Anthropology
- The Predicament Of Diversity: No One Agrees On What It Means
-
“Diversity” as a concept has a lexical and political value all its own, with a widespread appeal. The problem with that is, however, that no one actually has the same idea of what diversity actually means. There is some consensus that the concept has, ove ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 26 2023 - 2:58pm
- Minorities Don't Buy Populist Rhetoric Of Either US Party As Much As Whites Do
-
America is one of the most religiously, racially and ethnically diverse countries in the world, but that doesn't mean Latinos, Asians or Blacks believe that Democrats and Republicans want them as anything more than reliable voting blocs. A new analysi ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 31 2024 - 10:43am
- Social Media Brings Out Our Baser Natures- Anger Is Rising In Democracies
-
Like old media such as newspapers and televisions, content on social media is tailored toward audience engagement. Television and newspapers have long known that 'dead bodies sell' but in social media it can be sold in real-time. It has sped up i ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 12 2024 - 2:00pm
- Civilization (And Beer): An Enormous Improvement On The Lack Thereof
-
Fermentation Came First Evidence mounts almost daily that beer started humans on the path to civilization even before the invention of agriculture some twelve thousand years ago. A paper in Evolutionary Anthropology says that, based on tests of artifacts, ...
Article - Norm Benson - Apr 8 2024 - 3:33pm
- The Oldest Profession May Be Fashion Design
-
There are five professions(1) but lots of occupations and trades lay claim to being the oldest one despite predating the concept by millennia. Farming is around 14,000 years old but a new study reveals one less-considered trade predates it by tens of thous ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2024 - 11:07am
- Twice As Many Trans People Get Cirrhosis
-
A new analysis has found that cirrhosis, a liver disease that occurs when scar tissue prevents the liver from functioning normally, occurs twice as often in trans adults as those whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2024 - 12:02pm
- When Did Humans Migrate To Australia?
-
Every country has people claiming to be native now, whereas in previous generations if you were born there, you were native. In reality, outside the cradle in Africa, no one is native. Everyone was an immigrant, and over time everyone calling themselves na ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2024 - 11:02am
- The Toxic Masculinity Of Disney Movies
-
Once upon a time, stories were just stories. They were fantasies that took people to a new world. In the 21st century, cultural pundits insisted that books, films, video games and television shape our personalities. It began in the 1980s when Democrats wa ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 19 2024 - 5:00am
- Less Genetic Blaming: The Horrors Of Eugenics, Then And Now
-
Why is the world so full of "morons" and "degenerates" and what, if anything, can be done to fix them? These are questions that Robert W. Sussman, PhD, a professor of anthropology in Arts&Sciences at Washington University in St. Lo ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2024 - 12:52pm
Know Science And Want To Write?
Donate or Buy SWAG
Please donate so science experts can write
for the public.
At Science 2.0, scientists are the journalists,
with no political bias or editorial control. We
can't do it alone so please make a difference.
We are a nonprofit science journalism
group operating under Section 501(c)(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code that's
educated over 300 million people.
You can help with a tax-deductible
donation today and 100 percent of your
gift will go toward our programs,
no salaries or offices.
