I am an American: A Fourth Open Letter to Our Students
Will you say no to intolerance and ignorance? But is that what life is all about? Can you call out hate when you confront
Undergraduate Futures
On how anthropology might create a safer world for human difference. In writing a piece on the topic of Futures as current senior undergraduates in anthropology we…
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Hi all, A busy week for curating development news: More on Yegna, the state of development journalism & anti-aid campaigns; report writing has not adapted to the digital…
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Hi all, A busy week for curating development news: More on Yegna, the state of development journalism & anti-aid campaigns; report writing has not adapted to the digital…
Comet Quest
How the Rosetta mission created a new archaeological site in space. Artist’s impression of Rosetta releasing the Philae Lander. ESA-C/Carreau/ATGmedialab A tale of two Rosetta Stones Archaeolog…
The Future of Education is Now
We must radically reform higher education to meet the most pressing needs of our age. It’s Taco Day at Meadowlark Retirement Community in Manhattan, Kansas. “The students usually…
What’s Your Beef
How eating brisket shapes the future in the present. A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his…
When Social Media Are the News
As social media become commonplace, they reorganize publics, places, and politics in ways history cannot predict. Over a decade ago, a tectonic shift in communication technologies began…
Big Data, Ethical Futures
Social media and digital networks research is human subjects research. Why not make it more ethical? As more and more disciplines crisscross and work together to study the…
CFP: Theorizing Harm
Whether focused on toxicity, disease, disaster, violence, or malfunction, STS scholars have long studied harm. Given the great diversity of approaches and cases, this panel seeks to take…
Surekha Davies, “Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
You find a lot of strange things on late medieval and “Age of Discovery” era maps. Of course there are weird beasts of every sort: dragons, griffins, sea…
Haircuts and Billionaires
Outer Space Podcast Trilogy 1: Haircuts and Billionaires
Society Must Be Defended: Join us for a Read-In on 20 January 2017
By: Paige West and JC Salyer In the wake of the 2016 US presidential election scholars across the country and internationally have worked to understand the drivers…
Why we throw coins in fountains: a cultural explanation
by Peter Wogan Why do so many of us get pleasant, uncanny sensations when we throw a coin in a fountain and see it resting in the water…
Rice Reveals African Slaves’ Agricultural Heritage
Clues about the history—and survival—of African slaves in the Americas can be found in certain plants, such as rice. David Williams When Tinde van Andel purchased a small…
Precision is not accuracy.
We often use the words precision and accuracy interchangeably in everyday conversation, but in statistics they mean different things.
Anthropologizing Software and Design
Charles Pearson is an anthropologist working in tech who has written a few great articles for Medium on his experiences. In his recent piece, “Why Every Software Team…
Anthropologizing Software and Design
Charles Pearson is an anthropologist working in tech who has written a few great articles for Medium on his experiences. In his recent piece, “Why Every Software Team…
Data Waves – finding meaning through music
Miranda Marcus, UCL Digital Anthropology How do we display data in a way that is meaningful? This is the question that has been posed by Dr Robin Carhart-Harris…