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People think others are larger and stronger if they’re holding a weapon in their hand.
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
How Homo sapiens can wield technology to adapt to the onslaught of climate change, a growing population, and the blitz of hi-tech.
Bought by KREV-LP
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 00:54:02
- Purchases: 1
When Jack Beck and Wendy Welch decided to move to the small mountain town of Big Stone Gap, they hadn’t planned on opening a used bookstore.
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 00:29:01
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 00:23:47
- Purchases: 1
Both humans and chimpanzees can’t resist the urge to yawn when others do.
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 00:01:00
Is autism a disability...or an evolutionary adaptation?
Bought by KUT, KKRN, KUOW, KMUN, Nevada Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 7
From voyages to the bottom of the sea, to the edges of
space: join us on treks of modern exploration.
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Aug 29, 2011
- Length: 00:54:00
- Purchases: 1
Discovering cultural attitudes about race and class--through burial practices.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 20, 2011
- Length: 00:02:12
- Purchases: 1
People once buried their dead in small family plots. Now we can have our ashes turned into diamonds--or shot into space. What do our burial practic...
- Added: Jun 20, 2011
- Length: 00:29:00
Join us for a fascinating discussion with anthropologist Dr. Ellen Basso. She has spent many years living with, studying and writing about the Kala...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Oct 21, 2010
- Length: 00:28:11
- Purchases: 1
In this feature, Anthropologist Dr. Matthew Boyd of Thunder Bay, Ontario talks about his latest research, which uncovered evidence that Native peo...
- Added: Aug 09, 2010
- Length: 00:17:22
Insects and the world we humans share with them is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Our guest is anthropologist Hugh Raffles, the author...
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 00:29:23
- Added: Mar 22, 2010
- Length: 01:57:57
- Purchases: 5
Prof. Helen Fisher discussed the science of love and attraction.
- Added: Feb 11, 2010
- Length: 00:31:02
in which we hear the incredible (and incredibly sad) tale of Minik Wallace, an inuit boy who, at the age of seven, was taken to Manhattan to be stu...
Bought by KCRW, Public Radio Remix, KUT, KFAI, WILL and more
- Added: Dec 11, 2009
- Length: 00:05:53
- Purchases: 6
Prof. Daniel Everett discussed linguistics, the Piraha, and religion in Don't Sleep There are Snakes.
- Added: Dec 09, 2009
- Length: 00:30:19
Prof. Richard Wrangham discussed Catching Fire.
- Added: Jul 14, 2009
- Length: 00:29:49
Hannah Holmes discusses the biology of the well-dressed ape
- Added: Jun 16, 2009
- Length: 00:30:31
Prof. Gregory Cochran discussed how civilization accelerated human evolution.
- Added: Apr 21, 2009
- Length: 00:29:55
