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Anthropology of Conscience
The American Anthropological Association just drafted a statement against the US military’s Human Terrain System project. The HTS hires anthropologists to consult with military ground units to better understand the foreign cultures where they are stationed. So they can dispose of them more efficiently.
While I am being slightly tongue-in-cheek, I agree with the […]
The Dreamers’ Resistance
It’s Columbus Day here in the US, the day the banks and post office close their doors to commemorate Christopher Columbus’s colonial exploits in the New World. As Wikipedia neatly summarizes:
“Columbus directly brought about the demise of many Taino (Arawak) Indians on the island of Hispaniola and the arrival of the Europeans indirectly slew […]
New York Times lucid dreaming article misses the mark
Every couple of years, a major publication venue in the US does a fluff piece on the topic of lucid dreaming. As a dream researcher and an avid lucid dreamer myself, I am usually excited and simultaneously disappointed by these stories. Last week’s New York Times article continues the fine tradition of highlighting […]