» Eat The Rich
04/22/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Invisibilia explores a social experiment with money, focused around a contentious topic: reparations. What happens when you demand white people give up their wealth?
» What’s Behind a Michelin Star?
08/06/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
As judges scout new restaurants to evaluate in U.S. cities, an anthropologist investigates the elite, Eurocentric history of the Michelin… The post What’s Behind a Michelin Star? appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Analysis: Rural Coloradans feel ignored and 'looked down on.' A policy expert looks at how and why.
08/15/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog
» When People—and Files—Talk Back to Bureaucracy
08/19/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
Two ethnographic filmmakers enter the government maze in India, documenting how citizens make claims on the state while imagining alternate… The post When People—and Files—Talk Back to Bureaucracy appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Chronicling the Creation, Distribution, and Consumption of Media: Inside the Mass Communications Web Archive
07/02/25 09:30 from The Signal
In this interview, Amber Paranick and Kelly Bennett discuss their work on the Mass Communications Archive, a collection that documents how media is created, distributed, and consumed in the digital age. Drawing on their expertise as refe...
» Some residents in rural Mason, Tenn., don't want a migrant detention center in their town, but it's coming anyway
08/15/25 11:40 from The Rural Blog
» Texas cattle owners remain on 'high alert' as a human infection of New World screwworm is confirmed
08/26/25 12:55 from The Rural Blog
» The P-Word
09/09/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
Alex is a comic who feels perfectly comfortable commanding a packed, rowdy audience, but consistently submits to what other people want in everyday life. This week, a look at how uncomfortable feelings about power can backfire on ourselv...
» Why Worry?
04/05/23 12:26 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
8 reasons to worry about higher education’s future.
» 3 Questions for Todd Nicolet, Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC
04/06/23 21:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
On online learning and alternative academic careers.
» The Tangled Roots of Corruption in Today’s South Africa
08/14/25 09:47 from SAPIENS
A legal scholar turned anthropologist connects South Africa’s colonial and apartheid past to corruption she witnesses while shadowing parole officers.… The post The Tangled Roots of Corruption in Today’s South Africa appeared first...
» In Zambia, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Chinese Migrants Find Common Ground
08/20/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
In many parts of Africa, investments and migration from China have sparked tensions with local residents—but some Chinese migrants are… The post In Zambia, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Chinese Migrants Find Common Ground appeared first ...
» International Friend of Mystery
09/30/21 14:40 from Invisibilia
You know the old saying--keep your friends close and your enemies closer. But what if you can't tell the difference? In this episode, the story of two friends who got caught up in a Top Secret operation that tested their assumptions abou...
» Five Questions for Agustín Fuentes
08/01/25 15:47 from SAPIENS
In this live discussion with Agustín Fuentes about his new book, Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,… The post Five Questions for Agustín Fuentes appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Looking back, looking forward
12/20/23 07:45 from anthro{dendum}
The blog may be shutting down, but I’m not! I started blogging in 2001 and my personal blog, Keywords, is still going strong. Check out this recent post about the movie Killers of the Flower Moon. I’ve also started a newslett...
» The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project #2
12/14/23 20:01 from anthro{dendum}
Well, by now most of you have heard the news that this blog is closing down. That whole conversation was happening in the last couple of months, but really something that we’d been talking about for the past few years. Back in 2021 we al...
» Lost Faith in Higher Education
04/03/23 22:24 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Either education fulfills a promise or it doesn't. Right now, it doesn't. We shouldn't be surprised that faith has been lost.
» The Great Narrative Escape
05/20/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Imagine a TV show with no plot, no characters, no tension... and yet, it went viral! In this episode, we have a story that questions storytelling as we know it. Plus, co-hosts Kia Miakka Natisse and Yowei Shaw take a spectacularly unspec...
» The Digital Learning Summit at Notre Dame as Template for Academic Convenings
04/04/23 21:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Seven ingredients for gathering well.
» A Little Bit Pregnant
09/16/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
This week on Invisibilia, could the rebrand of a familiar pill open up a new way to control fertility in a post-Roe America?
» The Chaos Machine: Wrathful Lord
05/06/21 14:40 from Invisibilia
The man behind 209 Times is not who you'd expect. In Part 2, co-host Yowei Shaw discovers the website's surprising origin story, and ends up at the frontlines of a revolt against the mainstream media and a fight over who gets to own the ...
» Therapy Ghostbusters
09/23/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
In San Jose, California, a community clinic was stumped as to why their clients were seeing ghosts. This week, a story about grappling with ghosts of our past and one clinic's attempt to heal intergenerational trauma.
» The Many Lives of a Face Mask
08/26/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist explores how the COVID-19–era surgical face mask went from a health precaution to a fashion choice among women… The post The Many Lives of a Face Mask appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Salt and Paper in Bureaucratic Jerusalem
08/12/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
As all-out genocidal violence against Palestinians continues in Gaza, an anthropologist calls attention to how the Israeli state operates through… The post Salt and Paper in Bureaucratic Jerusalem appeared first on SAPIENS .
» From Communications Studies to Captured Content: A Junior Fellow’s Contribution to the Mass Communication Web Archive
08/20/25 09:00 from The Signal
In this blog post, 2025 Junior Fellow Kailyn Slater describes her work evaluating and expanding the Mass Communications Web Archive,
» 01/15/21 PHD comic: 'NEW BOOK! Out of Your Mind!'
