I love that — enhance, enhance, enhance! Only in Hollywood would pictures actually become sharper as you zoom in. My dad is a graphic designer so he taught me how to use Photoshop, Corel, etc. and it also drives me bonkers when they "enhance" photos.

Well, any archaeologist worth their salt also considers themselves to be an anthropologist as well. The best anthropology departments do what they call a four-field approach, which includes sociocultural anthropology (traditional anthro), linguistic anthropology, physical/biological anthropology, and archaeology. So…

Let me guess....is this the University of Tennessee? I hope so—I have William M. Bass' field manual and it is very cool. I use it all the time and is incredible useful in the field when I'm excavating burials.

That would be seriously cool! Unfortunately, if people don't bring up Bones then they inevitably ask me about dinosaurs, and if I've found any lately. Close...at least we use the same tools and dig in the dirt.

A good professor friend of mine is a bioarchaeologist and he absolutely hates "Bones". They get so so many things wrong. I've studied human osteology myself and part of my enjoyment while hate-watching CSI is how much shit they make up about the bones in the human body. THERE IS NO JOINT IN YOUR HEAD, THE METACARPALS…

Just a small point, but there is nothing particularly French about having separate civil and religious wedding ceremonies. That's the way it works in Mexico too. I've known some couples who had their religious ceremony first, and then the civil ceremony much later, or vice versa, mostly because both can be pretty…

My fiancé and I's favorite part: every time they showed the Fake Harry, it would say: "Matt, Not Really Prince Harry".

My favorite part: every time they showed his nm

Yeah! My uncle attacked my dad with a hatchet, thankfully not the blade side, and my dad had enough instinct to be able to defend himself right away and not get hurt anymore than a gash across his arm. Go dad! But seriously. We are a loving, close family. But that doesn't mean we don't have our fuck-ups and our…

Oh my god I forgot the stretching! I swear to god over ten episodes it would be talking and stretching for minutes on end and then two seconds of fighting before they would talk/stretch again. I always thought it was hilarious when they would talk suspended in mid-air, in the process of supposedly going to battle each…

Awesome that finally someone said that. I have a younger brother, and I am fiercely protective of him. To the point where I gathered up a bunch of boys in his grade in elementary school and collectively we beat up his bully (who, funny enough, is his roommate in LA right now. Hey , relationships change). While our…

Or eight episodes. With a lot, a lot, lots and lots, of talking in between the actual fighting. Seriously, 10 mins of talking and then 2 seconds of punching. Still loved DZ though.

Dogs really do know. And you know that you have a special cat when they can pick up those signals too. My kitty Gizmo sticks by my or my fiancé's side whenever we are not feeling well (this is in Mexico). My fiancé will sometimes have gastric attacks and he'll be lying upstairs in bed miserable, and she'll just go…

Yes, finally! Midnight in Paris is amazing. I don't know why it got lumped in as a bad shitty male movie - I would love to be able to travel back to the glory days of artistic Paris in a 20s car and hang out with Man Ray, Gertrude Stein, Josephine Baker, and Salvador Dali. Are you kidding me? Plus the existentialism…

My mother's side is like that. We say Dutch-Indonesian, which would imply half-and-half, but this really only holds true for her father. My opa's mother was Indonesian, and his father was Dutch, straight-up. But my oma, oh jeez. Starts off in the late 1600s and goes back and forth from there, with full-blood Dutch and…

Which isn't necessarily the wrong thing to conclude. If we did DNA testing on a lot of white people whose ancestry dates prior to the 20th century immigration movements, more like 17th-18th centuries, we'd probably find a lot of African and Native American ancestry in their blood. From a relevant Wikipedia article:

Thanks for the geography lesson. Interesting that the article you cite was heavy on geography, geology, flora and fauna, but light on the anthropology/cultural history of the region.

Actually, as I said in an earlier comment, what it could be is that they are using it as a catch-all term to describe people whose ancestry is so mixed that it is difficult to pinpoint to one major category. For example a lot of the counties marked "American" are in the Appalachians, where many people are mixed…

I would assume that they are using it as a catch-all term to describe people whose ancestry is so mixed that it is difficult to pinpoint to one major category. For example a lot of the counties marked "American" are in the Appalachians, where many people are mixed American-Indian/European/African going back…