Anthropology

Online Myth: 90 Percent Will Shop In Retail Stores This Holiday Season

It surprises most millennials to learn that only about 10 percent of all retail purchases are actually made online. Each semester, when I ask hundreds of undergraduate business students to estimate, they consistently guess that between a quarter and half ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 23 2017 - 11:35am

For The British, Bans Increase Happiness

In 2007, there was a ban that increased happiness for married women, but not men, according to the British Household Panel Survey. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2017 - 2:26pm

The Global Age Of The Algorithm Manifested In Communist China's Dystopian Social Credit System

The Chinese government’s ongoing attempts to create a social credit system aimed at rating the trustworthiness of people and companies have generated equal measures of fascination and anxiety around the world. Social credit is depicted as something unique ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 15 2018 - 2:10pm

Leni Riefenstahl: How A Nazi Film-Maker Became A Feminist Icon

The dancer, actress, director and photographer Helene “Leni” Riefenstahl, who died in 2003, is a controversial character, largely because of the many propaganda movies she produced for the Nazis. So when it was recently announced that her estate would be ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 28 2018 - 10:00am

You Are Probably A Better Dad Than Your Father Was

In the war for attention, a lot of parents are made to feel like they are not very good if they don't get their child into the right pre-school, buy the right food which lacks the additives it's fashionable to exclude, or spent Quality Time shuff ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 14 2018 - 10:17am

Sexual Harassment In Academia

A few years ago a cultural anthropologist levied a bombastic charge against her own field; using uncontrolled anonymous surveys with undefined terms she claimed almost every woman doing field work had been subjected to sexual harassment or even rape. It go ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2018 - 10:42am

The Long Peace- 1945, 1965 Or Just A Statistical Blip?

What accounts for modern peace? There are varying ideas. When America won World War II and occupied Germany and Japan in 1945, two militant cultures were off the table, while psychologist Steven Pinker argues in 2011's "The Better Angels of Our N ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2018 - 9:14am

Selection Bias In Publication? Minorities, Women And Republicans Are All Penalized. But Women Are Improving

A new study using a massive database of scientific articles, 486,644 articles with two to nine authors published in medical journals by U.S. scientists between 1946 and 2009, suggests that minority women are not double penalized by being minorities and wom ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2018 - 3:25pm

Learning About Ancient Diets From Modern British Teeth

British smiles have an unflattering international image, but a new study has put tartar from infamously bad teeth to good use. By analyzing the teeth of Britons from the Iron Age to the modern day they have leveraged a way to use proteins in tooth tartar t ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2018 - 9:23am

It's A Social Media World, But The Real World Is Still Local

Social media is king. It can run pizza chain founders out of their companies, it can be used by anti-science activists to mobilize well-meaning science advocates against other science advocates, but what it can't do is change human nature. And human ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2018 - 10:00am