anthropologist

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How is it possible to spend so much time with your parents and grandparents and not really know them? This question has puzzled me as an anthropologist. It's especially relevant for the holiday season, when millions of people travel to spend time with their families. When my parents were alive, I…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When Courtney Cecale moved into her North Texas house in the summer of 2020, she was in for a heat shock. The plants in her car wilted and died…

A third set of human remains were found in Nevada's Lake Mead on 25 July as water levels have receded to historic lows during a drought fueled by climate change. The remains were spotted by a witness at Swim Beach on Lake Mead during the afternoon of 25 July, the National Park Service announced. Investigators retrieved the remains, the park service said.  They are at least the third set of remains found as the drought-stricken reservoir, which supplies water to 25 million people across the Southwest, has receded to…