WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
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 …
After 12 weeks of daily blueberry supplements researchers saw small cognitive improvements in trial participants. Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2022 May 12 – New research from the University of Cincinnati has found daily consumption of blueberries in middle-age could reduce a person’s risk …
Many Russian soldiers would rather be dismissed or transferred than fight in Ukraine. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images – By Pjotr Sauer Last modified on 2022 May 13 – When the soldiers of an elite Russian army brigade were told in early April to prepare …
Don’t dismiss soil: its unknowable wonders could ensure the survival of our species. When a plant root pushes into soil, it triggers an explosion of activity in billions of bacteria. Photograph: Liz McBurney/The Guardian – By George Monbiot Published: 2022 May 07 – …
The headstone of Father Damien, a Catholic saint who was canonized in 2009. Richard A. Cooke III/Corbis Historical via Getty Images – By Mark Lambert, Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago Divinity School Published: 2022 May 06 – On 1865 Jan 03, the Kingdom …
Most of the claims about ‘Hitler’s Jewish blood,’ repeated Sunday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, arise from the fact that the identity of his paternal grandfather is unknown. The answer to that question seems to have been buried with his grandmother. German …
