How to Resurrect Dying Languages
Community activists are using creative methods to revive endangered languages and reawaken dormant ones.
How to Resurrect Dying Languages
Preservation
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Witnessing an Endangered Puberty Ritual
In an Indigenous community in Peru, a girl’s first menstruation is accompanied by a “boot camp” during which she’s trained in how to be a woman—but that tradition is ebbing away.
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Is Space a Human Place?
For millennia, Homo sapiens have looked up at the stars—but only recently have we started to consider what it will be like to live among them.
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Closer to Home
What can squatting—occupying otherwise unoccupied buildings without any title, right, or payment—teach us about how cities work?
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Surviving Climate Change in Italy
Chestnut trees provide a key insight into how people can prepare for the storms that are growing increasingly destructive as a result of climate change.
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The Race to Recover South America’s Ancient Past
In the face of development pressure and climate change, researchers are toiling to find and preserve ancient sites in Peru that hold clues to how people first traversed a continent.