Posts Tagged ‘anthropology’

For Anthropology, decolonizing knowledge means supporting the academic boycott of Israel

The Palestinian call for BDS is a challenge to colonial infrastructures of knowledge and an invitation to help remake them. This challenge is central to our work as anthropologists in moving past colonial social science. Source

Museum of anthropology to be constructed in Pakdasht

TEHRAN – On Monday, Pakdasht’s tourism chief urged the need for the construction of an anthropology museum to spotlight the diverse heritage of the ancient town. Source

Castle to turn into anthropology museum 

Castle to turn into anthropology museum  – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – The historical castle of Sardar Afshar in Takab county, northwestern West Azarbaijan province is planned to be turned into an anthropology museum, Takab’s Governor has said.  “Takab county has the greatest amount of cultural and historical assets in the province, and to demonstrate this heritage […]

Amelia Earhart mystery finally solved – anthropology professor

READ MORE: India’s first female solo fighter pilot takes to skies in historic training mission Earhart’s plane went missing during her 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the globe. The bones were found by a British expedition on the uninhabited island of Nikumaroro, north of Fiji, in 1940. A forensic analysis of the remains in 1941 originally […]

The Laws of (Thermo) Racial Dynamics: Spiritual Utilitarianism Revisited

But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.” ~ Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1915), chapter 4 It was not coincidence that Engels disliked The Second Law of […]

Encryption Security May Not Be Secure Anymore

Encryption security may not be secure anymore, if a breakthrough being touted as ‘possibly the biggest event in computer science and financial services for 50 years’ is proved correct. The breakthrough by students at the University of Toronto allows huge integer numbers to be factored quicker than previously thought possible, meaning encrypted files can be […]

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