Anthropology

Twice As Many Trans People Get Cirrhosis

A new analysis has found that cirrhosis, a liver disease that occurs when scar tissue prevents the liver from functioning normally, occurs twice as often in trans adults as those whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.   ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2024 - 12:02pm

When Did Humans Migrate To Australia?

Every country has people claiming to be native now, whereas in previous generations if you were born there, you were native. In reality, outside the cradle in Africa, no one is native. Everyone was an immigrant, and over time everyone calling themselves na ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2024 - 11:02am

The Toxic Masculinity Of Disney Movies

Once upon a time, stories were just stories. They were fantasies that took people to a new world.  In the 21st century, cultural pundits insisted that books, films, video games and television shape our personalities. It began in the 1980s when Democrats wa ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 19 2024 - 5:00am

Less Genetic Blaming: The Horrors Of Eugenics, Then And Now

Why is the world so full of "morons" and "degenerates" and what, if anything, can be done to fix them? These are questions that Robert W. Sussman, PhD, a professor of anthropology in Arts&Sciences at Washington University in St. Lo ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2024 - 12:52pm

Red Alert Fatigue- Why Americans Are Getting Immune To Political Hysteria

“I am definitely not following the news anymore,” one patient told me when I asked about her political news consumption in the weeks before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. This conversation happened around the time I talked with a local TV channel ab ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 20 2024 - 4:30am

On St. Patrick's Day, 33 Million Americans Will Claim To Be Irish, But In 1776 Few Irish Wanted To Be American

Many people don't realize July 4th, 1776 was not the day the war between America and Britain started, it's simply the day we traitorous colonists finally had enough of our own country's army attacking us, taking over our homes, stealing our ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 8 2025 - 7:28pm

In British Iron Age Culture, Margaret Thatcher Was The Norm

In British Iron Age society, land was inherited through the female line and husbands moved to live with the wife’s community. Strong women like Margaret Thatcher resulted. That was inferred due to DNA sequenced from members of a single community, over 50 a ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2025 - 3:33pm

Is Canadian Patriotism Why Religion Is So Unpopular In The Country?

In 1961, less than one per cent of Canadians identified as having no religion. In 2021, 43 per cent of those between 15 and 35 considered themselves religiously unaffiliated. Organized religion — and especially Christianity — is in decline. Secularization ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 28 2025 - 11:13am

Life-Size Sculptures Uncovered In Pompeii Debunk Myths About Ancient Women

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don’t often think to look beyond the city walls. And it’s easy to understand why: there’s plenty on offer w ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 4 2025 - 12:11pm

Anthropologist Glenn Stone Again Declares GMO Golden Rice More Hat Than Cattle

Heralded on the cover of Time magazine in 2000 as a genetically modified (GMO) crop with the potential to save millions of lives in the Third World, Golden Rice is still years- and millions of dollars in anti-science activism- away from field introduction ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2025 - 2:49pm