How would you complete this quote?
“Shaped like a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is…”
Four Stone 79
Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology carnival bringing together all things four-field, is now up in its 79th edition over at Anthropology.net. Thanks, Tim, for putting this one together on short notice!
Some really intriguing data and ideas about female choice and sexual strategies among chimps, which are rightly highlighted right at the top.
Good stuff on Ardipithecus, Bluestonehenge, and plenty more.
Enjoy Four Stone Hearth #79.
Second annual Neuroscience Boot Camp wants you!
Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 Neuroscience Boot Camp at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information, head on over to the Boot Camp website.
Kezia Kamentz dropped me an email and shared that last year’s Boot Camp went really well: “great teachers, a small but very diverse group of students, and a varied set of teaching methods.” Kezia said that they would love to have some anthropologists on board, and I know that there’s a few of you out there. Kezia writes:
Through a combination of lectures, break-out groups, panel discussions and laboratory visits, Boot Camp participants will gain an understanding of the methods of neuroscience and key findings on the cognitive and social-emotional functions of the brain, lifespan development and disorders of brain function. Like last year’s faculty, the 2010 Boot Camp faculty consists of leaders in the fields of cognitive and affective neuroscience who are committed to the goal of educating non-neuroscientists.
Wednesday Round Up #88
A busy week – but now you can peruse some economics, war, NY Times mind, anthro, and blogging mind.
Top of the List
Sandra Kiume, Social Neuroscience
Channel N gives us a great video with John Cacioppo speaking on “Connected Minds: Loneliness, Social Brains and the Need for Community.” Sometimes Channel N didn’t load right for me, so you can also go straight to the RSA page with the Cacioppo video.
Ed Yong, Holy Fellatio, Batman! Fruit Bats Use Oral Sex to Prolong Actual Sex
What a title! Just wait until you see the video.
David Dobbs, “YouTube! That’s Why I Became A Writer!”
Very funny video about a writer talking with his agent about how to promote his new book
Dan Sperber, Grieving Animals
An amazing photo of chimpanzees, and a big question about culture among our primate relatives
Economics and Neuroanthropology
Simeleon Sense, Video: Bribing vs. signalling – Marketplace Dept. of Behavioral Economics
Funny video – surviving the cubicle during the downturn, as seen through the eyes of a nature documentary
Sean Mallin, PBR and “Hip” Consumption
Pabst Blue Ribbon flies under the advertising radar, and builds a niche market during the economic downturn
The Uncultured Project
The Uncultured Project is about fighting global poverty, about one man’s decision to try and make the world a better place. It’s a story told through a website and promoted on YouTube.
Imagine leaving behind your friends, family, possessions, and a full scholarship to a good university – all to go halfway around the world to a third world country just to help the poor.
This is exactly what I did.
And I’m using YouTube to tell my story.
Neuroanthropology 