by radiocafe | Apr 22, 2019 | Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health
Our ideas about marriage tend to include assumptions about what is “natural” or “universal”–most of which are not true. Anthropologist Laura Fortunato helps us sort out the diversity of marriage and family traditions throughout the world.
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by radiocafe | Feb 28, 2019 | Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health
Santa Fe Institute scientist Ross Hammond talks about the “snydemic” of climate change, obesity, and undernourishment—and some solutions that address all three at once.
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by radiocafe | Feb 22, 2019 | Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health
Anthropologist and best-selling author Wade Davis talks about the knowledge, practices, and wisdom of non-Western societies, and how they can inspire us and help us to solve some of our most series problems—like climate change.
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by radiocafe | Jan 17, 2019 | New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health
Archaeoastronomy of the last forty years reveals that Native Americans of the Chaco Canyon area were extraordinary astronomers, engineers, and builders–in service of a spirituality. What did it mean, and why did they leave the site? We talk to researcher Anna Sofaer and her colleagues.
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by radiocafe | Jun 22, 2018 | Activism, Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health
Over 2000 children have been taken away from their parents at the US-Mexico border. Hear what a pediatrician and a child development professor have to say about the dangers of this kind of trauma to children and families.
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by radiocafe | May 31, 2018 | New Mexico, Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health
Magma. Lava. Fissures. Eruptions. Tectonic plates. Angry gods. What are volcanoes, and what’s going on at the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii? Charlotte Rowe, vulcanologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, shares her experience as a scientist and witness to live volcanoes.
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by radiocafe | May 4, 2018 | Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health
We’re living in the Anthropocene, the geological era of our own making, in which people dominate the earth, to the detriment — and death — of countless other life forms. Elizabeth Kolbert talks about her book, The Sixth Extinction, and how we are responding (or not) to the crisis we’ve created.
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by radiocafe | Apr 27, 2018 | Politics, Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health
Nafees Hamid talks to terrorists and their families in order to understand who’s vulnerable to radicalization and why … and how nations, institutions, and families can intervene.
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by radiocafe | Jan 23, 2018 | Santa Fe New Mexican, Science & health
Gabriella Coleman is a cultural anthropologist who entered the world of the “hacktivists” who called themselves Anonymous. Her book Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy reads like a spy thriller as it takes us ever deeper into a world to which most of us have no access.
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by radiocafe | Jan 2, 2018 | Down to Earth, Science & health
Christine Jones explains what’s wrong with industrial paradigm of agriculture and how understanding soil can help us grow food that’s healthier — for people, rivers, oceans, climate, local economies, and pretty much everything else.
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