Monthly Archives: April 2013

Resources related to R

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

As long as I am passing along references, here is a link to a post by W. Andrew Barr, PhD candidate at Texas, aggregating resources related to learning and using R. Being able to code is extraordinarily valuable. R is … Continue reading →

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Skeletal collections database

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

Some time ago I began slowly collecting information relating to known anthropological skeletal collections. The task quickly fell beneath more pressing obligations, but I am happy to see that someone else has had much more success. Highfantastical.com has a really … Continue reading →

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One of the advantages of data openness

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

People can tell you if you messed up prior to becoming associated with a widely cited, but ultimately wrong analysis. The current example is the much-discussed case of the Reinhart/Rogoff economics paper about the alleged dangers of high public debt … Continue reading →

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Genomics: Knowledge is a constraint on knowledge

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

On Monday, the Supreme Court spent approximately an hour hearing oral arguments in the Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. case. This is a case with potentially landmark potential. At stake is the question of whether genes are … Continue reading →

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Dialogue within anthropology? Try coming to the AAAs (Chicago, 2013)

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

I will be posting a number of items relating to the symposium I participated in last week at the AAPA meetings in Knoxville, TN. The symposium was aimed at identifying the future direction of biological anthropology as a field. One … Continue reading →

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The most important research presented at the AAPA meetings

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

And the most depressing. So then we looked at the rate at which women and men experience sexual harassment and assault. 59% of our sample reported it, with women having a three times greater risk than men. 19% of our … Continue reading →

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Talking about data access at the 2013 AAPAs

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

This week is the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), in Knoxville, Tennessee. My visit to this year’s meetings is going to be an abbreviated one, owing to the realities of leaving a 3-week old at … Continue reading →

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Meeting season

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

Spring conference season is underway, beginning with the Paleoanthropology Society meetings which are going on right now, concurrently with the Society for American Archaeology (SAAs) meetings, in beautiful Hawaii. Kate Wong (@katewong) is tweeting the meetings, using the hashtag #paleo13. … Continue reading →

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Ten fingers, ten toes

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Adam Van Arsdale

One of the reasons I love teaching anthropology is that it is so easy to draw a direct connection between what we are studying the the real life experiences of my students. The actions of evolution are ubiquitous in the … Continue reading →

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