01/31/22 14:24 from PHD Comics
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " NEW BOOK! Out of Your Mind! " - originally published 1/15/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
» Nothing easy about this one
01/01/24 20:14 from anthro{dendum}
I’m sitting in a semi-dark room, the electricity has just cut out, and there’s a slight chill in the air. I love being in MohenjoDaro (Sindh, Pakistan) in December. It’s cold at night and it’s hot during the day, ...
» Innovator in Residence, Vivian Li, Visits the Library
06/27/25 12:00 from The Signal
This blog post is co-authored by Isabel Brador and Sahar Kazmi. Vivian Li, the Library’s 2025 Innovator in Residence, spent several days learning from Library staff and exploring the collections during a visit to the Library in May. Her...
» Tested (Ep 1): The Choice
08/22/24 11:48 from Invisibilia
New from NPR's Embedded podcast and CBC in Canada: Would you alter your body for the chance to compete for a gold medal? That's the question facing a small group of elite athletes right now. Last year, track and field authorities announc...
» 09/24/21 PHD comic: '...Said No Academic Ever.'
09/27/21 03:04 from PHD Comics
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " ...Said No Academic Ever. " - originally published 9/24/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
» Two Heartbeats A Minute
04/10/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
The strange story of an unlikely crew of people who band together to take on one of our largest problems using nothing but whale sounds, machine learning, and a willingness to think outside the box. Even stranger, several of the world's ...
» An Unlikely Superpower
03/27/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
What if you had a superpower that allowed you to see part of the world that was to come? At the age of 60, a Scottish woman named Joy Milne discovers she has a biological gift that allows her to see things that will happen in the future ...
» Report: Despite big output, northern Appalachian states with fracking projects reap fewer rewards than expected
08/19/25 12:40 from The Rural Blog
» Adventures in chatGPT #3: Jack Kerouac Edition
12/04/23 18:17 from anthro{dendum}
When I first heard about chatGPT, the main thing I was concerned about, like many others, was that students would use it instead of writing their own work. I tried to take an open approach with it all to try to head off any potential pro...
» Invisibilia Takes Control
09/06/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
2022 feels like walking a tightrope. We're grappling with control of our bodies, our time, the direction of our country - while trying to not spin out and just doomscroll. So this season, Invisibilia takes on control. The narratives we h...
» Telemedicine provides abortion access for rural women in states where the procedure is restricted or banned
08/15/25 11:55 from The Rural Blog
» Fascinating Discoveries are Waiting Just Below the Surface: A Journey into Geocoding with Sabrina Templeton
07/24/25 12:18 from The Signal
Today’s guest post is from Sabrina Templeton, a 2025 Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress. Sabrina is pursuing her MS in Information Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to starting her degree, she worked as a so...
» Feeding Community When Government Aid Runs Dry
08/07/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
As Argentina’s economic crisis worsens, an anthropologist discusses the biological consequences of inadequate food—and why the country’s community kitchens need… The post Feeding Community When Government Aid Runs Dry appeared firs...
» New Community of Practice for Exploring Content Provenance and Authenticity in the Age of AI
07/18/25 09:52 from The Signal
Today’s post is from Abbey Potter and Isabel Brador of the Digital Strategy Directorate and Kate Murray of the Digital Collections Management & Services Division here at the Library of Congress. Since January 2025, a new Library of C...
» Tested (Ep 2): Questions of a Physical Nature
08/22/24 12:21 from Invisibilia
We go back almost 100 years, to the beginning of women's inclusion in elite sports. It turns out that men had an odd variety of concerns about women athletes. Some doubted these athletes were even women at all. And their skepticism resul...
» Measles made its way back into the U.S., but new ways to prevent the disease may be on the horizon.
08/12/25 12:40 from The Rural Blog
» Preserving a History of Digital Mapmaking: Inside the Geospatial Software and File Formats Documentation Web Archive
06/17/25 11:00 from The Signal
In this interview, Tim St. Onge and Meagan Snow explain how web archiving is preserving documentation essential to understanding the evolution of modern cartography. They outline the motivations behind the Geospatial Software and File Fo...
» White v. White?
04/03/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
A city council candidate says he's black. But his opponent accuses him of being a white man pretending to be black. If race is simply a social construct and not a biological reality, how do we determine someone's race? And who gets to de...
» Revisiting Love and Lapses: A Conversation with Code Switch host B.A. Parker
12/15/22 21:01 from Invisibilia
Sometimes the holidays are filled with the people you love. Other times, they're marked by an absence. In this special holiday episode, new Code Switch co-host and former Invisibilia producer B.A. Parker tells a story about family, loss ...
» Emergency departments in some rural areas don't have 24/7 on-site physician coverage
08/12/25 12:45 from The Rural Blog
» The Talk of the Office
04/05/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Reckoning with a reckoning.
» Hurricane-torn residents in western North Carolina try to guide recovery despite feeling voiceless at times
08/22/25 12:57 from The Rural Blog
» Quick hits: Radioactive shrimp; soybean farmers seek deal; tractor pulls; veggie-flation; 515-mile lightning strike
08/22/25 12:55 from The Rural Blog
» Military doctors try to replace therapy for PTSD with 'combat cocktails.' The practice has been linked to suicide risk.
08/15/25 11:50 from The Rural Blog
» Boar's Head plant in tiny Jarratt, Va., will reopen soon, but the company's poor sanitation record remains a concern
08/12/25 12:50 from The Rural Blog