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Sunday, July 17, 2005
Week in Review 1(6)
NT Week in Review
Vol. I, Issue 6
This week's list will be pretty bare-bones as I've been away from the computer for a while and don't have many links as a result. Lots of good stuff out there nevertheless:
From the blogs:
In the wake of my obsession with the Guns, Germs, and Steel special on PBS this month, Alun writes about good and bad television documentaries:
Based on my limited experience of talking to a handful of companies I can see two inter-connected issues which could make the difference between a good show and a bad show. One is poor communication between the TV people and the archaeologists - that’s both sides fault. The other is when the TV producer comes in with a fixed idea of exactly what he wants to do even if the archaeologists show that concept is wrong, trivial or irrelevant. When that happens it’s the archaeologist’s fault.
Pharyngula appeals to the great Steven Jay Gould for his opinion on evolutionary psychology.
Pharyngula also gives us one of the most humorous posts of the week, characteristically responding to the "three sins of evolutionists."
Savage Minds writer Tak discusses the globalization of anthropology.
Leiter reports that maybe there is some money in philosophy afterall.
From UTI, a blog I've just started reading, comes an entertaining post about the evolution of whales and "creationist lies":
They are the Whales, the cetaceans, our fellow mammals. And they are magnificent illustrations of megafauna and evolutionary biology alike. If you'd like a short break from the intensity of politics, let us talk of the Whale's Evolutionary Tale and Creationist lies ...
News stories:
PHOENIX -- Archaeologists working at a proposed development site in Mesa say they have unearthed one of the largest integrated canal systems the Hohokam Indians ever built in the Phoenix area.
The pirate Blackbeard's flagship may finally be yielding its identity after nearly 300 years on the ocean floor. Though researchers have yet to find definitive proof, evidence continues to surface off the coast of North Carolina that wreckage there was once the vessel known as Queen Anne's Revenge.
The conviction in Britain of three Angolans for the abuse of a girl they accused of being a witch has turned the spotlight on customs in Angola.
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The Nomadic Thoughts Week in Review Series presents the "best of" from the roughly three dozen anthropology, philosophy, religion, and science news feeds that make up a part of Will's blogroll. It is published every Sunday night/Monday morning.
Posted by Will at July 17, 2005 06:43 PM in