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Air Conditioning Makes Strangers Of Us All - Octavia Hansen
Before the days of air conditioning, people would get out of the house to take advantage of any cool breeze or diversion from hot weather. It was particularly popular in the South, to take an evening or early morning constitutional. On weekends, particularly after church when people were still... Submitted 131 days 15 hours ago.

Caution: Small Groups Ahead - Octavia Hansen
Since the dawn of civilization, small groups have been a bad idea. Not all groups are bad. They don't plan to be bad (well, a few of them do, but not many) but most of the time, the outcome is NOT good. They have other names: committee, cartel, club, posse, party, band, but don't let this fool... Submitted 161 days ago.

Petroglyphs. What Do They Really Say? - Octavia Hansen
Across the Southwest United States, in canyons, among the rocks, on a lot of surfaces yet readable after thousands of years, indigenous people left marks labeled by paleontologists and anthropologists as petroglyphs. Some anthropologists think it had to do with the sun and stars, the moon... Submitted 175 days 19 hours ago.

"Knives on their Thighs" - Gaelic Warriors, Land Owners, Regal Roles, Artists and Seers - - Christofer French
Get A New View of Ancient Women And How Modern Women Reflect and Project Old Strengths and Virtues Because most people learn their history from the back end of a sociology class, or from a venomous comment in a political seminar, many people get the world like this: "The Greeks were... Submitted 1 year 113 days ago.

Living the Dream - - Randy Vaughan
It wasn't until I began the exciting, challenging, and rewarding occupation of spending all night driving all over hell and high-water to deliver doughnuts that I was introduced to this phrase: "Living the Dream". I'm certain it's usage it's not limited to those proud men and women known as... Submitted 1 year 215 days ago.

Observations of Life On Planet Earth - Randy Vaughan
Now I have no idea how we got to be on this planet. Seems to me it comes down to Divine Creation, pure happenstance of something-from-nothing and evolving life-forms, genetic experimentation by space travelers from other worlds, maybe dimensions, or any combination of these possibilities. But... Submitted 1 year 235 days ago.

Canine Marxism - Randy Vaughan
And so I'm waiting for the young lady to give me some heartworm pills for one of our dogs. Also standing there is a chap with one of those Alaskan dogs, big dog, the ones with those piercing blue eyes that leave you with the impression that he, the dog, not the man, looks through your soul and... Submitted 1 year 235 days ago.

Assimilation, Sex and Love - From The Neanderthals and Cro Magnons To The Irish - - Christofer French
People Mixing Is History Time.com has reported on a recent genetic project that took immense amounts of work. Researchers compared the Neanderthal genome to the genomes of five living people: one San from southern Africa, one Yoruba from West Africa, one Papua New Guinean, one Han Chinese... Submitted 1 year 279 days ago.

When Nature Goes Awry, Part Two - Joel Hendon
In our part one of this subject, we dealt with the phenomena of conjoined, or "Siamese" twins. But our article, today has a similar but even somewhat more drastic departures from the norm in developing fetuses. There are certain genetic errors which cause weird things in some babies. It seems... Submitted 2 years 328 days ago.

When Nature Goes Awry: Part One - Joel Hendon
The natural laws of physics are such that should produce consistent results and will, until something causes a breach of the rules. It is most astounding and even shocking sometimes to see what can result when a small shift in any given process occurs. Part one of this series deals with... Submitted 3 years 41 days ago.

American Indians and Plants in the Great Basin of North America: An Ancient Relationship - Peter Jones
American Indians and their ancestors have been living and subsisting on the natural plants of the Great Basin for thousands of years. Over time, as American Indians seasonally harvested the natural floral resources, and the resources accordingly responded to this process, a symbiotic relationship... Submitted 4 years 181 days ago.

Deceptive Distinctions and Dissonance: On Connotations of the Term Indigenous - Hasan Shafie
This paper is my personal reflection on the processes by which we are giving form and meaning to the word ‘ indigenous’ or adibashi , and set it in motion to work. The Bangla term upajati (tribal) has recently been replaced by another term adibashi (indigenous) and gained wide acceptance in the... Submitted 5 years 15 days ago.

DESECULARIZATION IN BANGLADESH: Deracinating the Fundamentalists Resurgence - Hasan Shafie
The emergence of radical fundamentalism as a major social movement, across a wide spectrum of countries including Bangladesh, is a great surprise to both theologians and to social scientists. The eminent sociologist of religion Peter Berger observes that the ‘world today, with some exceptions …... Submitted 5 years 15 days ago.

