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...While researching at the Medical School, he continues to teach a popular course at the College, Sociology 190: “Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in Social Context.” Christakis’ wife, Erika, who is currently traveling in India, is an anthropologist and elementary school teacher who has spent her professional career advocating for children and families. A graduate of the College, she holds a master’s degree in early childhood education from Lesley University and one in public health from Johns Hopkins. Christakis said he and his family were...
Christakis’ wife is an anthropologist and elementary school teacher who has spent her professional career advocating for children and families. A graduate of the College, she holds a Master’s Degree in early childhood education from Lesley University and one in public health from Johns Hopkins...
...times of upheaval, nothing offers safe harbor like science. That's where Helen Fisher comes in. A biological anthropologist at Rutgers University, she combed through reams of genetic literature and analyzed the answers to 40,000 surveys she conducted on the dating site Chemistry.com for which she is a paid adviser. Her research led her inside the biological mechanisms of mate choice. In Why Him? Why Her?, Fisher posits that there are four broad temperament types--"explorer," "builder," "director" and "negotiator." Each of these types is expressive of a different neurochemical system: dopamine and norepinephrine; serotonin; testosterone; and estrogen. Using...
...Each team is given a mission, resources and a deadline. "Then we let them go and do it," Butler says. Telecom giant Vodafone, which recently bought Ghana Telecom, is using CforC to help it find useful projects in Ghana to get involved in. CforC's team includes an African anthropologist, an academic expert on aid flow in Ghana and a former NGO executive. Says Vodafone chairman John Bond enthusiastically: "CforC works in some extremely difficult parts of the world, and they know what's needed. They're an enormously talented team." There may be a comfort factor too in that...
...woman's body - her back rested against a wall, legs spread and bent inward from the knee - as well as the surrounding ring of tortoise shells piqued the archaeologists' interest. "This kind of assemblage is different from everything you find elsewhere," says Ofer Bar-Yosef, a Harvard anthropologist who has worked on previous Natufian excavations. "It's the sign of a sort of elite emerging among hunter-gatherers...