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May 13, 2021
How Cellphones Make and Break Human Connections
An ethnographic study of U.S. high schoolers…
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Apr 1, 2021
Why a Mexican Village’s DIY Cellphone Network Matters
When an Indigenous community in Oaxaca, snubbed…
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Mar 30, 2021
What’s Behind Match Day’s Algorithm?
In a yearly ritual, an algorithm pairs medical students with U.S…
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Nov 30, 2020
Can a Robot Guess What You’re Thinking?
Scientists are trying to create artificial intelligence that…
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Nov 24, 2020
Why Do Virtual Meetings Feel So Weird?
Even as online meetings become more common, they can’t always…
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Mar 17, 2020
Spy Plane Photos Open Windows Into Ancient Worlds
In a darkened room of the U.S. National Archives, we…
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Jan 9, 2020
Is Artificial Intelligence Magic?
What does the anthropology of magic reveal about how people create…
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Dec 16, 2019
Your Body as Part Machine
Cyborg-humans can operate prosthetic limbs with their minds. What will…
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Aug 26, 2019
How Geocachers Navigate Fear in the Urban Woods
An anthropologist’s study of a mobile digital game…
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Jan 16, 2019
Watching Ancient Hominins Giving Birth
Using bones and computers to figure out why human birth is so…
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