aeon

• are humans destined to evolve into crabs? - michael garfield

american anthropologist

• at the crossroads of human rights and anthropology: toward a critically engaged activist research - shannon speed

american journal of public health

• pathologies of power: rethinking health and human rights - paul farmer

anthropology & medicine

• the unintended consequences of sex education: an ethnography of a development intervention in latin america - nelson et al.

anthropology news

• a call to care - lynnette arnold & felicity aulino

cambridge university press

• australian english pronunciation and transcription - felicity cox & janet fletcher
  • ch.1 - introduction to australian english speech production
• for the love of language: an introduction to linguistics 2e - kate burridge & tonya n. stebbins
  • ch.7 - phonetics

food, culture & society

• producing markets, producing people: local food, financial prosperity and health in samoa - hardin & kwauk

indiana university press

• an ethnography of hunger: politics, subsistence, and the unpredictable grace of the sun - kristin d. phillips
  • introduction: subsistence citizenship

intelligencer

• how kyoto, japan became the world's loveliest tourist-trap - reeves wiedeman

psychology today

• the data says "don't hug the dog!" - stanley coren

routledge

• the spiral road: change in a chinese village through the eyes of a communist party leader - huang shu-min
  • ch.2 - family history

science and word

• why are research papers hard to read? - genevieve r. moore

serious science

• constructed languages - marc van oostendorp

substack

• writing today: the essay, 2010s v 2020 - freddie deboer

tampa bay times

• no, internet, 'science' didn't 'prove' that dogs hate hugs - washington post

the conversation

• 'are you joking, mate?' ai doesn't get sarcasm in non-american varieties of english - aditya joshi
• childcare sexual abuse is mostly committed by men. failing to recognise that puts children at risk - delanie woodlock & lenka olejnikova
• top australian writers urge albanese to abolish job-ready graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing - caitlin macdonald (x)

the cut

• 'more babies and beef tallow, less birth control': seventy-two hours with america's most ambitious young conservative women - e. j. dickson

the new yorker

• did lead poisoning create a generation of serial killers? - gideon lewis-kraus
• mary had schizophrenia - then suddenly she didn’t - rachel aviv
• what happens after a.i. destroys college writing? - hua hsu

unherd

• beware the new eugenics: who decides what humans become? - joel kotkin

vulture

• ice immigration raid videos show two visions of america - katheryn van arendonk