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Anthropology
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Archaeology
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Lady 56: A Swedish Grave Reveals A Famed Spanish Pilgrimage
If you see multiple graves in medieval graves, it is reasonable to assume children and adults were related, but a new study finds that was not the case.
Psychology
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Why Do Technological Advances Cause A Surge In Folk Beliefs?
Sweden, for example, claims to be a secular, modern country, yet their belief in the paranormal is the same as everywhere else. Dr. Katarzyna Herd has insights.
Science Education & Policy
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Epidemiology Reduced To Sounding Alarms About Fake Eyelashes
A new paper links fake eyelashes to demodicosis - parasites living in your eyes. How worried should you be?
Science History
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The Tennessee Girls Who Won World War II
On this day in 1945, an atomic bomb on Hiroshima began the countdown to the end of World War II. Of the Axis Powers, Italy had surrendered in 1943 and Germany in April of 1945. Only Japan remained,...
Philosophy & Ethics
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Why Does Anyone Still Get Married?
Marriage for love is essentially a 20th-century convention. It's still financial in most ways. You need a government license to enter a marriage contract and a financial settlement to exit. But it...
And Since You Mention SNAP,
Among others oozing angst about “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani’s election were two refugees from the USSR (one was Garry Kasparov) speaking on an anti-semitism panel Tuesday. Socialism, they…
Drugs, Crime, And… Homelessness?
A commenter contested my statement that gang murders are a much greater menace to public safety than homelessness – at least, here in Albuquerque. So let’s unpack.
Preliminaries
We’ll first…
The Birth Paradox
Surely you’ve noticed that many countries are subsidizing births – and others are banning abortions – even as tech lords lament the number of “useless people” in the world. You’ve noted the…
The Right Of Return Is Complicated
My June 28 column on the Middle East drew a comment concerning Palestinians ejected from their homes by the post-WWII influx of European Jewish refugees to what’s now Israel. Eighty years after the…
Lost In Austin - The Evolution Of An American City
The book is author Alex Hannaford’s lament about changes in Austin, Texas, since his initial visit to the city in 1999. This at first spurred your reviewer, who moved to…
The Notion Of Nations: Does A Nationalist Pol Know What A Nation Is?
Our outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is due to our
preference for democracy over autocracy, and to the danger of Russia
pushing further westward into Europe. Perhaps most of all, we…
Is The Dunning - Kruger Effect An Artifact ?
Ever had a nervous breakdown by reading Facebook threads where absolutely incompetent people entertain similar ignoramuses by providing explanations of everything from quantum physics to the way…
Demands To End The George Floyd Protest, Amend The Constitution Make Black Lives Truly Matter.
Black people are no angels but when we are not being angelic, we still should have rights. All people should have the same rights when under the power of law enforcement that they do when they…
The Drug Chemistry White Box Study - An Interview With Jeremy Triplett
A fascinating development has emerged in the forensic testing of controlled substances. A "white box" study aimed at establishing error rates for this commonly-practiced forensic discipline is…
Forensic Evidence In Paul Frampton's Drug Smuggling Case
A few weeks ago, in an article where I discussed some new ideas for fundamental physics research, I briefly touched on an incident in which Paul Frampton, a well-known theoretical physicist, got…
