Will U.S. University Students Spread COVID-19?
Universities are planning to open across the United States with strategies based on fantasy documents and magical thinking.
Will U.S. University Students Spread COVID-19?
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Being Clear-Eyed About Citizen Science in the Age of COVID-19
An anthropologist explores the network of citizen monitoring capabilities that developed after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 for what they might teach all of us about such strategies for the covonavirus pandemic.
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The Problem With Abstract Threats
In this episode, anthropologists consider what the novel coronavirus reveals about how humans negotiate crises that seem too big to be real.
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Haitian Deportees Face an Unconscionable Crisis During the Pandemic
For Haitian nationals who are being deported from the U.S. amid the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustices and health inequities run deep, to tragic effect.
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Can Archaeology Explain the Bread Baking Craze?
An archaeological look at the history of cuisine changes illuminates why the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted America’s new bread obsession—and whether it will last.
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How Elders Make Us Human
An anthropologist responds to the suggestion that older people sacrifice themselves for the sake of the economy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.