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Ground-breaking new technique in stem cell science

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Body repair 'could be ramped up'

A combination of drugs could trick the body into sending its repair mechanisms into overdrive, say scientists.

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China alert over bird flu death

Chinese authorities shut down and clean poultry markets in Hebei province, after the first human death in nearly a year.

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First flight of algae-fuelled jet

Continental Airlines is the latest to test fly a jet biofuel, this time with a product derived partially from algae.

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Black holes 'preceded galaxies'

Astronomers believe they have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg question: what came first - black holes or galaxies?

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Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants'

A Zimbabwean wildlife campaigner tells the BBC that soldiers are being given elephant meat to eat, as the economic crisis deepens.

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Canadians claim South Pole record

A trio of Canadians claim a new record for the fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole.

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Our writers talk back

Some of the previous contributors to the Green Room respond to readers' questions and comments.

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Venomous mammal caught on camera

Rare footage of one of the world's most strange and elusive mammals is captured by scientists.

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Poetry or science?

Is romantic love just a chemical cocktail?

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Baby Jupiter's huge weight gain

The planet Jupiter must have gained mass fast during its infancy, according to astronomers.

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Heat may spark world food crisis

Half the world's population could face food crisis by 2100 as soaring temperatures cripple staple crops, scientists warn.

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Holes give edge to new armour

Scientists from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have devised ultra-hard vehicle armour to protect military personnel.

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Mummy of female pharaoh uncovered

Egyptologists find remains of a mummy thought to belong to a queen who ruled 4,300 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief announced.

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Beagle hunter

On a mission to find the most famous ship of science

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Tech fair offers greener vision

Analysts at the Consumer Electronics Show say green credentials of tech products will become critical to success.

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Everest trip helps critically ill

Blood oxygen levels recorded on a trip by medics to Everest could help the treatment of critically ill patients.

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Panda bites his third tourist in two years at Beijing zoo

A panda at Beijing zoo bites a man for the third time in two years.

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Earth Watch

Why it is hard to predict sudden environmental crises

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'Wolfman' returns

Explorer Jim McNeill tracks down Arctic wolves

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Eat it or lose it - why centuries of crop diversity are at risk

Centuries of crop diversity are at risk of being lost forever as farmers turn to just a few modern, high yielding varieties.

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US vows 'huge' marine protection

The US is to establish "the largest area of protected sea in the world", banning fishing and mining, around its Pacific islands.

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Mosquitoes make sweet love music

Sexy songs sung by mosquitoes in courtship could be key to curbing the spread of dengue fever, say scientists.

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Animal matters

Scotland's debate over tests on primates

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A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has mirrors for eyes

A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has eyes which use mirrors as well as lenses, scientists discover.

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Cultural Anthropology:

The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel

Essays in cultural anthropology on the philosophy of Aesthetic Realism.

http://www.perey-anthropology.net/

AnthroCommons

Virtual conference facility for the American Anthropological Association. Offers meeting abstracts, and conference papers.

http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/anthrocommons/

Anthropological Theories

A guide to anthropological theories and approaches prepared by graduate students of the University of Alabama under the direction of Dr. Michael D. Murphy.

http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/anthros.htm

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

www.graand.com

Anthropology, Gender and Masculinity

Bilingual site featuring articles, images, news, and links related to the anthropological study of masculinity and gender.

http://www.artnet.com.br/~marko

Anthropology Page

Book reviews and short essays.

http://geocities.com/gcalla1/anthro.html

Anthropology Resource Base

Resources for indigenous cultures around the world provided by NativeWeb.

http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/anthropology_archeology/

Brand You

An article that describes using anthropological data for advertising commercial products.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_2_32/ai_n6040830

Center for Cross-Cultural Research

Dedicated to fostering and disseminating comparative research. Features news, staff profiles, events and contacts at the Australian National University.

http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/

Circumpolar Ethnographic Field School

Features information and contact details for the project hosted by the University of Northern British Columbia. Summer 2003.

http://anthro.unbc.ca

Critical Theory and Cultural Studies

"Cultural studies draws from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gender studies, feminism, literary criticism, history and psychoanalysis in order to discuss contemporary texts and cultural practices."

http://eserver.org/theory/

Cross-cultural Psychology

A subfield of psychological anthropology concerned with observing human behavior in contrasting cultures.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/g2699/0000/2699000080/print.jhtml

Cross-Culture Theory Test

Features software and data for comparative ethnographic analysis.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/cctest/

Cultural Anthropology

An essay by Thomas Hylland Eriksen that critically examines the metaphors which have underlied anthropological theory and research.

