WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
Researchers still don’t know precisely how many get long Covid, what causes it or how best to treat it. Many long haulers report fatigue, brain fog, and a range of other symptoms for months after their infection. Photograph: VioletaStoimenova/Getty Images – By Eric …
Members celebrate the restoration of lands they had stewarded for thousands of years. Salish Pend d’Oreille elder Stephen Small Salmon expressed hope that the tribes would reclaim Big Medicine, a rare white calf born in 1933. His taxidermied body is at the Montana …
Researchers estimate the city, which features the Mayan Puuc style of architecture, to have been occupied from 600 to 900 AD. The ruins of a Mayan site, called Xiol, have been uncovered on a construction site near Mérida, México. Photograph: Lorenzo Hernández/Reuters – …
Monkeypox causes lesions that resemble pus-filled blisters, which eventually scab over. CDC/Getty Images – By Rodney E. Rohde, Regents’ Professor of Clinical Laboratory Science, Texas State University Published: 2022 May 20 – On 2022 May 18, Massachusetts health officials and the Centers for …
“Sowing water” in this mountainous region has been crucial for people, crops, and biodiversity for more than a millennium. Antonio Ortega García adjusts slabs of stone, divering water from the Río Grande (foreground) to an acequia. All Photos by Kira Walker for Atlas …
Egypt’s religious and secular institutions both breed mistrust in Tarik Saleh’s superbly realized paranoid nightmare. Every day a school day … Boy from Heaven. Photograph: PR – Peter Bradshaw @PeterBradshaw1 2022 May 20 – Tarik Saleh is the Swedish-Egyptian director who made The …
The Coen brother goes solo to put together a documentary about the shamanic wild man of early rock’n’roll, who reinvented himself as a country and gospel act. Wild man … Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind. Photograph: AP– Peter Bradshaw @PeterBradshaw1 Last modified …
When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas. Franklin McMahon/Corbis via Getty Images – By Lacey Wade, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania Published: 2022 May 20 – Have you ever caught …
How do you pronounce ‘Muslim’? What about ‘spiel’? Linda Staf/Shutterstock.com – By Zachary Jaggers, Postdoctoral Scholar of Linguistics, University of Oregon Originally Published: 2019 Oct 21 – Politics can predict the TV shows we watch, the shops we frequent and the places we …
Harvesting soybeans in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Brazil exports soybeans and uses them domestically to make animal feed and biodiesel. Paulo Fridman/Corbis via Getty Images – By Deepak Ray, Senior Scientist, University of Minnesota Published: 2022 May 13 – CC BY-ND – Rising competition …
