WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
By Curt Devine, Casey Tolan and Majlie de Puy Kamp, CNN Updated 2022 Mar 17 – (CNN) The sprawling billion-dollar palace that sits on a hilltop overlooking the Black Sea is seen by some Kremlin critics as the ultimate emblem of Russian President …
This image, presumably from a training prep run, shows one of the skydiving pilots approaching a nose-diving plane. Red Bull – By Loz Blain 2022 Mar 17 – Back in 2017, Red Bull filmed a pair of BASE-jumping wingsuit pilots jumping off a mountain …
Biosphere is being created for the Treehotel project in Sweden, which showcases several hotel rooms by some of Scandinavia’s most respected architects. BIG – By Adam Williams 2022 Mar 15 – The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has produced more than its fair share of …
An isolated tribe in the Bolivian Amazon was previously also found to have the healthiest arteries of any population ever studied. luq1/Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2022 Mar 09 – Researchers working with remote indigenous populations in the Bolivian Amazon have found the communities …
The 1MDB swindle is one of the most remarkable cases to hit New York’s justice system in years – but the trial poses a number of unanswered questions. Witness Timothy Leissner points out former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng in Brooklyn federal court …
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been lauded for his resistance to the Russian invasion. Photo by Laurent Van der Stockt for Le Monde/Getty Images – By Michael Blake, Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington Published: 2022 Mar 04 – Whatever happens …
Where’s the beef? Drew Angerer/Getty Images News – By F. Bailey Norwood, Professor of Agribusiness, Oklahoma State University and Courtney Bir, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University Published: 2022 Mar 01 – CC BY-ND About 10% of Americans over the age …
In past conflicts Russia could hide small scale casualties, but not any more. A Russian tank destroyed by the Ukrainian forces in Lugansk region 26 February 2022. Photograph: Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images – By Jack Watling Last modified on 2022 Mar 06 – When …
The sagas suggest she settled in Newfoundland and eventually made eight crossings of the North Atlantic Sea. As historian Nancy Marie Brown points out, “sking not ‘Are the sagas true?’ but ‘Are they plausible?’” is a far better barometer for testing the Viking …
Human genetic research has developed rapidly in recent decades, generating huge amounts of new information. – By Jack Guy, CNN Updated 2022 Feb 24 – Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and …