Coevolution Helps Santa's Reindeer Feast After Flight
Reindeer vision may have evolved to spot favorite food in the snowy dark of winter.
[more]Reindeer vision may have evolved to spot favorite food in the snowy dark of winter.
[more]An analysis of declassified imagery identifies 396 forts spanning from Syria to Iraq.
[more]"We need to understand more about how these tools can be useful, under what circumstances, for whom, and to remain vigilant in surfacing their limitations and potential harms," the research associate professor of anthropology tells Mashable about using digital tools such as ChatGPT for therapy. Read more at: https://dartgo.org/quotedcarpentersong123
[more]Americans have long been fascinated with "jumbo" things: jumbo shrimp, jumbo jets, jumbotrons. Perhaps few know, however, that the word and the imagery it invokes of larger-than-life objects is rooted in the legacy of Jumbo, a celebrity elephant of the 1880s made famous by the London Zoo, P.T. Barnum and the Barnum & Bailey Circus.
[more]Dartmouth College anthropology professor Sergei Kan was born in the Soviet Union just a few months after the death of Stalin. He came to the United States in 1974 at the age of 21 and received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Chicago. He teaches courses at Dartmouth on the native peoples of Alaska, on the Jewish diaspora, and on Russia. Next year—the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Gulag Archipelago—Dr. Kan will teach a course titled "Red Terror: The History and Culture of the Stalin Labor Camps." Dr. Kan has been kind enough to offer our viewers a preview of the seminar in advance.
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