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Anna Post on Managing Our Digital Spaces
Tweeting, texting, Facebooking, checking email, sending photos, and even, yes, old-fashioned telephone calls—we're doing it all, and we're doing it wherever and whenever we please.
Anthropology in Practice
Exploring the human condition.
The Sciences
Editor s Selections: Reopening Graves and Understanding Attraction
This week from my ResearchBlogging.org column: Contextual clues are important in archaeology. And at Bones Don’t Lie , Katy Meyers highlights how a geoarchaeology approach can reveal how a tomb was treated—whether it was reopened and how many times...
Mind
The Meaning of Goodbye
It took a few days of moping around the house before I finally acknowledged what the problem is: my heart hurts.It's an expression I use with those closest to me.
Public Health
The Science of Social Pressure
What would it take to make you an organ donor?
The Sciences
Editor's Selections: Properties of eyeliner, Rituals, Tales told by pottery, and Roman diets
The selection for this week covers the last two weeks: We might not give much thought to eyeliner today, dismissing it as a beauty product that highlights and enhances the eye, but the ancient Egyptians had a different purpose for lining their eyes: preventing eye infections...
The Sciences
The Diminishing Digital Divide
Concerns about the digital divide have started to take on a bit of hysterical edge—think along the lines of Reverend Lovejoy's wife: "But what about the children ?!
The Sciences
The Illegal Trade of Twine
This is an installment in the On My Shelf series—reviews about books demonstrating anthropology in practice. Book details follow the post.
Evolution
Editor's Selections: Tool use, Parasitic siblings, Facial expressions, Settlers, and Gaslighting
An eclectic collection from my ResearchBlogging.org column this week, but all well worth the read: At EvoAnth , Adam Benton wonders whether human ancestors may have mastered tool use earlier than we think...
Public Health
The Cost of Healthy Eating
S has taken the lead in preparing our weeknight meals. It helps us get dinner on the table earlier but he's also interested in helping us eat more healthfully.
Mind
Editor s Selections: Speaking In Tongues, Bi-Gendered Individuals, And The Prisoner s Dilemma
Highlighted in my ResearchBlogging.org column this week: At Geneaology of Religion , Cris Campbell has a nice summary of dissociative speech patterns—in layman’s terms, that’s to say he breaks down different ways of “speaking in tongues.” The Neuroskeptic discusses a small, self-selected study on “bi-gendered” individuals which highlights the ways social pressures can color our identities...
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