The Gods of Men - Randy Vaughan
Regarding our short time on this planet: We're here. We know that. We simply haven't a clue how we got here. Yes, one can extrapolate this or that from so-called evidence and insist we evolved. Another will examine the same evidence and conclude it proves creation. And still others will... Submitted 1 year 236 days ago.

The Gesture of a Goddess - Satis Shroff
Once upon a time there was a demon named Gurumapa was buried in the grounds of the Tudikhel in Catmandu. The legend also mentions that Gurumapa comes and steals children, much like the Pied Piper of Hameln who wasn't paid the promised sum by the mayor of the town for getting rid of the rats that... Submitted 1 year 324 days ago.

European Ethnology: Saying Goodbye to Winter - - Satis Shroff
European Ethnology: FASNET IN FREIBURG-KAPPEL Narri! Narro! The fasnet has begun and the scary and hideous Schauinsland Berggeister, spirits from the mountains, have stormed the local kindergarten and school. The spirits are motley attired, and spring and prance about, wearing their masks... Submitted 1 year 364 days ago.

Are You Hispanic, Latino, or Other? - - Ian Lawrence Campbell
If I were to ask you to name the closest country to the United States, what would your answer be? Let me help you out a bit. It's not Miami even though many who live in Miami would halfheartedly joke that it was. The various Latin American and Hispanic cultures living, breathing, and working in... Submitted 2 years 39 days ago.

When So Much Changes We Cannot Stay the Same - Michael Gaffley
People of color are often ridiculed because they have to make excuses. I agree that some of the excuses are lame to say the least. However, they can play the race card, the health card, the poverty card, or the overcrowding card. The fact is that some of the excuses are legitimate. Excuses like... Submitted 3 years 8 days ago.

How To Fall In Love With a Thai Bar Girl - Marc Holt
So you have come to Thailand, visited a bunch of bars, and found the girl of your dreams in one of them. She bangs like a dunny (dunny -- Australian slang for 'toilet') door in a hurricane, does everything you ever wished a girl would do for you, and you are "in love". Good for you. Now let's... Submitted 5 years 216 days ago.

2012 - Mayan Astrology Sparks Apocalyptic Mania and New Age Visions - Christofer French
December 2012 has become the most recent date for the "end of the world", "inflection for change", "earthly conflagration" or "peaceful new age cosmic torrent". Why do I pose so many possibilities? Because right now, you can go to the internet, churches, chat rooms, book stores or your local cafe... Submitted 2 years 25 days ago.

Who Was the Mysterious Queen Nefertiti? - Rob Mabry
In 1924, a bust of a beautiful woman was put on display at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. The bust depicts a woman with a long, slender neck and possessed of great beauty. In fact her name, Nefertiti, means the beautiful one has come. Despite her vast beauty and the rise of her legend in modern... Submitted 2 years 209 days ago.

Splitting of Time - 7 Intercalary Months - - Clark Nelson
Seven extra lunar months were the chosen standard practice that matched with the seven-day week. Middle Eastern calendars likely intercalated 7-months as 209-days of l/s separation time. The 360-day length of year was common in very early prehistory. Extending the single l/s calendar year to the... Submitted 3 years 96 days ago.

Preparation for the Ayahuasca Experience - - Howard G Charing
General Information about Ayahuasca After being virtually ignored by Western civilization for centuries, there has been a huge surge of interest in Ayahuasca recently. There is a growing belief that it is a kind of ‘medicine for our times’, giving hope to people with ‘incurable’ diseases like... Submitted 4 years 236 days ago.

Communion With The Infinite - The Visual Music of the Shipibo tribe of the Amazon - - Howard G Charing
The Magical Art of the Shipibo People of the Upper Amazon Underlying the intricate geometric patterns of great complexity displayed in the art of the Shipibo people is a concept of an all pervading magical reality which can challenge the Western linguistic heritage and rational mind. These... Submitted 4 years 262 days ago.

Mermaid Mythology - Origins - Vincent Carlucci
I think that people who are unfamiliar with mermaid stories will be surprised by them. Most probably think that the mermaid is a passive, vulnerable creature like the mermaid in the movie "Splash". Nothing could be further from the truth. These are powerful beings with... Submitted 5 years 87 days ago.