A Prehistoric Reminder of the Immense Damage We’ve Done

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Oct 10, 2019 Carbon dioxide levels are higher now than in all human history, and prehistory too: a low-carbon world nurtured our distant forebears. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Homa Hoodfar, Expert on the World’s Muslim Women, Imprisoned in Iran

BLANK Jul 23, 2016 Iran’s Revolutionary Guard detained the dual Canadian-Iranian citizen for allegedly fostering a “soft feminist revolution” and are denying her her rights and even medical treatment.Iran’s Revolutionary Guard detained the Canadian-Iranian dual citizen for allegedly fostering a “soft feminist revolution” and are denying her her rights and even medical treatment. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Crimeless Indian Village Suggests People Can Live Without Even Basic Security Measures

Staff / Truthdig Jun 1, 2016 In remote Shani Shinganapur, homes lack front doors and merchants never lock their shops. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Study Finds Religious Children to Be Meaner Than Secular Children

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 6, 2015 And their parents think they're more empathetic. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Stone Tool Discovery Shows Culture Evolved Much Earlier Than Previously Believed

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 21, 2015 The major discovery in Africa of tools dating around 3.3 million years old has forced scientists to push back the standard dating of the dawn of culture by 700,000 years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Study Shows Gender Equality Prevailed Among Prehistoric People

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 15, 2015 A review of the way gatherer-hunters live in our own time suggests that the gender inequality observed today did not exist for the vast majority of our evolutionary history. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Sociological and Cultural Factors Behind the Paris Attack

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 23, 2015 Anthropologist Scott Atran interviewed would-be and convicted terrorists to learn about the combination of religion, European culture and influence from terrorist organizations that drove the gunmen in the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Preferences for High Masculinity and Femininity May Be Peculiar to Modern Societies

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 7, 2014 A new survey of 12 populations around the world challenges the commonly held assumption that human beings naturally prefer highly masculine men and highly feminine women. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘Our Egalitarian Eden’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 6, 2014 "Hunter-gatherers—and presumably all our ancestors—lived as equals," explains a brief Science magazine survey of the accumulated research into the socioeconomic conditions that prevailed across the vast majority of human existence. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Ann Jones

BLANK Nov 10, 2013 Jones' new book, "They Were Soldiers," was written to give veterans and their families alienated and estranged by war a chance to find their way back to one another. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Author and Academic Comments on Wall Street Protests

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2011 Protesters continued to occupy Manhattan's financial district Monday. "Democracy Now!" has footage of the demonstration and interviews with activists, including a conversation with distinguished anthropologist, author and protest-goer David Graeber. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Welcome Back, da Vinci Edition

Staff / Truthdig Jan 29, 2010 President Obama asked for a better health care plan, so here it is. Native people say "Avatar" is real, so there. But why are they digging up Leonardo da Vinci -- and is there anything left? These stories and more on today's list. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )