Paranthropus and the Greatest Whodunit of All Time
Our robust Paranthropus cousins thrived in Africa for a million and a half years, making stone tools and sharing the landscape with different Homo species at the dawn of human cultural innovation
A Scholar’s Quest to Find the Ancestral People of the Most Influential Language on Earth
Who and where were the Proto-Indo-Europeans? Almost 450 languages spoken by 4 billion people descend from their tongue—and J.P. Mallory has been on a life-long journey to reconstruct their world
Between Life and Death: What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Consciousness
Near-death experiences blend science, spirituality, and the unknown, raising profound questions about what it means to be alive, what it means to die, and whether we truly understand either.
Rules vs. Reality: How Competing Views Shape the Way We Use Language
From grammar rules to everyday slang, debates over descriptivism and prescriptivism reveal how we balance authority with the way people really speak.
Why Food and Nutrition Deserves Its Own Public School Curriculum
A national human ecology curriculum that begins with food education could help address our most pressing crises—from climate change to inequality—by teaching students how to live well and care for one another.
Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland
By Lorenzo Hofstetter Author Bio: Lorenzo Hofstetter is an independent researcher and co-creator/COO of the Phersu Atlas database (2022). He holds a degree in archaeology from the University of Florence and collaborates with journals in Italy and Switzerland. In 2023, he curated the exhibition Cacao…
How Decision-Making Is Affected by Social Conformity
By Marjorie Hecht Author Bio: Marjorie Hecht is a longtime magazine editor and writer with a specialty in science topics. She is a freelance writer living on Cape Cod. Credit Line: This article was produced by Human Bridges. The rapid growth of digital…
Can We Exit from a World of Debt?
By Vijay Prashad AUTHOR BIO: Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter. He is an editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He has written…
What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?
Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically modern humans is one of the biggest questions in prehistory today.
How Archaeologists Can Solve the Earth’s ‘Wicked Problems’
By John Schofield Author Bio: John Schofield is a professor of archaeology at the University of York, United Kingdom, and the author of the new book Wicked Problems for Archaeologists: Heritage as Transformative Practice(Oxford University Press, 2024). Credit Line: This article was produced…
