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03 October 2017
Investing in Alelo through your IRA

Alelo's FlashFunders offering is a private placement that is eligible for investment through self-directed individual retirement accounts (IRAs). For investors who have accumulated funds in their retirement accounts, this may be an option worth considering.

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21 September 2017
Alelo launches its FlashFunders campaign

In late 2016 we launched Enskill, our next-generation cloud-based platform that provides learning experiences using our virtual-role-playing method. It engages learners in spoken conversations and life-like scenarios with artificially intelligent characters.

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18 July 2016
Applied Anthropology

When I was in graduate school, plenty of people asked me the dreaded question every anthropology student hears: “What are you going to do with that?” The question is a good one. In 2012 Forbes ranked anthropology as the worst college major for getting a well-paying job. In 2011, Florida governor Rick Scott called cited...

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19 May 2016
What is Anthropology?

When I tell people I meet that I’m an anthropologist, I sometimes get a blank stare in return. Occasionally someone will ask if I’ve dug up any cool artifacts lately or if I’m like that lady on the TV show Bones. One acquaintance nicknamed me “Jane Goodall.” Another challenged me to name all of the...

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23 March 2016
What is Culture Shock?

The first time I lived abroad, in Argentina, I wrote an excited letter to an old friend. "I am living in a place that is very similar to the States in most ways," I told him, "and yet everything in daily life takes place in Spanish. More amazing altogether: while there are tons of things...

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24 February 2016
Low- and High-Context Communication

One morning during my fieldwork in Mexico, the dog dragged my freshly washed dress off the line and into the mud. I swore at him under my breath, and a member of the family I was staying with heard me but said nothing.

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