Critical Situations is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University. During this extensive conve… Visit New…
Read Time:11 Second Licenciada en Filosofía y Letras. Teatrera y escribienta, aunque la RAE no lo acepte. Hija de un picnic. Humani…
Cheap paperback stocking stuffers… – though I wonder if 1 left in stock contradicts that whole value-scarcity thing. Pretty sure there is more than one.
Ending homelessness in the Bay Area will require a strong commitment at all levels of government, including the political will not only to address the immediate crisis of…
Do you have an opinion that you hope can change the world? In this free online webinar, SAPIENS’ editor-in-chief Chip Colwell explains the ins-and-outs of writing op-eds or…
‘Value’ is the one central themes that runs throughout and conjoins all of David Graeber’s writings. This week focuses on his first book, whose original title, eventually flipped…
In the picture above, you see me reading along with Hebrew psalms and prayers during a synagogue (shul) service on simchat torah. Simchat torah is a festive day…
At the Sima de los Huesos (“Pit of the Bones”) archaeological site in Spain, researchers recovered DNA from 417,000-year-old hominin fossils that may be the ancestors of Neanderthals.…
Charles Foster set out to answer one of the most perplexing questions of all – what sort of creatures are we humans? – in one of the most…
In partnership with the Nunatsiavut Government, we are recruiting a Master’s student to work on the project Wild food movements and contaminants of concern in Imappivut.
Anders Norge Lauridsen: Not that long ago, one of my supervisors held an informal presentation about his reading strategies. It was part of a series of lunch seminars…
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, an… Visit New Books…
Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (Routledge, 2021) offers the first methodological synthesis of digital food studies. It brings together contributions from leading scholars in food an… Visit New Books…
The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The…
In What is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction, geographer Jamie Linton (2010: 14) describes “modern water” as the following: “an abstract, isomorphic, measurable quantity that may…
We are often told that Jordan is one of the most water-poor countries on the planet and it is hard not to recognize the truth of this…
December 3rd is the UN’s International Day for People with Disabilities. The theme of 2021 was “Building Back Better: toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 World”.…
In this interview, I speak with Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway about their new book, Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique (University of Georgia Pr… Visit…
CLEAR is hiring two part-time research assistants to help study Indigenous and decolonial quantitative methodologies.
“Two weeks to flatten the curve,” is what we heard across Canada1 just after March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization unilaterally declared a global “pandemic” according to…
Morning on Ganjiga beach March 2020. I had been in Uiaku for just over a week, but already established a pattern of sorts. Each evening after visitors had…
An Indigenous Pantaron Manobo man sports a pendant necklace imbued with sacred power. Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio Within days of its release last June, the Netflix animated series…
Read Time:2 Minute, 35 Second Uno tiene la sospecha, y tal vez el acontecer de los tiempos y los sucesos puedan darle la razón, de …
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson (Princeton Press, 2021) uses food—what people eat and how—to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in…