» Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama
06/26/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to… The post Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Power Tools
10/07/22 17:45 from Invisibilia
Bad bosses. Obnoxious coworkers. Unfair compensation. There are so many reasons people feel disempowered in the workplace. But how can our feelings about power enable or disrupt the larger dynamics we hate at work? This week, Yowei Shaw ...
» What Vietnam’s Scarred Lands Reveal About Modern Warfare
07/08/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
Fifty years on, Vietnam is still reckoning with the long-term ecological toll of U.S. warfare—a grim warning as Israel and… The post What Vietnam’s Scarred Lands Reveal About Modern Warfare appeared first on SAPIENS .
» The Natural Resources Defense Council offers a new map of lead pipes, which are a problem in all 50 states
06/27/25 11:40 from The Rural Blog
» 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 ...
» Opinion: Public lands should not be sold. Open lands are our shared 'inheritance. . . and space of democracy'
07/08/25 12:57 from The Rural Blog
» 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.
» Food banks are already stretched thin, and changes to SNAP benefits are likely to leave some Americans hungry
07/15/25 12:50 from The Rural Blog
» 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 ...
» Many rural folks scoff at the idea that Trump-law Medicaid cuts prompted their hospital's planned closure
07/15/25 12:45 from The Rural Blog
» An [un]Heroic Journey
07/14/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
A Tanzanian poet unseats the illusionist tale of the mission museum of the Archabbey of St. Ottilien in Germany. ✽… The post An [un]Heroic Journey appeared first on SAPIENS .
» 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, ...
» Freedom Diving
09/30/22 03:00 from Invisibilia
After months of working from home and retreating from the world, Kia Miakka Natisse is stuck - in her house, and in her head. In an attempt to break out of the funk, she's searching for wisdom at the bottom of the ocean with South Africa...
» How Cultural Knowledge Sustained Desert Farms in the Ancient Andes
06/11/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
An archaeologist who studies past farming practices in the north coast of Peru argues these offer models for navigating current… The post How Cultural Knowledge Sustained Desert Farms in the Ancient Andes appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Volunteers Leverage OCR to Transcribe Library of Congress Digital Collections
05/19/25 11:57 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. The Library of Congress launched the By the People crowdsourced transcription program in 2...
» 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...
» Heirs' property can leave family members with 'tangled titles' that limit wealth and contribute to rural housing shortages
06/27/25 11:50 from The Rural Blog
» Department of Veterans Affairs reverses course on mass layoffs after pushback
07/08/25 12:59 from The Rural Blog
» 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.
» 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...
» Opinion: Medicaid changes in the federal 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' will have the most impact on rural America
07/11/25 11:50 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...
» Work Zones Ahead!
04/06/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Michigan is paving new transfer pathways.
» 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...
» 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...
» To Raise Children, We Must First Raise Parents
07/15/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist compares her early motherhood in London with child care experiences in a hunter-gatherer community of Central Africa. ✽… The post To Raise Children, We Must First Raise Parents appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Fatal Texas flooding leads to controversy over National Weather Service staffing cuts
07/08/25 12:58 from The Rural Blog
» As the U.S. measles outbreak continues, experts see its spread as a harbinger for the return of other diseases
07/15/25 12:55 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 ...
» The Chaos Machine: A Looping Revolt
05/13/21 15:52 from Invisibilia
Is 209 Times helping or hurting the community it claims to serve? What does the site mean for the future of local news in America? And what can be done about it? In the final installment of "The Chaos Machine" series , Yowei finds hersel...
» Advising Day
04/04/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
An idea worth stealing.
» Why Do Swallows Fly to the Korean DMZ?
06/25/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist discovers diasporic flights—including her own—that begin at and return to the waters of the demilitarized zone between North… The post Why Do Swallows Fly to the Korean DMZ? appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Highlights From a Transfer Report
04/07/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Some welcome good news.
» 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...
» 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.
» 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?
» Snapshots of Losing Jenna
07/09/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist offers a lens on how losses from war dramatically alter a family—and a society. ✽ BEFORE I FORMALLY… The post Snapshots of Losing Jenna appeared first on SAPIENS .
» The U.S. Declaration of Independence voices the conflicts of the past and the country's ideals
07/08/25 12:56 from The Rural Blog
» Quick hits: Kentucky history in photos; rural SNAP use; world's biggest telescope; gloomy toy tariffs; radishes!
07/08/25 12:55 from The Rural Blog
» 09/17/21 PHD comic: 'The COVID-19 Virus Explained'
09/18/21 14:13 from PHD Comics
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: " The COVID-19 Virus Explained " - originally published 9/17/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
» Poop Friends
10/28/21 14:26 from Invisibilia
Sh*t happens. So why is it so hard to talk about? This week, the ways that poop divides and binds us in our friendships.
» 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...
» 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...
» 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...
» 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...
» 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.
» Friends with Benefits
10/21/21 14:47 from Invisibilia
A lot of us think that it's a bad idea to get physical with friends. We worry it'll get messy, maybe even ruin the friendship. But if physical intimacy between friends weren't so taboo, what could our friendships look like? In this episo...
» Season 7: New Stories. New Hosts.
04/19/21 03:00 from Invisibilia
Invisibilia is back! Stories that help you see the world differently, with new hosts Kia Miakka Natisse and Yowei Shaw.
» 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?