Articles in the Category: Anthropology
Google Documents Iraqi Museum Treasures
Google is documenting the artifacts of Iraq’s national museum. Google chief Eric Schmidt toured the museum Tuesday, and said the photographs would be available for viewing online in 2010.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips on 11 10th, 2009 | No Comments
2012 Hoax Debunked
2012 is becoming the conspiratorial talk of the town. And a new Sony Pictures disaster movie by the same name only seems to be confusing matters. NASA even posted a Q & A page on its Web site.
Here’s the gist of the kitchen sink hoax. It starts with the end of the Mayan calendar, adds a mystery...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Space on 10 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud
Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah
A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biochemistry, Health and Medicine, Math, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, SciLebs, Science & Entertainment, economics on 10 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Ig Nobel Prizes Irreverent in Science
While most serious scientists are wringing their hands, wondering who will win the Nobel prizes, a different group of scientists is celebrating the lighter–but just as bona fide–side of science.
The 19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony shined a silly look at science at Harvard last...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Geology, New Discoveries, New Species, Video on 10 6th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Ardi, the Oldest Hominid Found in Ethiopia
Last week, after 17 years of secrecy, scientists announced they had found the oldest example of the human lineage. Her name is Ardi, short for Ardipithecus ramidus, and she is a 4.4 million year old fossil.
Ardi was found in the famous Rift Valley of Ethiopia, where other fossils, like Lucy were discovered....
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astrobiology, Books, Dinosaurs, Environment, Geology, Podcast, SciClips on 08 26th, 2009 | No Comments
Stories in Stone
Urban geologist David Williams is a big stone kinda guy. He is not one to shy away from a nice chunk of gneiss. Nor will he wilt at the sight of weathered brownstone–one of his favorites.
Now, the author of Stories in Stone: Travels in Urban Geology, Williams shares his passion for rocks–from...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Backyard Science, Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Environment, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Math, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, Plants, SciClips, Space, Video on 08 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Turning the iPhone into the SciPhone
Just over a year old, the Apple iTunes App Store is churning out–or rather independent developers are–applications to calculate tips, find restaurants and even play countless games. But there is little for the science-interested smart phone users.
Oh sure, among the tens of thousands of...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Featured Articles, New Species, SciClips, Video on 05 26th, 2009 | No Comments
On the Origin of the Specious (Discovery)
A new fossil in the ever-growing list of incremental species that outline the history of human evolution may not be the missing link after all. A week after Ida’s debut on the paleontological scene, scientists are taking a closer look at her place in our phylogenetic map.
A new documentary on...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biology, Featured Articles, Video on 05 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Missing Link Found
The nearly complete and remarkably preserved skeleton of a small lemur-monkey found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans.
“This is as good as it gets,” says Dr. Jorn Hurum, the University of Oslo...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Featured Articles, Podcast on 03 26th, 2009 | No Comments
Lucy’s Luck
Kelly Frederick with Lucy
The the most famous hominid ever found just returned to her home in Ethiopia after a two-year trip to the U.S. She spent five months at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, where she wowed over 100,000 visitors with her tiny size and bipedal nature.
She left many scratching...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Physics and Chemistry, Science of..., The Brain, Video on 03 4th, 2009 | No Comments
Chemistry of Love
Dr. Helen Fisher, the author of Why Him, Why Her talks about the power of love–from a chemical point of view. The chemicals dopamine, serotonin, estrogen, and testosterone and are powerful forces in attracting a mate.
Does the opposites-attract idea hold up under scientific scrutiny? Or is like...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Biology, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 02 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
Forensic Science Under the Microscope
A new National Academy of Sciences report has found that many of the clever ways crime scene investigators analyze evidence and find suspects is itself suspect and not based on a lot of science.
But forensic evidence is one of the most widely used practices in the criminal justice system. And, to call...
A Matter of Taste
Are you a taster, a non-taster or a super-taster? If you are a taster you probably think broccoli, spinach and brussels sprouts taste bitter.
New research shows how duplicate copies of the bitter taste gene is important to uncovering secrets of the human genome.
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Lucy Gets a Body Scan
The University of Texas digitally scanned an ancient pre-human fossil known as “Lucy”. She is currently on Exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. See her before she heads back to Ethiopia after March 8.
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Anthropology, Bioethics, Video on 02 9th, 2009 | No Comments
Darwin Year Begins with a Big Birthday
2009 is Darwin year, the bicentenary of the British naturalist’s birth, and 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work “The Origin of Species.” An exhibition has opened in London’s Museum of Natural History.
The major milestone was to have begun the Year of Evolution...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Biology, Endangered Species, New Species, SciClips on 11 25th, 2008 | No Comments
Trailing Tarsiers
Pygmy Tarsier, Sept. 2008, courtesy of Sharon Gursky-Doyen, Texas A&M.
They look like the animated robots, called Furbys, from the 1990s. And, they could be mistaken for the fictional gremlins.
But pygmy tarsiers are real. And, much to the surprise of many scientists, they are not extinct.
They...
You Aren’t What You Eat
Dr. Peter Ungar, courtesy of University of Arkansas
Chew on this. The old adage, “You are what you eat” may not hold water after all.
Anthropologists have uncovered evidence that ancient humans were built to eat hard, crunchy objects but they probably didn’t eat them unless softer...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Around the Americas, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 05 24th, 2007 | 3 Comments
Clovis Comet
Douglas Kennett
Jon Erlandson
A controversial new theory about the disappearance of Clovis man and 35 North American animal species is making waves in geology circles. Two University of Oregon anthropologists are part of a group of 26 who think a comet crashed into Earth 13,000 years ago, causing...
