Gawker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Are you either moving to or leaving New York, and need to match up your precious little neighborhood with a corresponding one in a new city, so that you won't have to go without your organic muffin...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
One-man gentrification-play performer Danny Hoch, profiled in the Observer today, has lived in the neighborhood for twenty years. He's fascinated by the collision of the formerly downtrodden area's...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
New York is developing at a dizzying pace, with new glass-and-steel buildings popping up seemingly every day—and in unexpected places, like the Lower East Side and Brooklyn. While some streets...
Anthropology.net (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Razib has chimed in on the latest piece of research to come from John Lukacs, “Fertility and Agriculture Accentuate Sex Differences in Dental Caries Rates,” published in Current Anthropology. Throughout time, women have had more cavities on average than men. I’ve explained how cavities are formed in a previous post. Diet change and sexual division [...]
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
LEIPZIG, Germany, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- German scientists say they have discovered the first direct evidence of wild bonobos hunting and eating the young of other primates. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology said while chimpanzee males frequently hunt and kill monkeys, the more peaceful bonobos had been believed to restrict what meat they ate to forest antelopes, squirrels...
The Cranky Professor (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Well this is a relief. Science has proved, once again, that conflict is more natural than peace. Me, I'm not surprised, but people who took college anthropology courses might be. A type of chimpanzee known to use sex for greetings,...
Anthropology.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Okay, I got some really cool archaeology news to share with you. In fact it is so cool, that I’m staying up to write up my review. Before I get into it, let me first introduce some relative background you’ll need to understand. One of the most important predecessors to the Inca Empire were the Tiwanaku, [...]
NextBillion.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jocelyn Wyatt leads the Design for Social Impact initiative at IDEO (a global design consultancy). Prior to IDEO, Jocelyn worked as an Acumen Fund fellow in Kenya and served as Interim Country Director for VisionSpring in India. Jocelyn has an MBA from Thunderbird and a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College. She blogs (periodically) on www.jocelynwyatt.com . By Jocelyn Wyatt Fully admitting my...
Anthropology.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you look at the time stamp of both Bora’s and Greg Laden’s posts, you’d know that they just broke the embargo on a new study of a prehistoric case of tuberculosis that was supposed to go live at 5pm PST, 8 pm EST. Now that the news is out, albeit slightly earlier than expected, [...]
Anthropology.net (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
I remember reading a short anoucement in 2003 about the discovery of 385,000–325,000 years old human-like footprints near the Roccamonfina volcanoes in southern Italy. We haven’t found many paleo-footprints, so any discovery is welcomed with excitement and of course with controversy. Some of the most notable paleo-footprints are the 3.5 million year old prints from [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
More than 400 universities and colleges now offer undergraduate or graduate degrees in peace studies, which incorporate anthropology, sociology, political science, theology and history to uncover the roots of conflict and develop preventive strategies.
Mirabilis.ca (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
From the Beeb: New method used to date cave art. Experts from the University of Bristol are to attempt to accurately date prehistoric caves. The team from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology travelled to northern Spain to collect samples of paintings from more than 20 caves. They will use a new method, based on the radioactive decay [...]
HispanicTrending (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
October 13, 2008 By Bob Blaisdell The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation By Leo R. Chavez Stanford; 288 pages; $55/$21.95 paperback Leo R. Chavez, a cultural anthropology professor at UC Irvine, is patient and careful. No matter...
Anthropology.net (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
When the headlines behind this story came across my RSS reader the other day, I was gonna file it under my proverbial “Captain Obvious” category. The basic premise is the potential link between last name and Y chromosome type. We already know that in deep ancestries, like among Jewish people, the Cohen Modal Haplotype (CMH) [...]
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
The fourth film in the Indiana Jones series, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, is out tomorrow, but if you need more of the man who made anthropology cool again, pick up Indiana Jones - The...
