I don't want to sound too dismissive here, but I DON'T think goodness is a super hard question. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But as an anthropologist, I also recognize that the concept of goodness, just like pretty much everything else humans believe in, is a social construct. And if you are…

That dog does not look healthy. Three months? Poor baby.

Yeah, I don't have epilepsy or anything, but that thing hurts my brain. As much as I love Biden and malarkey... no.

This does seem to be the best explanation. My own brain is trying to freak me out.

I didn't have anything definitively strange like that happen to me when I was at Dachau. Though when we went through the gas chambers (which I don't think were even operational at that camp?), I got this horrible feeling of dread and grief. Of course I'd been emotional for the whole day, but this was like 10x worse.…

I see crazy shit quite often, almost always when waking from a deep sleep. I'm not paralyzed, I can (and do) blink and get up and move around and the things I see won't vanish for several very long seconds. Though I have no idea what I'm seeing, and since I'm an avowed skeptic I choose to believe that they are the…

I've introduced this topic in the class I teach about Cultural Diversity. Student opinions are mixed - most think this is a (backfiring) marketing ploy, a few are excited to see an increase in diversity. I think it's kind of cool that they are drawing on inspiration from different cultures, but unless this is set in…

Well, everyone has body fat. It's not just a fold of skin (which is kind of creepy)... even if body fat percentage is very low, it's still there.

This same thing happened to me - group of popular boys called me to tell me that this particular popular boy had a crush on me. Har de har, because no one would ever be attracted to me! Hilarious! Fifteen years later and that shit still stings. Is there some kind of an asshole handbook where they learn this stuff?

Ok - but it happens all the time. I also know someone who didn't know until she showed up at the hospital with stomach pains. As crazy as it seems!

Stand back! I'm an anthropologist! And yes, you're right on the whole. In fact, in most H/G societies women actually provide the majority of the calories through gathering (and do a small bit of hunting for smaller, less dangerous prey). The hunting contribution is really important too, but responsible for less of the…

My god, I think I love you.

Recently on a flight the attendant tried to get me to turn off the ad that shows automatically on my kindle, which I have no control over and which can't get turned off. She didn't believe me when I told her that it was as off as I could make it. Why are they so crazy about this stuff when it seems like it doesn't…

Yup, this is exactly what I thought. This is what I could have done at 22 IF I WAS A CELEBRITY ON A POPULAR TV SHOW. Colfer may be really, really talented - I guess we'll see - but I'm gonna go way out on a limb and guess that if he wasn't famous, he wouldn't be published. I wish him all the luck in the world, but…