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The honorary research fellow at Cardiff University said he was not surprised that young people who grew up in an environment where your actions end up online have altered behaviour.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
He has seen the classic early 2000s photo dumps on Facebook and thinks "people are romanticising the anonymity of it, as much as the aesthetic".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
"I find it quite scary how easy it's becoming to film people and post them on social media without them even knowing there's a camera."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Burnett said, psychologically, it is unlikely these people would behave as they did in their youth if they had social media where their actions could be preserved.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Antonio and Hanna Damasio, a husband-and-wife team of doctors, regularly see people who remind them of Phineas Gage.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Catholic missionaries arrived, too, and with them came the flourishing of religious art used to inspire and convert the native peoples.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
For Osborne, the tapestry tells a story of destruction and invasion, but also of two nations, two peoples, forever entwined.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Even if ultimately the Ingalls and their neighbors can only slow down the inevitable, they learn to see each other clearly and value what the many hands of many peoples can make.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
In April, he attended the Free Land Camp, the largest annual gathering of Indigenous peoples, in Brasilia, the capital.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Even after the birth of the United States, Native peoples would not get out of the way.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"It's a huge office that was all about men and money, and we've peopled it with a kind of female anarchy, which feels really exciting," said writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz, who set up the project.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
The film is peopled by gaudy clichés in place of real human characters.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
“Horizon” is absurdly over-plotted and peopled with redundant characters, lending it an epic “scope” that aspires to an E.L.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
No less a scribe than William Shakespeare claimed that bees “teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
Sea Dragon Point had not always been as thinly peopled as it was now.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
But he also may have been seeking to expand the notion of the American polity, peopling the Revolutionary moment with groups typically excluded from it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
"People like me who are interested in the peopling of the Americas are very interested in knowing if those first Americans came with dogs," Lanoë added.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
If they’re right, “it resets the playing field of what’s possible” in terms of how archaeologists understand the peopling of the Americas, says Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
He collected stories and wrote his own, often basing them in a fictional town, Centralia, and peopling his tales with characters like Lunchbox, Co-op George, Martin Rosewater and Uncle Grover Bass.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
The fractious archaeological community embraced his ideas with rare unanimity; they rapidly became the standard model for the peopling of the Americas.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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