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• Older and Less Sure: Evidence & its Absence in Opinions

  
  www.oikono.com — Authority: 118
  (Interlaken, Switzerland) When I was younger, I was so much surer that I knew the answer for everything. I took my beliefs for granted. Now, there are many things for which I do not have an opinion as I realized that I have no clear reason to believe things one way or another. I have become an agnostic on most ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) -...

  
  chacal does tumblng — Authority: 131
  Claude Lévi-Strauss Dies at 100 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com A powerful thinker, Mr. Lévi-Strauss was an avatar of “structuralism,” a school of thought in which universal “structures” were believed to underlie all human activity, giving shape to seemingly disparate cultures and creations. His work was a ...
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• French anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss dies aged 100

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Paris, Nov 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The father of modern anthropology Claude Levi-Strauss has died at 100 years. He was widely known for his work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies.His career spanned a huge time of six decades, during which Levi-Strauss authored literary and ...
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• From the Archives: Claude Levi-Strauss

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 146
  French social anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss died over the weekend at the age of 100.  His theory of structuralism was a major influence on such titans of philosophy as Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. Back in 1967, TNRs  Patrick Gallagher reviewed his seminal work The Savage Mind , which sought to ...
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• Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist, dies at 100

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 965
  Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, one of the preeminent social anthropologists of the 20th century, whose erudite, often mind-bendingly labored studies of indigenous Brazilian tribes led to influential theories examining human behavior and culture, died over the weekend in Paris. No cause of death was re...
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• Switzerland Made Me Appreciate Noise

  
  www.oikono.com — Authority: 118
  (Jungfraujoch, Switzerland) My recent trip to Switzerland reminded me how much I miss noise. Sounds give meaning to a city. The odd siren, the rumbling subway, or the pitter patter of footsteps on concrete pavement. They are the city’s heartbeat. And they do not exist in Switzerland, for good reason. Some Swiss ...
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• Of Consultants & Management Gurus

  
  www.oikono.com — Authority: 118
  (Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland) I recently read an Economist article on the “ Three Habits of Highly Irritating Management Gurus .” It’s a great read even coming from the perspective of someone interested in business academia. I agree with the article’s premise: management gurus tend to oversimplify solutions ...
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• Green Scenery

  
  Genuine Cuisine — Authority: 133
  A couple of months before I left Thailand, my eyes were aching a lot and when I looked up and down I felt dizzy and my vision became so blurry so I decided to see an anthropologist. The doctor gave some advised, she said, every time my eyes were aching and felt some dizziness I would not looked at ...
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• Freaky Friday: Ghostly Visions

  
  A Dude's Guide — Authority: 425
  by Richard So, here it is, the day before the greatest holiday ever invented. Halloween. The ghouls and goblins are about to come out, but what I wanted to talk to you about is ghosts. Real ghosts. Or, really, as real as they ever are. More precisely, I’d like to talk about common characteristics shared by people ...
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• Do Markets Destroy Communities?

  
  www.oikono.com — Authority: 118
  (Grindelwad, Switzerland) I don’t know what this has to do with the topic but I just had to put it up I was in Geneva a couple of days ago presenting at a conference organized by the Observatoire de la Finance. The keynote speaker for the conference is Stephen Marglin , the Walter S. Barker Professor of ...
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• Launches & Releases: Anthropologies Art Website

  
  Racked NY — Authority: 695
  Image via the Anthropologist Anthropologie is really on a multimedia roll these days. First, the company that is the retail equivalent of naming your baby "Emma" launched Man Shops Globe, a travel-porn series on the Sundance Channel. Now, theyre taking their deadly-serious-about-whimsy aesthetic online with ...
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• Six Steps To Becoming A Professional Learning Community Coach

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 121
  I have advised those concerned with the performance of Professional Learning Communities to gain fresh insight into how PLCs behave and information about how to drive improvement or fix problems is to play the role of the anthropologist. The Anthropologist is one of the three learning personas from the Tom Kelleys ...
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• French teens pretty old-fashioned in their choice of girls and cuisine

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Oct 24 (ANI): A new survey has revealed that French teenagers prefer traditional home-cooked food and the curves that go with it.No matter what social background they come from, French teenagers still like traditional dishes such as bouillabaisse, fish stew from Provence, choucroute, the Alsatian sauerkraut, ...
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• In the Shadow of the Patriarch

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 759
  All dictators, from Creon onwards, are victims.­ --Gabriel García Márquez I. Many years later , in the course of writing his memoirs, Gabriel García Márquez was to remember that distant afternoon in Aracataca, in Colombia, when his grandfather set a dictionary in his lap and said, "Not only does this book ...
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• Gaza – “Canine Disposal Unit/The Anthroplogist” MP3

  
  Braingell Radio — Authority: 150
  Premiering two new unreleased tracks, GAZA gives the world another small taste of what’s in store on its forthcoming second album, He Is Never Coming Back - in stores November 10 on Black Market Activities . The lethally ripping “Canine Disposal Unit,” paired with instrumental “The Anthropologist,” ...
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• The Game Anthropologist: Heroes of Newerth vs. League of Legends

  
  GameSetWatch — Authority: 674
  [ The Game Anthropologist is Michael Walbridges GameSetWatch-exclusive column about communities built around gaming. This week is about the rise of the unaptly-named MOBA genre and the intense rivalry between two of its titles in beta, Heroes of Newerth and League of Legends.] It is not the first time it has ...
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• Small Business Tangled Idea

  
  Gary A. Scott — Authority: 472
  Here is a tangled small business idea that can untangle complications in your life and career. See how this woman may help make your life better… and you hers. This tangled thought begins with two of the major themes at this site… “turn your passion into profit” and “embrace change”. Yet ...
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• Modern Men Are Friggin Wimps

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 151
  Thats why!!!!! WTF! No I really mean it, WTF! A 20,000 year old Aboriginal could make Usain Bolt eat dirt and a Neanderthal women could whip Arnie Schwarzenegger’s ass in arm-wrestling.Well according to a University of WA professor, it’s true! Anthropologist Peter McAllister claims men today are the weakest ...
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• Ancient aboriginals in Australia may have been faster than a speeding Bolt!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Edinburgh, October 15 (ANI): A leading anthropologist has suggested that ancient aboriginals in Australia would have outrun Usain Bolt, the fastest man alive, while a Neanderthal woman would have crushed Arnold Schwarzenegger in arm-wrestling.According to a report in The Scotsman, Peter McAllister, the author of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Modern Male: ‘Worst’ Man in History

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 600
  Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister states in his new book that ‘modern males are the ‘worst’ men in history.’ When it comes to physical prowess, the modern male just won’t stand up to his Neanderthal counterpart. Blame it on all the chemicals that have surreptitiously crept into modern man’s diet, ...
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