http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Culturalislands.html

Culture and Developmental Subjectivities

An article that describes how anthropologists and historians have attempted to understand and explore the cultural and textual sources of sexual analysis from a holistic perspective.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2267/n2_v65/20964253/print.jhtml

Culture by Commotion Trilogy

Online version of the series of books that include: Plenitude, Transformation, Commotion. The series offers an anthropological account of modern life by Grant McCracken.

http://www.cultureby.com

Cultures Observations Database

Open content project collecting observations made by travelers on behavior in other cultures. Features project description, technical details, and contacts.

http://www.cultures.org/

Game Killing and Killing Games

Heidi Dahles discusses the anthropology of power relations in modern hunting in western society.

http://www.psyeta.org/sa/sa1.2/dahles.html

Growing up Sexually

Encyclopedia features cross-cultural information on sexual behavior development. Offers researchers the opportunity to participate in the project and bibliography.

http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/GUS_AFS.HTM

Hip Hop Barbers

Research into the influence of popular culture on the decoration of barber shops in Arusha, Tanzania by Brad Weiss, of the College of William and Mary. Features photos with brief captions.

http://www.wm.edu/anthropology/faculty/weiss/

Human Universals

Donald Brown discusses those features of culture for which there are no known exceptions to their existence in all ethnographically or historically recorded human societies.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/brown.html

Implosion

Research in architecture on the phenomenology of space of O. F. Bollnow. [in English, French and German].

http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/

Introduction: Everyday Life

An article that discusses how anthropology brings to light many similarities between ancient and modern cultures, particularly in customs surrounding food.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2267/1_66/54668862/print.jhtml

Jon's Anthropology Blog

Collection of articles for students, including lecture materials for cognitive anthropology

http://jon.anywherediary.com

A Journey Through The Culture of Capitalism

Explores capitalism as a cultural phenomenon rather than an economic philosophy.

http://www.westelcom.com/users/bobbieg

Kinship and Social Organization

Hypertext tutorial covering descent, kinship terminology, marriage systems, and residence rules. Includes ethnographic examples.

http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/kintitle.html

Kinship Glossary: Symbols, Term, and Concepts

Definitions of basic terminology and list of common abbreviations.

http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/Faculty/murphy/436/kinship.htm

Opus corpus: Anthropology of the Corporal Appearances

Features articles by St�ephane Malysse on understanding the social and cultural logics made visible by the human body. Requires Flash. In English, French and Portuguese.

http://incubadora.fapesp.br/sites/opuscorpus/

Raising Trust

An article that describes how some forager groups may nurture a sharing sense in their offspring.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1200/1_158/63692736/print.jhtml

Rites of Passage across Cultures

An annotated directory of links and course outline examining the anthropological and psychological elements involved in initiation ceremonies.

http://clla.tamu.edu/passage/lbar181/

Silence, AIDS and Sexual Culture in Africa

An article describing social factors in the AIDS epidemic in Africa.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2872/1_27/71563341/print.jhtml

Slovenian Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology

A portal dedicated to preserving national traditions and promoting research. Offers photos, articles, and fieldwork reports, as well as a calendar of local events.

http://www.benjaminbezek.net/etnologija/ethnology.htm

Social and Cultural Anthropology

An annotated guide to Internet resources from the University of Delaware.

http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/anth/soccult/internet.htm

Social and Cultural Evolution

A directory of links to research papers that discuss general theoretical approaches and models of culture change.

http://www.socio.ch/evo/index_evo.htm

Sound and Society

Paul Roquet's project comparing the acoustic ecology of living places in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Nepal, and Bhutan. Features research proposal, bibliography and guestbook.

http://www.upsaid.com/proquet

Symbolic Anthropology

A site that explores the relationship between symbols and a society's cognitive structure, rules of moral conduct and patterns of social interactions.

http://www.anthja.com/exersymb3.html

Symbolic Power Struggles in Inter-cultural Space

A lecture given by Thomas Hylland Eriksen at the symposium "Culture in the Global Village", Lund, Sweden, 14-16 January, 1993.

http://www.uio.no/~geirthe/Symbolic.html

Theory in Anthropology

Descriptions of various subdisciplines of sociocultural anthropology, reviews of trends in anthropological publications, and biographies of some influential anthropologists.

http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm

The Third Culture

A directory of links and resources for understanding cultural ecology.

http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Ecology/ecoweb.htm

What is Culture?

A tutorial on the nature of culture and the history of the culture concept.

http://www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_culture/culture-index.html

Womanist Epistemology and a New Anthropological Paradigm

African American women's experiences of oppression and marginalization have led them to espouse a religious framework that would give them the regard society has deprived them.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2096/4_48/54064297/print.jhtml

World Food Habits Bibliography

Bibliographies sorted by region and topic prepared by Robert Dirks.

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/