In this article: Barack Obama Sr., Beijing, Barack Obama, China, White House, Asia, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Kansas

...to appear include everyone from Dr. Ruth Westheimer, to Xaviera "The Happy Hooker" Hollander , writer Gay Talese , anthropologist Helen Fisher , porn legend Vanessa del Rio , fashion designer Alan Flusser , cigar aficionado Aaron Sigmond ,...

In this article: Playboy Radio, Playboy, Playboy.com, Sirius XM, and Helen Fisher

...evidence of Mexico 's brutal campaign to eliminate the tribe. As if the horror of the massacre weren't enough, U.S. anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka came upon some of the bodies while they were still decaying, hacked off the heads with a...

In this article: Ales Hrdlicka, Arizona, Sonora, New York, Mexico, North America, and Tucson

...Case as Crissy , Kacie Sheik as Jeanie , Bryce Ryness as Woof, Darius Nichols as Hud , Megan Lawrence as Mother and Andrew Kober as Margaret Mead /Dad. Tribe members include Steel Burkhardt , Brianna Carlson , Lauren Elder , Allison Guinn ,...

In this article: Hair, Broadway, London, Karole Armitage, New York, Michael McDonald, and Will Swenson

Ad Age asks, "Does the Industry Need Big Digital Agencies Anymore?" I don't believe it's a rhetorical question. Anthropologist Margaret Mead said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;...

In this article: Ad Age, Anthropologist, Agency.com, AKQA, Facebook, and Margaret Mead

How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued From the Brink By Jane Goodall with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson Two hundred years ago, as Jane Goodall and her co-authors remind us in this survey of efforts to save endangered species , golden...

In this article: Jane Goodall, Extinction, Diclofenac, Endangered species, Culprit, Chimpanzee, Cattle, and Black Robin

When a language disappears, do we lose a piece of humanity? Near the end of her life, the anthropologist Margaret Mead used to fret that the planet was drifting toward a kind of homogenized world. The glorious diversity of humankind,...

In this article: University of Toronto, John McWhorter, Italy, Toronto, Bread, Climate change, Global warming, and World War II

...lot like feeling high on cocaine. And when you've just had a bad breakup, it might seem as if you're going through withdrawal symptoms. Helen Fisher , a nationally acclaimed biological anthropologist and research professor at Rutgers...

In this article: Dopamine, Cocaine, Helen Fisher, Sioux City, Iowa, and Rutgers University

...World on the Wane," follows Mr. Levi-Strauss 's travels through Brazil in the 1930s. It was praised by eminent American anthropologist Clifford Geertz as "surely one of the finest books ever written by an anthropologist." "Tristes" and...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, Roman Jakobson, Philippe Descola, Tristes Tropiques, Paris, and World War II

...and philosophical than other anthropologists -- and for this level of removal from his informants' way of life, he was criticized by Clifford Geertz , who also helped shape modern anthropological theory. Still, Levi-Strauss remains...

In this article: Claude Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, Marshall Sahlins, Philosophy, Tanya Luhrmann, U.S., Brazil, and E mail

...Library. </p><p><strong>“GORILLAS IN THE MIST”</strong> Sigourney Weaver got an Oscar nom for portraying gorilla advocate Dian Fossey. 6 p.m. Monday, Linda Hall Library. </p><p><strong>“M*A*S*H”</strong> Robert Altman...

In this article: Oscar, Dian Fossey, Jack Skellington, Sigourney Weaver, Laurel & Hardy, Johnny Depp, Tor Johnson, and Robert Altman

...Richard McGuire, but rescinded the offer after it was reported that he had been convicted in absentia in Rwanda of the 1985 murder of Dian Fossey , whose research was the subject of the movie ' Gorillas in the Mist.' Preclik arrived in...

In this article: Interpol, Google search, Google, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Nebraska, and U.S.

...the offer after The Associated Press reported that he had been convicted in absentia in Rwanda of the 1985 murder of Dian Fossey, whose research was the subject of the movie " Gorillas in the Mist." </p><p>Preclik (pronounced PRESS'-lik)...

In this article: Interpol, Nebraska, Dian Fossey, Google, and Czech Republic

...in trying to help them communicate better, "Don't be such a scientist!" From Don't Be Such A Scientist by Randy Olson. Copyright 2009 Randy Olson. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. More information at...

In this article: Hollywood, Randy Olson, University of New Hampshire, Washington, Phobia, Leopard Seal, Hyena, University of Southern California, Venom, and Richard Gere

...skeleton that is 1.2 million years older than the celebrated Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) and by far the oldest one ever found. Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley , a co-leader of the Middle Awash research team that...

In this article: Tim White, Chimpanzee, University of California, Berkeley, Penn State, and Kent State University

...3.2 million-year-old early human ancestor found in Ethiopia in 1974 by then-anthropology curator and CWRU anthropology professor Donald Johanson. At the time, Lucy was the oldest hominid yet discovered. But Chicago , not Cleveland , might...

In this article: Tim White, Donald Johanson, Cleveland, and Case Western Reserve University

...Gorilla © G. Nienaber Personally, I think Atwood got it right by bestowing sainthood on Dian Fossey. Fossey wrote often to friends and family that she believed her African staff to be "the backbone" of her research station at Karisoke,...

In this article: Dian Fossey, Margaret Atwood, Farley Mowat, Congo, Africa, Mountain Gorilla, McMaster University, and Louis Leakey

...don't 'get it'. Into this void has stepped Randy Olsen with his new book "Don't be such a scientist". For those who don't know Randy, he 's a rather extraordinary individual - one of the few individuals who has run the gamut from hard-core...

In this article: Randy Olsen, Greg Craven, Climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, Dog, YouTube, and Google