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New year, new site banner

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

In honor of my 1-year blogging anniversary, I have changed the site header. The old photo was a picture taken looking out over the Eastern slope of the Tugen Hills region, in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya. I tagged … Continue reading →

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One-year blogiversary

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

A year ago today I went live with the blog, putting up a post titled, “What is wrong with Anthropology,” written in response to Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s calling out of the field: This blog is in some ways my … Continue reading →

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Back to school…

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

…for me and my kids. Lots of back to school stuff keeping me busy at the moment, but will hopefully have a number of posts-in-progress up later in the week.

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Summer travel time…

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

I am going to apologize in advance for potentially light posting and comment moderation for the next several weeks. I will be travelling through Turkey, Georgia and Armenia on work-related activities and may or may not be online much. Should … Continue reading →

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Biological anthropology blogs

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

We are not alone… Christopher Lynn does the heavy lifting in putting together an impressive list of biological anthropology blogs. I haven’t come across a number of these before and will have to check them out and add a few … Continue reading →

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The virtues of academic blogging

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Martin Weller, writing in the Chronicle on, “The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity”: In terms of intellectual fulfillment, creativity, networking, impact, productivity, and overall benefit to my scholarly life, blogging wins hands down. I have written books, produced online … Continue reading →

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Site changes

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

I have made a slight change to the blog’s title. “A.P. Van Arsdale Biological Anthropology Lab was always just a default placeholder till I found something I liked better. I have, at least temporarily, changed it to “The Pleistocene Scene.” … Continue reading →

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Academic blogging from a small place

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Kristina Kilgrove’s comments on blogging that I linked to yesterday reminded me of one of the other reasons I have taken up the craft – interactions with colleagues. Biological anthropologists sometime like to refer to themselves as the lone gorilla … Continue reading →

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Blogging for the public

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

This went over the wires during my writing hiatus of the past two months, but Kristina Kilgrove had a piece at her wonderful blog, Powered by Osteons, on blogging as academic public outreach. Her thoughts are not unlike my own … Continue reading →

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My “wildest dreams”

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

The NY Times has a story this morning on Google’s top secret lab researching high-risk, long-term ideas. Without thinking too much about it, the two areas I would hope we could come up with new technology involve transportation and food. … Continue reading →

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