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A Girl Called Problem
Katie Quirk’s first book, “A Girl Called Problem” is now getting national reviews! The story is set in early independence Tanzania, and involves a young heroine in a mystery that deeply entwines her family with the fate of her village. … Continue reading
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UMaine Hiring: Assistant Professor of Anthropology
From jobs.maine.edu: Assistant Professor of Anthropology January 24th, 2013The Department of Anthropology at the University of Maine seeks an academic-year tenure-track Assistant Professor of Anthropology to begin September, 2013. The successful candidate will help initiate two new programs: a PhD … Continue reading
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Hiring Experimenter for UMaine Experimental economics research
The Experimental Economics Laboratory at UMaine is hiring undergraduate experimenters to help launch the experimental economics program, test ans set up the software and hardware, and work with Dr. Waring and graduate students to conduct the first experiments in the … Continue reading
Zotero: the last, best ref manager!
With Connotea closing, Mendeley gobbled up by Elsevier, it seems that Zotero may be the last, best, free (as in freedom) reference manager. Many people have noted that Mendeley’s business model may well have been to be bought up by … Continue reading
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Human (Genetic) Evolution
A recent large-scale project on human genetic evolution has found, not surprisingly, that most human genetic variation is recent (last 200 generations). This is not surprising because we spread over the globe in the last 200 generations. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11690.html The article … Continue reading
ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory 