» 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...

» Were Twins the Norm in Our Primate Past?
02/04/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
New research uncovers how the last common primate ancestors typically birthed twins until evolutionary pressures began to favor singletons—likely driven… The post Were Twins the Norm in Our Primate Past? appeared first on SAPIENS .

» Hundreds of rural hospitals are 'vulnerable to closure' and 46% operate in the red, new report finds
02/18/25 13:59 from The Rural Blog

» 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.

» 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?

» Thousands of federal agriculture probationary employees terminated. USDA warns, 'This is just the beginning.'
02/18/25 13:55 from The Rural Blog

» What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: 2024 Wrap-Up!
01/06/25 10:03 from The Signal
Happy 2025 to all of our Signal subscribers! In this special edition of “What’s New Online at the Library of Congress,” we’re looking back on some of our new digital collections releases in 2024. Do you have a favorite digital collection...

» 08/31/23 PHD comic: 'New Book! Oliver's Great Big Universe!'
12/14/21 14:53 from PHD Comics
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " New Book! Oliver's Great Big Universe! " - originally published 8/31/2023 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!

» Brazil is going to eat you up! {part 5}: trying to not eat myself
12/29/23 15:59 from anthro{dendum}
This is not an academic text. Wow. It has been several months since I last posted something here in AD. It’s kinda weird trying to survive a pandemic amid a coup d’état attempt here in Brazil. For that and for my lack of prod...

» Beachcombers find their treasure in washed-up items from the sea. Items include rubber ducks and diamond rings.
02/07/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog

» The 2023 Anthropology Blog Resurvey Project
12/05/23 18:26 from anthro{dendum}
As many of us already know, in the last decade or so we’ve seen some big changes with anthropology & archaeology online, particularly in relation to blogs. In short, there aren’t too many these days. This is due to what w...

» The Goodbye Show
04/27/23 18:40 from Invisibilia
In their final episode, Invisibilia searches for the right way to say goodbye.

» Emic/Etic
02/10/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
A poet-anthropologist offers an “anti-glossary” to contest ways of knowing in social science that objectify people(s) into categories. “Emic/Etic” is… The post Emic/Etic appeared first on SAPIENS .

» 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?

» Work Zones Ahead!
04/06/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Michigan is paving new transfer pathways.

» New research shows rural Americans -- especially men -- have shorter lifespans than their urban counterparts
02/14/25 11:35 from The Rural Blog

» Join the Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon on February 14
02/06/25 10:43 from The Signal
Today’s guest post is from Lauren Algee, a Senior Digital Collections Specialist & By the People community manager at the Library of Congress. On February 14, the Library of Congress transcription program By the People will celebrate...

» U.S. has about 60 venison donation programs in 42 states that help to feed hungry Americans
02/07/25 11:48 from The Rural Blog

» 10/22/21 PHD comic: 'Current Status'
10/25/21 05:09 from PHD Comics
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " Current Status " - originally published 10/22/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!

» “Can We Capture This?”: An Interview on Website Archivability
12/17/24 09:00 from The Signal
Earlier this year, the Library of Congress and our web harvest vendor MirrorWeb presented research on website archivability at the 2024 Web Archiving Conference at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. The presentation was part ...

» Envisioning a More Empathetic Treatment of Great Ape Remains
02/06/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
Many museums are reckoning with the colonial legacies of the human remains and cultural objects in their collections. Now anthropologists… The post Envisioning a More Empathetic Treatment of Great Ape Remains appeared first on SAPI...

» 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...

» Marketing Is a Code Word
04/04/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Marketing is a go-to solution but sometimes masks deeper issues.

» Educators work to calm students' and parents' fears about immigration raids by sharing policies and ICE limitations
02/18/25 13:53 from The Rural Blog

» 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...

» Fund used to buffer U.S. farmers from tariff wars is dwindling; rural America could face an 'immense fallout'
02/07/25 11:55 from The Rural Blog

» American Slow Radio
06/12/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Let's get slow. Producer Abby Wendle picks up the gauntlet that was thrown down in the last episode " The Great Narrative Escape ." Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

» 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.

» Sunset
12/13/23 07:25 from anthro{dendum}
Dear readers, We are sorry to say that after eighteen years, we are going to be shutting down this blog at the end of the year. We will write a longer farewell post later on, but we wanted to announce that we are closing this site and pr...

» Highlights From a Transfer Report
04/07/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Some welcome good news.

» Trust Fall
06/13/20 15:00 from Invisibilia
Hacking, phishing, surveillance, disinformation... these are tools used to silence dissidents and influence elections. But what happens when these same methods are used against an ordinary citizen? The story of a man fighting an enemy he...

» 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.

» A Spacecraft’s Dance From French Guiana to Jupiter
02/11/25 09:33 from SAPIENS
As the European Space Agency launches its flagship mission to explore Jupiter’s moons, an anthropologist explores the gap between launch… The post A Spacecraft’s Dance From French Guiana to Jupiter appeared first on SAPIENS .

» Rural health care clinics scrape by or close as the federal funding freeze ripples through community health sector
02/11/25 12:55 from The Rural Blog

» Southern states spend millions on new clinics to serve rural residents. It's one way to avoid federal Medicaid expansion.
02/07/25 11:40 from The Rural Blog

» 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 ...

» Making money off of money can be done at many banks, but they don't have to disclose better deals
02/07/25 11:35 from The Rural Blog

» There and back again
12/31/23 15:38 from anthro{dendum}
It’s fitting that I’m writing my last post for this site in Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, where I’d did all my doctoral fieldwork. That was back between 2009-2012. I joined the previous incarnation of this site, Savage Minds, after a guest bloggin...

» The First Space Launch for Mauritius
02/11/25 09:32 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist recounts how a small island nation built and deployed its first satellite—and what their effort says about unequal… The post The First Space Launch for Mauritius appeared first on SAPIENS .

» Opinion: Answers to rural community struggles can be found in rural America, and solutions need to be shared.
02/11/25 12:35 from The Rural Blog

» Therapy, with Friends
11/04/21 17:07 from Invisibilia
Would you ever consider going to therapy with a friend?Two best friends who call themselves brothers were drifting apart, so they asked psychotherapist Esther Perel to help — and we listened in. This episode was recorded in collaboration...

» Exoskeletons could help farm work efficiency and safety, but many farmers don't know about the benefits.
02/14/25 11:30 from The Rural Blog

» Many Roads Can Lead to the Same Place: An Interview with Genevieve Havemeyer-King
12/31/24 10:54 from The Signal
Today’s blog post is an interview with Genevieve Havemeyer-King of the Digital Services Directorate here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Carlyn: Hi Gen, could you tell us a b...

» 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, ...

» Why Worry?
04/05/23 12:26 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
8 reasons to worry about higher education’s future.

» 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 ...

» Do You Remember Who Spoke at Your Commencement?
04/04/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Does it matter who speaks and what they say?

» The battle for egg farmers is stressful and riddled with uncertainty. They are 'begging for a new approach.'
02/07/25 11:50 from The Rural Blog

» Farmers are 'on the hook' for millions of dollars in repairs and improvements as promised USDA funds are paused
02/11/25 12:50 from The Rural Blog

» Volunteer Vignette: History is a Living Thing
12/20/24 09:52 from The Signal
In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Justin Kern, who serves as the Division Communications Director for the American Red Cross. By the People is a crowdsourced transcription program launched in 2018 at the...