Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.
We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.
What causes autism? As far as we know in 2013, there is no single gene or single environmental factor that accounts for the more than 1 million Americans with ASDs.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.
Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
