Anthropology

Kept Men More Likely To Cheat Than Bigger Breadwinners

Research presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association had a surprising finding for women and careers- women who are economically dependent on a man are less likely to cheat but in men it is just the opposite.  So strippers bewar ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2010 - 12:14pm

Preschool, Psychology And How Even Young Kids Use Statistics

Children are natural psychologists and by the time they reach preschool they understand that other people have desires, preferences, beliefs, and emotions too. Exactly how they learn this isn't clear but a new study says that one way children figure o ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2010 - 11:47am

Bringing Back Viking Violence: Heroes In Icelandic Sagas Get Uncensored

The soon-to-be-published and complete Danish translation of all the Icelandic sagas, a literary cornerstone of the Western canon, will fundamentally change our perception of the Viking heroes that populate the stories. Saucy poems, supernatural creatures, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2010 - 4:07pm

SciTS- 'Science Of Team Science' Will Examine Collaboration

Multidisciplinary collaborative research teams are essential in modern day science- climate scientists need to make more accurate numerical models and genome data in biology can be overwhelming and that means working with experts in other fields  – but wor ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2010 - 6:54pm

Neanderthals More Adaptable Than Believed

Did Neanderthals develop `modern' tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, or could they adapt, innovate and evolve technology on their own?   A new anthropology study challenges a half-century of conventional wisdom that Neandert ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2010 - 7:14pm

Human society and global society and world peace

Since the man came to present form the countries originated around the globe and within a span of 50 years the number of member of United Nations has increased in several dozens in a span of 40 years only. Boundaries of societies have become boundaries of ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 25 2010 - 12:51am

Human societies political system and power to win votes in a democratic system

There are only some science subjects if you go by the word science i.e. social science, political science, military science which have science word attached to them. Clearly they deal with society but they actually deal with science of society. What makes ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 25 2010 - 3:57am

Neanderthals In Love? Four Stages Of Human Compassion Through Time

New research by archaeologists from the University of York says that Neanderthals were a lot more compassionate than their reputation as brutish cavemen. How do you chart the 'compassion' of early humans? ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2010 - 4:02am

Why People Unfriend You On Facebook- The Science Answer

Some of the most pressing questions in science aren't how to better treat cancer or solve global warming, they're instead practical things like why a stranger on the Internet takes you off of a pretend friend list. In the old days, email lists ha ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 6 2010 - 10:07am

Rarity- Koro, A Brand New Language, Discovered

I had no idea there were entire languages left to discover.   Then again, I had no idea there was a group called the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages either, but exist they both do.   The linguists, doing a project for National Geographic, ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 6 2010 - 12:06pm