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.
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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.