WEIRD ANTHROPOLOGY
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 …
Analysis: President makes appeal to Ukraine’s military to abandon its ‘drug-addicted, neo-Nazi’ leaders. Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news Putin references neo-Nazis and drug addicts in bizarre speech to Russian security council – video – Andrew Roth in Moscow Last modified on 2022 Feb 26 …
Researchers have recorded the activity of a dying human brain for the first time, and detected activity associated with dreaming and memory recall. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2022 Feb 21 – “My whole life flashed before my eyes” is a phrase we often …
Seated group of Ainu men. – By Alexei Muraki, Updated 2020 Apr 25 – It is generally suggested (through archeological and genetic evidence) that the Ainu (or the ancestors of the Ainu) originated in southern Siberia or somewhere in Central Asia. From …
Indigenous peoples of Siberia – By Alexei Muraki An ethnic Ainu from Russia (Sakhalin) Knows about human genetics and history Updated Jan 26 Who were the Paleo Siberians? – Paleo-Siberians, or Indigenous peoples of Siberia, generally refers to the indigenous population of Siberia, …
Research prompts warnings humanity is ‘financing its own extinction’ through subsidies damaging to the climate and wildlife. An electoral poster objecting to a proposed ban on subsidies for Swiss farms. A 2021 report found almost 90% of global farming subsidies are harmful. Photograph: …
Archaeologists excavating the windswept Ness of Brodgar are unearthing a treasure trove of neolithic villages, tombs, weapons and mysterious religious artifacts, some to be displayed in a blockbuster exhibition. ‘A gateway into a liminal world’ … the Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney, built …
The love god Kamadeva prepares to shoot Shiva with a love dart. British Museum/Wikimedia Commons – By Jeffery D. Long, Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College 2022 Feb 11 – With the coming of Valentine’s Day, images of a chubby Cupid …
An Egyptian Muslim woman holds candles in front of the Coptic Christian Cathedral in tribute to the victims of a bomb attack in Cairo on 2016 Dec 17. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters – By Paul Rowe, Professor and Coordinator of Political and International …
An Orthodox priest takes part in a rally in protest against an official visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople to Kyiv in August 2021. Anna Marchenko\TASS via Getty Images – By J. Eugene Clay, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, School of …
