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Rethinking Rank And Privilege In Human Societies
Thursday, 6 February 2025, 1:36 pm | Human Bridges
By applying a concept widely used in mathematics and computer science, Carole Crumley has radically changed the way anthropologists see and study societies. More >>
The Venetian Republic Offers Powerful Lessons To An American One In Need Of Repair
Sunday, 26 January 2025, 6:56 pm | Human Bridges
The Venetian Republic’s political system, emerging alongside those of other Italian city-states, was founded on collaboration and power distribution. Its rise and decline highlight the importance of adaptability in the face of shifting global political ... More >>
Our Ability To Think In Terms Of Numbers Is Universal, Abstract, And Independent From Language
Friday, 24 January 2025, 9:00 am | Human Bridges
Frederick L. Coolidge explains the link between numerosity and language. More >>
How Archaeologists Can Solve The Earth’s ‘Wicked Problems’
Saturday, 18 January 2025, 6:52 pm | Human Bridges
Wicked problems are deeply entangled with one another, meaning that any solution to one problem may exacerbate other problems elsewhere. Climate change and social injustice are a well-known example of this entanglement. More >>
The Controversy Over Cannibalism
Wednesday, 25 December 2024, 10:14 am | Human Bridges
The discovery of a prion disease, kuru, in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea that was transmitted by consuming contaminated human brain tissue of family members during funeral rites demonstrated that cannibalism exists in living cultures. More >>
Not As Simple As 1, 2, 3: Humanity Has A Surprisingly Diverse Understanding Of Numbers
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 10:52 pm | Human Bridges
Language plays an important role in understanding the concept of numbers. More >>
How Republics Succeed, Falter, And Fail
Monday, 9 December 2024, 7:06 am | Human Bridges
The United States today faces inherent challenges that have weakened the republic, making lessons from the Roman Republic even more necessary to avoid greater political instability. More >>
The Hunter-Gatherer Guide To Keeping Society Equal
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 3:29 pm | Human Bridges
It seems that the last human societies on earth to live the mobile lifestyles that our species maintained for hundreds of thousands of years do so largely as equals—but equals who must be very careful to stay that way. More >>
Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us To Rethink Our Relationships With Them
Friday, 4 October 2024, 11:40 am | Human Bridges
The broad consensus is that many species are sentient. More >>
The Growth Of Malignant And Exclusionary Social Movements
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 4:00 am | Human Bridges
The result is a crisis of democracy, stunting people’s faith in collective self-government owing to its inability to help address practical problems such as climate change, economic inequality, and mass migration. More >>
Keys To Building Human Bridges To The Past
Monday, 30 September 2024, 10:50 pm | Human Bridges
Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about the past. More >>
The Surprising Ways Inventions And Ideas Spread In Ancient Prehistory
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:21 am | Human Bridges
You can learn a lot about humanity from the first technological revolutions of more than 10,000 years ago. More >>
Robert Sapolsky: Are We Better Off Accepting That There’s No Free Will?
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:15 pm | Human Bridges
Interviewing the neuroscientist and primate behavior expert on a question that could radically change our understanding of reality. More >>
Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:03 pm | Human Bridges
Our investigation of the disastrous society-wide collapses of four premodern polities, China’s Ming Dynasty, the South Asian Mughal Empire, the High Roman Empire, and Renaissance Venice led to the discovery of an unexpected historical pattern. More >>
The Role Of Ancient DNA In Modern Traits
Sunday, 4 August 2024, 5:17 pm | Human Bridges
Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, a new study suggests. More >>
Facing A Surge In Wildfires, The U.S. Government Turned To Native Wisdom And Advanced Archaeology
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 9:30 am | Human Bridges
Collaborative efforts between forest agencies and Indigenous communities are improving wildfire management by combining oral histories with long-term archaeological datasets, demonstrating the value of integrating an understanding of the past into solutions More >>
Can Teething Predict How Fast You Will Grow?
Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 10:11 am | Human Bridges
By Brenna R. Hassett We know that humans live relatively long lives, and we certainly know that we spend a larger proportion of those lives as children than other species. The question remains: how did we manage to extend this critical period of our growth? ... More >>
Roman Oligarchs Avoided Tax Liability And Restrictions On Land Size
Friday, 7 June 2024, 9:33 am | Human Bridges
The oligarchic tradition of land-grabbing and tax dodging goes back centuries. More >>
What Happened To Our Ape Ancestors?
Friday, 31 May 2024, 8:18 pm | Human Bridges
What happened to the extinct species, which have been identified in Eurasian fossil remains over recent decades? How did some apes of these species persist and evolve? And, the most hotly debated question: Did the apes who were our human ancestors originate ... More >>
Modern (Mis)interpretations Of Clean Slates
Friday, 31 May 2024, 7:51 pm | Human Bridges
Today’s creditor-oriented ideology depicts the archaic past as much like our own world, as if civilization was developed by individuals thinking in terms of modern orthodoxy. More >>
