Our Stone Tool Discovery Pushes Back the Archaeological Record by 700,000 Years Jason Lewis and Sonia Harmand History, Science, Society & Culture This post originally appeared on The Conversation. On the morning of July 9 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Sammy Lokorodi, who...
Can I (Should I) Be a Parent in Academia? Amanda Ann Klein Education, Society & Culture Work, Study, and Scholarship as an Academic Parent
On Sleeping on Couches and Diversity in Medicine S. Luckett-Gatopoulos Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Diversity in medicine isn’t just about rural applicants, and it’s not about PhDs, either. It’s about inviting people from all walks of life to participate in providing health care FOR people from all walks of life.
A Bridge for the Knowledge Gap Philip M. Parker and Benjamin Kessler Economics, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture An innovative content platform is starting to put the world’s most advanced agricultural data into the hands of its poorest farmers.
The Disappointing Election: Britain Votes Seth Alexander Thévoz Government, Society & Culture As the most unpredictable election in decades, Britain’s May 2015 election has all the fascination of a slow-motion car crash.
Baltimore Riots: The Fire This Time and The Fire Last Time and The Time Between Kimberly Moffitt, John Rennie Short, Kate Drabinski and Michael Sierra-Arevalo Society & Culture Editor’s note: Protests erupted Monday into violence in Baltimore following the funeral of Freddie Gray, a black man who died after being taken into police custody. We asked scholars to comment on the...
When an Anthropologist Becomes a Beijing Reality TV Star Eugene Cooper Society & Culture I have never been shy about singing, from glee club in elementary school to folk music as a teen, to jugband, bluegrass and country as a college student, to membership in the Southwest Bluegrass Association in...
