Why You Should Consider Applying for the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship
Are you about to complete your PhD and want to do something other than become an adjunct? Or are you perhaps safely tenured but want to make a…
“He didn’t blow us up”—routine violence and non-event as case by Ken MacLeish
This case is a story that a soldier told me. I call her Kelly, and she said it was “the craziest story I was gonna get” from her.…
Does the ADB have a problem with women?
When I tweeted this picture from the ADB’s 7th International Policy Advisory Group meeting yesterday, I did not anticipate that it quickly became one of my most re-tweeted…
Around the Web Digest: Week of August 9
Apparently it’s National Tell a Joke Day… earlier this week I got to check out a satirical play about electoral politics here in Guatemala called Mi Candidato…
Chasing their tails
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Chasing their tails
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Chasing their tails
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
LA’s Shade Balls: The ecological costs of plastics in water
Putting 20,000 black plastic balls in water after people have been warned against throwing plastic into waterways has sparked a number of questions. Our plastic expert talks about…
Fear of Falling
By Sean Carey Remember when your mother or other responsible adult told you as a small child to tie your shoelaces so you would not trip and fall?…
Be still my beating NYC HeART
I lived in New York City for a few short-but-long-enough years in the “early 2000s”. My renovated-but-still-affordable apartment was on (as we told my girlfriend’s conservative subu…
Ropa americana online: the local market for used clothing
A Facebook announcement from an online shop in northern Chile announces “Jackets, Vests, and Sweatshirts” Ebay, Etsy, Alibaba, and Taobao have changed the way many people around the…
Article Alert! Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime
“”During the first hour spent in houses with suspected indoor air-quality issues, I would slowly develop an ache in the back of my eyes, which would with time…
Review: Improvising Medicine – An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Julie Livingston, 2012)
In contemporary medical anthropology, a growing body of ethnographies of care, increasing inquiry into public health and therapeutic practice centered in the global South emerges contributing to debat…
Image as Method: Conversations on Anthropology through the Image by Andrés Romero
What follows is a series of conversations conducted after the recent Image as Method symposium, which took place on May 4th and 5th, 2015, at Columbia University’s Heyman…
It Belongs In A Museum: Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology Review
By Emma Louise Backe Although Indiana Jones is a beloved cinematic figure—the consummate swashbuckling archaeologist—his representation of archaeological theories and methodologies has been a point of…
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Hi all,Another week is coming to its end and you are looking for Friday afternoon and weekend reading recommendations!Development news features inherent contradictions of the SDGs in a…
The Workshop
The traffic was unusually terrible making my arrival at work 40 minutes later than anticipated. On my mind were familial concerns as they always are when you leave…
Getting into User Experience Research: 3 Senior Practitioners Share Their Stories
One thing I love about the field of User Experience is that it’s full of passionate, curious and talented people with a wide variety of professional backgrounds. In…
Summer reading lists vs. What Actually Happened
Ah, summer reading lists: Elaborate plans for personal enrichment and literary sophistication made in the spring and carried out… when? It’s easy to find tons of summer reading…
Community Led Ebola Management and Eradication (CLEME)
The CLEME (Community Led Ebola Man- agement and Eradication) programme aims at triggering the behavioural change needed by the communities to strengthen community resilience to the outbreak and preven…
Community Led Ebola Management and Eradication (CLEME)
The CLEME (Community Led Ebola Man- agement and Eradication) programme aims at triggering the behavioural change needed by the communities to strengthen community resilience to the outbreak and preven…