anthro in the news 10/12/2015
Caption: Artemisia annua which yields an anti-malarial drug, source: Wikipedia Nobel Prize catalyzes controversy in China The New York Times reported on reactions in China about…
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Ambivalentes Verhältnis zur Moderne: Was ist eigentlich die Pfingstbewegung und warum ist sie global so erfolgreich?
Dass es außerhalb Europas eine sehr stark wachsende Pfingstbewegung gibt, ist oftmals unbekannt. REMID stellte den Religionswissenschaftlern Dr. Sebastian Schüler (Leipzig) und Martin Radermacher (Bo…
Surveying Social Relationships
One of the chapters of our forthcoming book How the World Changed Social Media, which will be published as an Open Access book by UCL Press in February…
anthro in the news 9/21/15
North American totem pole; source: Erika Wittlieb, Creative Commons Indigenous tourism offers hope CBA Canada reported on a gathering of iIndigenous groups from around the world in…
Linguistic Challenges to China’s Centralizing Control
Challenges to authoritarian states’ control of language can be so complex that they exceed the states’ ability to manage them all. Electronic expression of resistance and increasi…
Where do we get our technologies from? (Answer: everybody else)
How much of your success comes from your ability to read? Would you be able to feed and clothe yourself without the help of others? Would you have…