Anthropology
- Almost 80 Percent: Drinking Alcohol While Pregnant Is Common Outside The U.S.
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Though drinking alcohol while pregnant is considered a cultural no-no in the United States, that is not the case for other current and former British subjects. Data of almost 18,000 women in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand finds that 20% all t ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2015 - 12:48pm
- Social Workers Don't Discuss Religion And Spirituality With Clients- And That May Be Bad
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Don't expect your social worker to ask you about your religious beliefs, even though licensed clinical social workers, who account for the largest number of clinically trained helping professionals, believe that discussions about clients' religi ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2015 - 9:49am
- 94% Of Americans Snack Daily
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Snacking is the new American pastime, acccording to the recent survey by Mintel which found that nearly all Americans (94 percent) report snacking at least once a day and 50 percent of adults snack two to three times per day. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2015 - 8:00am
- Who Has The Most Babies, Wins: A System Analysis Of America’s Angst
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Facebook traffic and news items tell us a lot of Americans of northern European extraction are anxious and even fearful about the prospect that White Americans will soon be a minority. A subset seems further offended by court decisions bestowing civil righ ...
Article - Fred Phillips - Jul 18 2015 - 6:31pm
- Henry V's Agincourt Naval Fleet Smaller Than Previously Believed
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The Battle of Agincourt, a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War, will have its 600th anniversary on October 25th, 2015, but they had actually landed in August. How big was the fleet that carried the army? Henry V’s naval fleet, used to tran ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2015 - 8:00am
- Chimpanzees Binge On Clay To Detox
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Wild chimpanzees in the forests of Uganda are increasingly eating clay to supplement the minerals in their diet, according to a long-term study published in PLOS ONE. The paper led by the University of Oxford describes how the researchers observed wild ch ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2015 - 10:30am
- It's Naive To Pretend Differences Between Women And Men Are Just Genetics
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It's naïve to pretend there are no profound genetic and epigenetic differences between the sexes. Elephant Gun Studios, CC BY-NC Gender differences and sexual preferences are frequently a point of conversation. What produces the differences between m ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 31 2015 - 10:00am
- Animal Sex Is Spicier Than We Thought
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There’s an idea circulating that humans are the only animal to experience sexual pleasure; that we approach sex in a way that is distinct from others. As with many questions about sex, this exposes some interesting facts about the way we discuss the subje ...
Article - The Conversation - Aug 1 2015 - 9:01am
- Opioid Use And Sexual Violence Among Drug-using Young Adults In NYC
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The non-medical use of prescription opioids (POs) has become an area of increasing public health concern in the United States and rates of use are particularly high among young adults. In the past decade, an emerging "epidemic" of non-medical PO ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2015 - 10:30am
- How Common Is Sexting?
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The practice of "sexting"- the sending or receiving of sexually suggestive or explicit content via text message, primarily using a mobile device- may be more common than generally thought among adults. More than eight out of 10 people surveyed o ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2015 - 9:43am