Anthropology

Snacking is the new American pastime, acccording to the recent survey by Mintel which found that nearly all Americans (94 percent) report snacking at least once a day and 50 percent of adults snack two to three times per day. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2015 - 8:00am

Who Has The Most Babies, Wins: A System Analysis Of America’s Angst

Facebook traffic and news items tell us a lot of Americans of northern European extraction are anxious and even fearful about the prospect that White Americans will soon be a minority. A subset seems further offended by court decisions bestowing civil righ ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jul 18 2015 - 6:31pm

Henry V's Agincourt Naval Fleet Smaller Than Previously Believed

The Battle of Agincourt, a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War, will have its 600th anniversary on October 25th, 2015, but they had actually landed in August. How big was the fleet that carried the army? Henry V’s naval fleet, used to tran ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2015 - 8:00am

Chimpanzees Binge On Clay To Detox

Wild chimpanzees in the forests of Uganda are increasingly eating clay to supplement the minerals in their diet, according to a long-term study published in PLOS ONE. The paper led by the University of Oxford describes how the researchers observed wild ch ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2015 - 10:30am

It's Naive To Pretend Differences Between Women And Men Are Just Genetics

It's naïve to pretend there are no profound genetic and epigenetic differences between the sexes. Elephant Gun Studios, CC BY-NC Gender differences and sexual preferences are frequently a point of conversation. What produces the differences between m ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 31 2015 - 10:00am

Animal Sex Is Spicier Than We Thought

There’s an idea circulating that humans are the only animal to experience sexual pleasure; that we approach sex in a way that is distinct from others. As with many questions about sex, this exposes some interesting facts about the way we discuss the subje ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 1 2015 - 9:01am

Opioid Use And Sexual Violence Among Drug-using Young Adults In NYC

The non-medical use of prescription opioids (POs) has become an area of increasing public health concern in the United States and rates of use are particularly high among young adults. In the past decade, an emerging "epidemic" of non-medical PO ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2015 - 10:30am

How Common Is Sexting?

The practice of "sexting"- the sending or receiving of sexually suggestive or explicit content via text message, primarily using a mobile device- may be more common than generally thought among adults. More than eight out of 10 people surveyed o ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2015 - 9:43am

Social Perfectionism And Why Suicide Unfairly Impacts Men

Finally, Drummond had everything he’d ever dreamed of. He’d come a long way since he was a little boy, upset at his failure to get into the grammar school. That had been a great disappointment to his mother, and to his father, who was an engineer at a pha ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Aug 14 2015 - 8:56am

Sociology Seeks To Predict Gang Killings

Gang slayings move in a systematic pattern over time, spreading from one vulnerable area to the next like a disease, according to a paper by Michigan State University criminologists and public health researchers. That means there is a threshold where herd ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2015 - 8:55am