Category Archives: Human behavior
Smithsonian Perspectives
The American Anthropological Association held its annual meeting in San Francisco in November, bringing together [...]
The Quality of Mercy
Writers Joyce and Richard Wolkomir crossed the threshold of Central Vermont Medical Center, not far [...]
Expressions: The Visible Link
Charles Darwin Wikimedia Commons He was an Englishman who went on a five-year voyage when [...]
A Social Divide Written in Stone
Cliff Palace Wikimedia Commons One of the great mysteries of North American archaeology concerns the [...]
Discovering the Odds
Nicolaus Copernicus Wikimedia Commons Whizzing along a highway in our cars or jetting across the [...]
Bone Specialist On Call
Wikimedia Commons The skeleton of a child, 10 to 12 years old, had been found [...]
Shop for This Label: “No Assembly Required”
Recently my wife and I purchased a new outdoor gas grill. It was delivered to [...]
You Are What You Buy
At a Wal-Mart, James Twitchell, professor of 19th-century poetry at the University of Florida, in [...]
Log-o-phil-ia Is Addictive
In 1994 a computer-sciences graduate student in Ohio named Anu Garg posted this announcement on [...]
Happily Ever After?
At a certain age, many of us turn to the obituaries after scanning the front [...]
We’re in a Jam
Consider how traffic bedevils modern America: we collectively waste more than 4.6 billion hours stuck [...]
Following the Track of the Cat
Tracking is deeply ingrained in the San Bushmen of Namibia on the southwestern edge of [...]
Testimony from the Iceman
The city of Bolzano, in northern Italy, has many things of which it can boast. [...]
The Hunt for Hot Stuff
/ “A gray-haired, cherub-faced 56-year-old, Meskhi is a local leader of the international effort to [...]
Rethinking Neanderthals
Indicating that Neanderthals buried their dead, a stone-lined pit in southwest France held the 70,000-year-old [...]