Really appreciated your interview wrt time at SAPIENS. Thank you so much for so many contributions!

Wrinkles are conspicuous agism and more

The Making of a Wrinkle Convert A cultural anthropologist stages a small rebellion against wrinkle stigma by embracing the lines on his face.

www.sapiens.org/culture/the-...

Ha! Guilty! If I had only seen a couple of ravens, it would have been an unkindness!

So you saw a murder?

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.

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.

wapo.st/3DUcVQM

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...

Beautiful landscape photo showing clouds reflecting off water in Baker's Wetlands, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.

Baker's Wetlands, Lawrence, Kansas, USA 🇺🇸.

🙏🏼🌎🕊️

📷 Photo by May-Lum Davidson©️ | The Cloud Appreciation Society

Stunning landscape photo of distant sunset piercing through clouds, from the Clwydian Range above Denbigh, North Wales, United Kingdom, looking west towards Snowdonia.

"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."

📷 Photo by Rhiannon Wolf©️ | The Cloud Appreciation Society

This article is at heart about resistance to the anti-wrinkle industrial/cultural complex

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...

Augustin Fuentes has a balanced take on scientists' role in politics
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Making of a Wrinkle Convert A cultural anthropologist stages a small rebellion against wrinkle stigma by embracing the lines on his face.

www.sapiens.org/culture/the-...

"Warspeak" Puts All of Us in the Trenches From "war rooms" to "battleground states," the political lexicon of "Warspeak" in the U.S. distorts people's experiences of others.

www.sapiens.org/language/war....

Eclectic Intellection Podcast - Episode 3:

Jean Rouch and Anthropology: A Conversation with Paul Stoller

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

#JeanRouch #Anthropology

The Right Has a Bluesky Problem The X exodus is weakening a way for conservatives to speak to the masses.

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.