Jan McVicker
@jmcvicker.bsky.social
Professor, SUNY (English, INDS) focusing on lit/theory/culture/media. Virginia Woolf studies/modernism. Opinions my own.
NPR's Lauren Frayer speaks to Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacie about her new film on the Palestinian uprising against the British army in 1936. It's called "Palestine 36."
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A new film depicts the Palestinian uprising against British colonialism in 1936
NPR's Lauren Frayer speaks to Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacie about her new film on the Palestinian uprising against the British army in 1936. It's called "Palestine 36."
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November 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
NPR's Lauren Frayer speaks to Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacie about her new film on the Palestinian uprising against the British army in 1936. It's called "Palestine 36."
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think people will be hearing a lot more about this film soon...
Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’
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Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’
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Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’
Fresh from a 20-minute ovation at Toronto, the film-maker’s historical drama reveals how Britain’s 1936 crackdown created the blueprint for the ongoing genocide in Gaza
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November 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
think people will be hearing a lot more about this film soon...
Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’
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Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’
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Workers at the drinking water plant in Louisville, Ky. saw a sudden spike in the level of a 'forever chemical.' They traced it up the Ohio River to a factory embroiled in a pollution lawsuit. n.pr/3M80fdi
More cities are seeing PFAS pollution in drinking water. Here's what Louisville found
Workers at the drinking water plant in Louisville, Ky. saw a sudden spike in the level of a 'forever chemical.' They traced it up the Ohio River to a factory embroiled in a pollution lawsuit.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Workers at the drinking water plant in Louisville, Ky. saw a sudden spike in the level of a 'forever chemical.' They traced it up the Ohio River to a factory embroiled in a pollution lawsuit. n.pr/3M80fdi
AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it
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AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it
There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it
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Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
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The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
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Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.
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Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
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David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
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Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
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November 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
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Erykah Badu Says Making Music Is a Sport. It’s Game Time. The singer and songwriter on her reign as one of music’s most idiosyncratic and spiritual figures and where her creative impulses are headed next.
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Erykah Badu Says Making Music Is a Sport. It’s Game Time.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Erykah Badu Says Making Music Is a Sport. It’s Game Time. The singer and songwriter on her reign as one of music’s most idiosyncratic and spiritual figures and where her creative impulses are headed next.
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graft, lies, corruption..
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s AI and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s AI and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
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November 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
graft, lies, corruption..
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s AI and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s AI and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
no contradictions here...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
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November 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
no contradictions here...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why
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Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why
The skyrocketing cost of living has left millions of people struggling to afford a place to live despite working at full-time jobs or a number of part-time jobs. Journalist Brian Goldstone, author of ...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why
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In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
Statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.
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Statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.
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In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
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November 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
Statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.
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Statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.
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In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape.
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Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape.
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In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended
Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape.
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Megalithic monuments in the otherworldly Orkney Islands remain a fundamental part of the landscape.
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for shame...
Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration
The university will pay $75 million to regain its research funding and end investigations, the second highest payment by a school facing pressure from the administration.
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Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration
The university will pay $75 million to regain its research funding and end investigations, the second highest payment by a school facing pressure from the administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration
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November 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
for shame...
Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration
The university will pay $75 million to regain its research funding and end investigations, the second highest payment by a school facing pressure from the administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration
The university will pay $75 million to regain its research funding and end investigations, the second highest payment by a school facing pressure from the administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
meanwhile, fishermen are being blown out of the water
Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran president serving drug trafficking sentence
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Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran president serving drug trafficking sentence
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Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran president serving drug trafficking sentence
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 ye...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
meanwhile, fishermen are being blown out of the water
Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran president serving drug trafficking sentence
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Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran president serving drug trafficking sentence
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Long-overlooked marvel of ancient Indigenous engineering gets validation in Ohio
It is a place some archaeologists say is on par with Stonehenge
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It is a place some archaeologists say is on par with Stonehenge
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Long-overlooked marvel of ancient Indigenous engineering gets validation in Ohio
On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath a golf course in Ohio. It is a place some archaeologists say is on par wit...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Long-overlooked marvel of ancient Indigenous engineering gets validation in Ohio
It is a place some archaeologists say is on par with Stonehenge
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It is a place some archaeologists say is on par with Stonehenge
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Trump’s Response to Shooting Shows Intensified Anti-Migrant Stance
The president is furiously demanding limits on migration and attacking ethnic groups as he steps up his efforts to equate immigration with crime and economic distress.
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The president is furiously demanding limits on migration and attacking ethnic groups as he steps up his efforts to equate immigration with crime and economic distress.
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Trump’s Response to Shooting Shows Intensified Anti-Migrant Stance
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November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trump’s Response to Shooting Shows Intensified Anti-Migrant Stance
The president is furiously demanding limits on migration and attacking ethnic groups as he steps up his efforts to equate immigration with crime and economic distress.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
The president is furiously demanding limits on migration and attacking ethnic groups as he steps up his efforts to equate immigration with crime and economic distress.
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Israeli forces on Thursday killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed "in cold blood." n.pr/44yxUms
Israeli forces kill Palestinian men in West Bank after they appear to surrender
Israeli forces on Thursday killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed "in cold blood."
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November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Israeli forces on Thursday killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed "in cold blood." n.pr/44yxUms
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“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:
A Terrible and Avoidable Tragedy in D.C.
Trump was warned that members of the military could be attacked.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military,” Juliette Kayyem writes, “one of which is the risk of endangering them”:
Rebecca Solnit - An Insult Is a Confession: Notes on Journalism in the Time of Trump
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An Insult Is a Confession: Notes on Journalism in the Time of Trump
There's been a lot of fuss about Trump recently calling female journalists "stupid" and "piggy" though there's nothing really new about his misogyny toward that sub-population (I am so old I remember ...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Rebecca Solnit - An Insult Is a Confession: Notes on Journalism in the Time of Trump
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Retired judges warn that the rule of law is unraveling
In interviews, former state and federal judges warn that democracy’s guardrails may already be weakened as the rule of law begins to falter
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In interviews, former state and federal judges warn that democracy’s guardrails may already be weakened as the rule of law begins to falter
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Retired judges warn that the rule of law is unraveling
In interviews, former state and federal judges describe the consequences when the rule of law begins to falter, warning that democracy’s guardrails may already be weakened.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Retired judges warn that the rule of law is unraveling
In interviews, former state and federal judges warn that democracy’s guardrails may already be weakened as the rule of law begins to falter
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In interviews, former state and federal judges warn that democracy’s guardrails may already be weakened as the rule of law begins to falter
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.
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As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.
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As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.
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Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia
Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks.
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Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks.
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Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia
Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia
Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks.
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Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks.
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Marquetta Shields-Peltier was just a toddler when her father, Leonard Peltier, was jailed in 1976.
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Leonard Peltier’s Daughter Marquetta: My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero
Marquetta Shields-Peltier was just a toddler when her father, Leonard Peltier, was jailed in 1976. During our recent trip to Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, we spoke to Marquetta about th...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Marquetta Shields-Peltier was just a toddler when her father, Leonard Peltier, was jailed in 1976.
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The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
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“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
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The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
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November 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
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“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
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Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?
Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.
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Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?
Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.
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Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?
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November 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?
Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/s...
Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?
Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/s...