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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Discover magazine is running an incredible article by John Gurche about the process of creating his artistic reconstructions of early hominins: “Making Lucy:...
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:
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...
A reader writes: “A good argument to require introductory anthropology”:
Last year, I complained that paleoanthropology had been exceptionally boring. One piece of evidence was the year-end retrospective in Discover about the top ...
Here’s the top hit for “Neanderthal” on Google News today:
Story 1:
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 ...
Bruce Bower has a really nice feature article in Science News about my work on hearing and recent selection:
That’s the last line of this news item about the cast of the upcoming movie, “Homo Erectus: A Caveman Comedy”: