» Should Anywhere Adventures Come to Your Town?
01/21/25 12:47 from The Signal
The following is a guest post by 2025 Innovator in Residence Vivian Li, an illustrator, comics artist and web developer from Macomb, Illinois who currently lives in Seattle. As someone who has lived in both rural Illinois and bustling S...
» 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 ...
» It’s All About the Process: An Interview with Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez
03/11/25 13:35 from The Signal
Today’s blog post is an interview with the Signal’s own Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez, here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Carlyn: Hi Pedro, could you tell us a bit about w...
» 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.
» Thank You!
01/25/24 08:39 from anthro{dendum}
Dear Readers, Over the years, some of us (the past and present members of the collective that runs this blog) have been fortunate enough to meet some of you. We say fortunate, because such encounters have always been positive. Many of yo...
» GOP lawmakers consider snipping SNAP benefits to balance tax cuts. An expert explains SNAP.
04/04/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog
» 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...
» 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...
» The Friendship Season
09/14/21 11:53 from Invisibilia
Friendship gets the Invisibilia treatment.
» Rural letter carriers rally against USPS privatization; about 51.3 million rural Americans could be impacted
04/01/25 12:35 from The Rural Blog
» Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator!
03/27/25 13:57 from The Signal
The Library will retire the Newspaper Navigator application on April 21st, 2025. Created by Benjamin Charles Germain Lee while he was in service as a Library of Congress Innovator in Residence, the application has received over 174,000 v...
» 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 ...
» Canadian travelers boycott visits to U.S., and the loss of Canadian dollars could 'upend local economies.'
03/28/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog
» Cementing the Past
04/01/25 09:22 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist investigates the ongoing impacts of the U.S.-based United Fruit Company’s fraught 1940s preservation of an ancient Maya site… The post Cementing the Past appeared first on SAPIENS .
» How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia
03/11/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist plunges into the world of Patagonian heavy metal music in Argentina to explore how the genre relates to… The post How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia appeared first on SAPIENS .
» As the battle over water fluoridation continues, rural Americans are at risk for higher rates of tooth decay
04/01/25 12:30 from The Rural Blog
» Opinion: New USDA leader says she has plans to trim the department and refocus it to help U.S. farmers and families
03/21/25 11:45 from The Rural Blog
» Erasure I and Erasure VI
03/17/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
In two erasure poems, a poet-anthropologist imagines alternative futures using text from the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar, through which the… The post Erasure I and Erasure VI appeared first on SAPIENS .
» The Talk of the Office
04/05/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
Reckoning with a reckoning.
» 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...
» 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...
» High beef prices could spike further if agricultural tariffs go into effect. Imports are holding beef costs in check.
03/21/25 11:50 from The Rural Blog
» 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 ...
» U.S. farmers already had big worries. New tariffs, USDA cuts and funding freezes have hit them 'on all fronts.'
04/04/25 11:35 from The Rural Blog
» Debate: Is the American Farm Bureau Federation on the side of small farmers?
04/04/25 11:40 from The Rural Blog
» Alternate Realities from NPR's Embedded
02/24/25 11:05 from Invisibilia
New from NPR's Embedded : Reporter Zach Mack thinks his dad has gone all in on conspiracy theories, while his father thinks that Zach is the one being brainwashed. In 2024, after the latest round of circular arguments, they decided to tr...
» 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!
» The Confrontation
03/22/20 03:03 from Invisibilia
Welcome to what is possibly the most tense and uncomfortable summer program in America! The Boston-based program aims to teach the next generation the real truth about race, and may provide some ideas for the rest of us about the right w...
» 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 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...
» The physical presence of modern technology encroaches over farmland and behind homes
04/01/25 12:45 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...
» 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...
» Fighting for Justice for the Dead—and the Living
03/04/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
A group of forensic anthropologists argues their field must reject the myth of pure objectivity and challenge systemic inequities through… The post Fighting for Justice for the Dead—and the Living appeared first on SAPIENS .
» A small town saves its local newspaper with citizen-led fundraising and a 2-year search for a new owner
03/25/25 12:40 from The Rural Blog
» Celebrating Six Years of By the People
01/10/25 10:03 from The Signal
Another incredible year made possible by volunteers Happy New Year to all our Signal blog readers and to all our By the People crowdsourced transcription program volunteers! Every year, the By the People team publishes a “happy birthday...
» 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...
» As tariff wars continue, Farm Journal asks farmers their opinion on tariffs as a trade tool
03/25/25 12:55 from The Rural Blog
» Nun of Us Are Friends
09/23/21 15:16 from Invisibilia
It's a basic tenet of friendship that you get to choose your friends. We look at two institutions that took away that choice: convents circa the 1960s and a summer program with unusual rules. What do we lose and what do we gain when we g...
» Some Republican legislators push for NPR and PBS cuts over alleged bias. Rural stations depend on public funds.
03/28/25 11:50 from The Rural Blog
» Two million rural Americans live in 'dead zones' that lack health care providers and reliable internet service
03/28/25 11:40 from The Rural Blog
» U.S. Supreme Court looks poised to allow $8 billion for rural and low-income broadband and phone services
04/01/25 12:40 from The Rural Blog
» Rural advocates push for plan to install fiber optic infrastructure as the best way to close the digital divide
03/28/25 11:58 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.
» 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 ...
» Advising Day
04/04/23 03:00 from Inside Higher Ed | Blog U
An idea worth stealing.
» When Calls for Vengeance Go Online
04/03/25 06:00 from SAPIENS
An anthropologist reckons with how digital media has changed youth gang culture dynamics—and what can be done to combat the… The post When Calls for Vengeance Go Online appeared first on SAPIENS .
» Federal plan to provide internet access to more rural areas might include satellite service, which has fans and critics
03/21/25 11:55 from The Rural Blog
» 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!
» Federal layoffs leave many military veterans unemployed. If firings continue, the 'burden will only grow on veterans.'
03/25/25 12:50 from The Rural Blog