Mask fiasco
This week, the New York Times published a piece by information scientist Zeynep Tufekci, “Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired”. The main idea ...
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Link: Exoplanet fatigue
Oliver Morton thought that the recent Proxima Centauri exoplanet news would be bigger; he ponders why he was wrong: “It will be a long time before you see an...
What is the ‘braided stream’ analogy for human evolution?
Two years ago, I pointed to a year-end retrospective that Clive Finlayson had done for BBC News: “Viewpoint: Human evolution, from tree to braid”. He reflect...
Tales of a paleoartist
Discover magazine is running an incredible article by John Gurche about the process of creating his artistic reconstructions of early hominins: “Making Lucy:...
Photo: Wakarusa sunset
I’ve seen some people’s glorious sunset pictures from around the world the last few days. Here’s one from eastern Kansas last week:
Some 2013 highlights
As the new year begins, I thought I would link to some stories that struck me over the last year. I’m inspired by Kate Wong, who has summarized her top human...
Greeks bearing gifts
A reader writes: “A good argument to require introductory anthropology”:
The year's big paleoanthropology stories
Last year, I complained that paleoanthropology had been exceptionally boring. One piece of evidence was the year-end retrospective in Discover about the top ...
Neandertals in the news
Here’s the top hit for “Neanderthal” on Google News today:
News connections
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Why was paleoanthropology so boring in 2008?
The year isn’t quite over yet, but when I went looking at my annual predictions for the year (thinking mostly about what I should write this time around), I ...
Hawks featured in Science News
Bruce Bower has a really nice feature article in Science News about my work on hearing and recent selection:
"[Tom] Arnold will play Rog, a gay caveman"
That’s the last line of this news item about the cast of the upcoming movie, “Homo Erectus: A Caveman Comedy”: