How Rats Are Overturning Decades of Military Norms
An anthropologist explores how the use of rats to clear ordnance in Cambodia is changing the culture of mine clearance.
How Rats Are Overturning Decades of Military Norms
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In a SAPIENS contest-winning poem by a Kashmiri anthropologist, the threats posed by crossing the Line of Control, a highly militarized de facto border, are faced down by a lover of freedom.
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Holocaust Archaeology Proves Deniers Wrong
To counter ignorance and indifference about the Holocaust, scientists expand evidence of the mass murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies.
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Spy Plane Photos Open Windows Into Ancient Worlds
Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past.
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Why Targeting Heritage Is a Crime Against Humanity
Trump’s threats to Iran’s cultural treasures are the latest in a long history of such tactics. Thousands of artistic and architectural marvels have been destroyed in wars—a travesty that must be stopped.
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“Warspeak” Puts All of Us in the Trenches
From campaign "war rooms" to "battleground states," the political lexicon in the U.S. distorts people's experiences of others and of communal life.