Clik here to view.
‘The last free people on the planet’
In small pockets around the world live isolated indigenous communities, groups that, even though they have had run-ins with their neighbours or Westerners, prefer to avoid or resist any further...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Miguel Nicolelis & Beyond Boundaries
Miguel Nicolelis, the neuroscientist who heads Duke’s Center for Neuroengineering, is featured today in an engrossing radio interview with Diane Rehm on how brain plasticity, computational...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mind Reading to Furries: Turning Thought into Action
NPR has a good story this morning, Mind Reading: Technology Turns Thought Into Action. An old technology is providing new insights into the human brain. The technology is called electrocorticography,...
View ArticleSalman Khan talks at Web 2.0
Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy and online, open everything education revolutionary, talks about the reach of his online math and science resources. Thanks to Erin Taylor of the University of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Roid Age: steroids in sport and the paradox of pharmacological puritanism
The following post is based on a lecture I gave in the course, ‘Drugs Across Cultures,’ on steroids and performance-enhancing drugs. A very-beta version of a Prezi is available for the lecture on my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Applied Neuroanthropology: A New Field & A New Issue
“Neuroanthropology and Its Applications,” the summer issue of the journal Annals of Anthropological Practice, is now out. The full issue includes ten articles – a comprehensive introduction, and then...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Debating Addiction and Evolutionary Psychology on Bloggingheads
Robert Wright, the journalist and science writer, was kind enough to invite me over to bloggingheads.tv to discuss research on internet addiction. Neither of us liked a recent paper on “genes for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Connection, Content, Action! – A View on the Internet
I was struck by Alexis Madrigal’s description of how the Internet functions – a human phenomenon, recreated every day, mediated by material machines and generative algorithms. It’s an evocative image,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The cultures endangered by climate change
By Greg Downey The Bull of Winter weakens In 2003, after decades of working with the Viliui Sakha, indigenous horse and cattle breeders in the Vilyuy River region of northeastern Siberia,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Eyeborg: Hearing Colors and Our Cyborg Future
Over on the Neuroanthropology Facebook Interest Group, a member posted this fascinating video about Neil Harbisson and the Cyborg Foundation. Harbisson was born seeing in black-and-white. Working with...
View Article
