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anthrofun.bsky.social
@anthrofun.bsky.social
It’s still all anthropology: people, places, & patterns.
Cloud Appreciation Society member no. 35,496.
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The GOP is laying the groundwork to cut federal health spending by arguing that access to medical care doesn’t make you sick — other societal ills do. Poor nutrition, neurotoxins, etc.
Unfortunately, the rest of the GOP agenda will make those other problems worse, too.

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Opinion | Society is making you sick, GOP says. Too bad their plans will make you sicker.
“Make America Healthy Again” might be a laudable plan — if GOP policies didn’t contradict GOP goals.
wapo.st
January 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Where did Santa get his name? How did St Nicholas become the children's patron? What do the Dutch have to do with it? How about early New York patriots? The Civil War? Is Father Christmas the same guy? I learned quite a lot researching this.

www.economist.com/the-economis...
December 17, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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Baker's Wetlands, Lawrence, Kansas, USA 🇺🇸.

🙏🏼🌎🕊️

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December 12, 2024 at 11:04 AM
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"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854.

"From the Clwydian Range above Denbigh, North Wales, United Kingdom, looking west towards Snowdonia this evening."

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November 27, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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Augustin Fuentes has a balanced take on scientists' role in politics
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
www.science.org
November 23, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Eclectic Intellection Podcast - Episode 3:

Jean Rouch and Anthropology: A Conversation with Paul Stoller

eclectic-intellection.simplecast.com/episodes/jea...

#JeanRouch #Anthropology
November 20, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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As the left flees and X loses broader relevance, it becomes a more overtly right-wing site, @alibreland.bsky.social writes. But the right needs liberals on X in order to push conservative perspectives into the mainstream.
The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
The X exodus is weakening a way for conservatives to speak to the masses.
www.theatlantic.com
November 23, 2024 at 3:55 PM