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Thanksgiving Thoughts 2019

23 Nov 2019
We again approach Thanksgiving in the United States, and in keeping with my annual tradition, I'd like to remind you that Friday is Black Friday #BuyNothingDay. On Friday, November 29, 2019,…
education…

Famous Footprints: 50 years ago, 3.6 million years ago (give or take)

20 Jul 201922 Jul 2019
... then, just ~3.6 million years later... Three and a half million years separate the individual who left these footprints in the sands of Africa from the one who left…
Culture Change

Thanksgiving Thoughts 2018

20 Nov 201821 Nov 2018
We again approach Thanksgiving in the United States, and in keeping with my annual tradition, I'd like to remind you that Friday is Black Friday Buy Nothing Day (and also to let California readers…
education…

Famous Footprints: 49 years ago today, 3.6 million years ago (give or take)

20 Jul 2018
... then, just ~3.6 million years later... Three and a half million years separate the individual who left these footprints in the sands of Africa from the one who left…
Culture Change…

Far from normal…

9 May 2018
Just a quick reminder that what you've grown to think of as normal isn't at all normal... Randal Munroe gets me so well. Cars are not at all normal. Other things…
Culture Change

Thanksgiving Thoughts 2017

22 Nov 201722 Nov 2017
Once again, it is the eve of Thanksgiving in the United States, and in keeping with my annual tradition, I'd like to remind you that Friday is Black Friday Buy Nothing Day (and also…
Culture Change

This Year’s Thanksgiving Thoughts

23 Nov 2016
It is the eve of Thanksgiving in the United States, and in keeping with my annual tradition, I'd like to remind you that Friday is Black Friday Buy Nothing Day (and also to let…
climate…

The Scale of Change Over Time

12 Sep 2016
(or "The difference between rust and fire") Randall Munroe has given us a great way to look at climate change over a somewhat-deep-time perspective.  (Remember, I'm an anthropologist, so 20,000…
money culture

The Myth of Bartering and the Realities of Sharing and Gift Economies

14 Jun 201615 Jun 2016
In their ethnographic research, anthropologists do not find barter economies among people who have never used money.  Much more prevalent are gift economies: a complex and time-extended form of reciprocal altruism.  Often there…
primates

RIP Elwyn Simons

17 Mar 2016
Elwyn L. Simons was one of the leading figures of paleoprimatology, and founder of the Duke University Primate Center. His fossil discoveries included Aegyptopithecus.  He worked on primate conservation, focusing on…

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