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@jontheanthroman

Biological anthropologist, albeit with eclectic interests

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Can Mamdani fill in at cornerback for the Jets?

05.11.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
My thoughts on the Scopes Trial Centennial
My thoughts on the Scopes Trial Centennial YouTube video by Jonathan Marks

That's the face of John T. Scopes, and I made a 20-minute video about his 1925 trial that is a little bit different from the other Scopes Trial cCentennial videos.

22.07.2025 02:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now THAT's a tribute! Thank you for writing this wonderful piece @adampjohnson.bsky.social, for our dear friend, mentor, colleague @jontheanthroman.bsky.social - in celebration of his upcoming retirement. Beautifully done!❀️ ✍ πŸŽ‰ #anthropology #biologicalanthropology #science
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23.04.2025 20:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
This Is What The New York Times Doesn't Want You To See Race and Science The race controversy engendered by the recent Executive Order, β€œRestoring Truth and Sanity to American History” represent...

The Grey Lady isn't interested in this essay about race. Maybe you are.

03.04.2025 12:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

As long as we're going to get rid of pennies, how about modifying the dime to say how much it is actually worth, rather than just saying "one dime," which is trivially obvious. The quarter says "quarter dollar" and the nickel says "five cents". The dime doesn't tell you what it's worth!

10.02.2025 22:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Will Kendrick Lamar be better than Patrick Mahomes?

10.02.2025 01:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess I should work out more.

09.02.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Then the President of the United States came out publicly against sporks, unattractive teachers, and peanut allergies.

09.02.2025 14:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If we follow the ancient Roman poet Juvenal, the next six weeks will ripe for civil unrest, since the masses in the US will have neither bread (with grocery prices skyrocketing) nor circuses (Opening Day is not until March 27) to appease and distract them.

06.02.2025 19:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So the plan is to watch gas, food, and construction prices skyrocket next week, and the Dems can go, β€œNyah nyah, See, I told you so!” And it was just around a century ago that Will Rogers said, β€œI belong to no organized political party. I’m a Democrat.”

02.02.2025 03:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So I guess the model is Russia in the 1990s. The system crashes, the corporate broligarchs fight over the rubble, and whoever doesn’t fall out of a window is the winner.

02.02.2025 03:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Charlamagne Wants Dems to Embrace GOP's Model Of Incivility | The Daily Show
Charlamagne Wants Dems to Embrace GOP's Model Of Incivility | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Amen to every word!

24.01.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And with all the horrible national news, you’ve gotta admit that the GOP re-investigating January 6 to find out the truth, but not wanting to subpoena Cassidy Hutchinson because she has texts of GOP lawmakers hitting on her, is hilarious.

24.01.2025 13:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I generally don’t dabble in theological questions, but if the Dodgers had made a pact with Satan to win the World Series, what do you think the back end of the deal would look like?

09.01.2025 21:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You morons, you can't repeat the Gilded Age. That's not how history works--it only goes in one direction. Now let me take a big sip of coffee and make sure no nihilistic young Italians have built homemade weapons with which to assassinate robber barons.

09.12.2024 23:09 πŸ‘ 6246 πŸ” 1191 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 25
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Sacco and Vanzetti - Wikipedia

I'll be thinking of these guys a century ago, when the CEOs put Luigi Mangione on trial.

10.12.2024 02:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Julian S Huxley, the man who put eugenics into UNESCO | Aeon Essays Why did Julian S Huxley, first director of the UN agency, think eugenics held the key to a more evolved, harmonious world?

Nice piece on the eugenics of Julian Huxley. #hsci #hkbio #eugenics aeon.co/essays/julia...

02.12.2024 12:53 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Philosophical Dead Ends | Los Angeles Review of Books John DuprΓ© reviews Richard Dawkins’s β€œThe Genetic Book of the Dead” and Sara Imari Walker’s β€œLife as No One Knows It.”

Philosopher John Dupre shits on Richard Dawkins.

02.12.2024 13:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Marianne Sommer, The Diagrammatics of β€˜Race:’ Visualizing Human Relatedness in the History of Physical, Evolutionary, and Genetic Anthropology, ca. 1770–2020, Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024...

My review of an excellent new book.

30.11.2024 04:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, their stock has been in the shits all year, and talk is that they are going to try and sell their DNA database to a hedge fund.

28.11.2024 16:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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No wonder these assholes are going bankrupt.

18.11.2024 18:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So I guess nobody is asking for a hand recount anywhere. Weird.

18.11.2024 18:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Someone (a lot younger than me) should should probably go back and have a look at Homo-Pan-Gorilla!

18.11.2024 11:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

me too

16.11.2024 14:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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16.11.2024 14:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Think hard, because if you got this one wrong, you were scored as feebleminded on the Army Alpha IQ test in World War I.

16.11.2024 14:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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16.11.2024 00:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OK, I'm in.

15.11.2024 23:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Believe me, I could tell you stories about Duke Energy!

15.11.2024 19:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0