patches which make polka-dot patterns in dry and desert areas—were first described by scientists in Namibia in the 1970s, sparking global debate about the phenomenon ... Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission.
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How fairy tales shape fighting spirit: Ukraine's children hear bedtime stories of underdog heroes, while ...

The Facts 01 Apr 2023
Those differences were cultivated in part through the fairy tales of their childhoods. One of us, Sophia Moskalenko, is an expert on the psychology of fairy tales. The other, Mia Bloom, studies children’s mobilization into violent extremism – why and how children turn to violence.
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UK Teachers’ strike: Our government can't be trusted

The New Arab 20 Mar 2023
The massive holes in our system cannot be plastered over with colourful displays or fairy lights ... Despite last year’s 5% pay-rise for experienced staff, the Institute for Fiscal Studies holds that teachers are still working for a real-terms pay cut once inflation is factored in.

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