Anthropology

To Stop E-cigarette Use In Teens, You Need To Stop Rebellion In Teens

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recently become concerned about e-cigarette use yet scarcely mention that cigarette uptake has plummeted. Cigarettes are the killer, not nicotine, but nicotine is what historically turned smoking in ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2016 - 8:42am

Are Think Tanks More Credible To Government Employees? Not Really

Think tanks are designed to help policy makers shape decisions by giving them evidence-based information in an apolitical format. Who doesn't claim to be doing that? Though Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund were both inspired by rabid eugeni ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2016 - 9:08am

Just The Availability Of Meat Causes Obesity, Say Anthropologists

Should we be warning consumers about over-consumption of meat as well as sugar? That's the question being raised by a team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, who say meat in the modern diet offers surplus energy, and is contributing to t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2016 - 12:39pm

Who Was The First Chef?

Archaeological sites speak about the everyday lives of people in other times. Yet knowing how to interpret this reality does not tend to be straightforward. We know that Palaeolithic societies lived on hunting and gathering, but the bones found in prehisto ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2016 - 10:51am

How Canadians Lose 6 Years Of Life

Does free health care or terrific medical treatment make citizens unwilling to change their lifestyle? There is a valid argument it is true. HIV has plummeted among every demographic except gay men, who have been found to engage in risky behavior because ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2016 - 6:30am

Gender Bias In Surgical Clinical Research

An analysis of about 1,300 peer-reviewed research articles found that few studies included men and women equally, less than one-third performed data analysis by sex, and there was wide variation in inclusion and matching of the sexes among the specialties ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2016 - 7:02am

An Argument For Trigger Warnings And Freedom Of Speech

Our linguistic and legal obsession with “insult” and “offense” is nothing new. In 1832, Sydney resident William McLoughlin was given 50 lashes for using the word “damned” against his master. But what does McLoughlin’s case tell us about today? Welsh Rabbit ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 16 2016 - 6:30am

Laterality: Finding Out About The Human Mind Through Stone

Laterality is the preference of human beings for one side of our bodies; being left-handed or right-handed, for example, or having a preference for using one eye or ear or the other. In the view of primatologist Eder Domínguez-Ballesteros, "lateraliz ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2016 - 7:30am

How Common Is Death By Falling?

On Thursday, Gold Coast man Gable Tostee was found not guilty of the murder of a woman, Warriena Wright, who fell to her death from his unit’s balcony. The case raises questions about how common death by falling is – and how many such incidents are homici ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 24 2016 - 11:16am

The Origin Of The Newspaper

In the late 16th century, two brothers from the illustrious Fugger merchant family had news from all over the world sent to them in Augsburg by mail. At the time, so-called "novellantes" compiled and wrote down news which they forwarded to wealth ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2016 - 5:46am