Exploring the human condition.
Explorer hikes in Tibbetts Brook, which runs through a Bronx sewer. Credit: Steve Duncan, NYT "To be happy, stay hidden." - Yopie, Parisian cataphile Ever since reading Jennifer Toth's The Mole People as a teen, I've been intrigued by the metropolitan underground.
I just flew in from Boston, and boy are my arms tired. No? Not even a small smile? Okay, in all seriousness, I've been traveling so my selections for this week cover the work done by bloggers last week as well: Overcrowding.
Ed Note: This post originally appeared on The Urban Ethnographer, where it was selected as a ResearchBlogging Editor's Selection. It has been slightly edited for posting here.
New York City owes a debt of thanks to Thomas Edison for the brilliance that the skyline projects at night. He is the reason that we have the power to be the city that never sleeps. But can our grid sustain our needs today?
And how prettily it is displayed when it is covered in dew!I took this photo on my way to the rail earlier this week. The more I think about it, the more it reminds me that we all have to attend to some business or another to manage our daily lives.
The third #NYCSciTweetUp was a huge success! Thanks to all who came out to The Peculier Pub. It was a pleasure seeing so many new faces mingling with familiar ones!
Coffees offer us a way to look at our relationship to the larger world and see that sometimes our choices are not really our own, to think about how brands and larger market forces can help create what appear to be stable icons in our lives.
Ed Note: A version of this article appeared on Anthropology in Practice on Jan. 26th, 2010. How much do we really know about the food we eat? How do items like fruits and vegetables get to the supermarket?
Ed. Note: This article originally appeared on Anthropology in Practice on May 2, 2011. Lunch is an often neglected meal of the day: sometimes skipped, many times hastily consumed, lunch is often over before it begins.
Here are my ResearchBlogging.org picks for this past week: It turns out that there is truth to the statement that thirty is the new twenty - well, at least in terms of brain development.
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Exploring the human condition.
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Insights into intelligence, creativity, and the mind
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Everything you always wanted to know about raising science-literate kids
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Critical views of science in the news
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Explore the science behind the dog in your bed
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News and research about endangered species from around the world
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Science by and for kids ages 8-15
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Commentary invited by editors of Scientific American
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Illusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions
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Discussion and news about planets, exoplanets, and astrobiology
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Commentary invited by editors of Scientific American Mind
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New discoveries in animal behavior and cognition
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Opinion, arguments & analyses from guest experts and from the editors of Scientific American
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More than wires - exploring the connections between energy, environment, and our lives
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Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.
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Amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals - living and extinct
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A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
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Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
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