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When I studied anthropology in the 1980s as an undergraduate, the evidence for our species living with other Homo human populations began and ended with the Neanderthals. Back then, based on the fossil dating, Neanderthals were seen as an also-ran cold-adapted lumbering species that lived at the same time as our species in Europe.
However, our more advanced and...
Ten years ago, I watched a video of a hostage execution during the Iraq War. What stayed with me wasn’t the violence — it was the calm of the perpetrators. They weren’t frenzied or remorseful. They chanted prayers with focused, almost reverent intensity. They behaved not like criminals but like men who had simply completed their shift.
That image left me with a questio...
Two students are walking down the hallway, in opposite directions, and an administrator looks on. The students are of different races, different genders, and one is crying.
In that moment, the student who feels fine has a choice, cognitively. Do they try to understand why the other student is crying? Or do they chalk up their distress to the fact they are a woman? Whit...
It’s 2:17 a.m. A patient sits in an emergency observation room after telling a physician that they intend to end their life when they leave the hospital. They answer questions coherently, understand the risks of refusing treatment, and calmly insist that they do not want help. Despite this, the psychiatrist places the patient on an involuntary psychiatric hold, preventing the...
Atheism. It is a simple word for many people around the world; it simply means not believing in any creator or deity. That’s it. You can be an atheist with minimal issues in Sweden, China or Japan, but have you tried being an atheist in Algeria, Egypt or Qatar? This is what I want to tell you about in this piece of writing. I want to tell you what it means to be an atheist in...