Garbage is rich with contradictions. It is both intimate and global, ubiquitous and invisible. We generate trash in vast quantities but few of us know where it goes, or how it gets there, or what happens to it next.

Garbage: Learning to Unsee 

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Brown ash trees sustain the ancestral basket-making traditions of the Wabanaki people of Maine and play a key role... Read more about Video: Protecting the Ash Tree: Wabanaki Diplomacy and Sustainability Science in Maine

Cell phones are among people’s most prized possessions. They play an important role in daily life, facilitating... Read more about Video: Unseen Connections: A Natural History of Cell Phones

Warfare is a nearly universal trait of human societies. It has influenced the evolution of human societies... Read more about Video: Understanding Warfare: An Evolutionary Approach

The ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another has allowed us to create... Read more about Video: The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

What impact are information and communication technologies such as the Internet and social media... Read more about Video: The Future of Happiness: How Communication Technologies Will Change Our World—Or Not

The idea of building a wall on the U.S./Mexico border serves as a potent symbol across the political spectrum... Read more about Video: The Border Wall: Life and Injury on the Frontlines

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The Center for Land Use Interpretation explores how land in the United States is apportioned, utilized,... Read more about Video: The American Land Museum: Places as Cultural Artifacts

Domesticated animals such as dogs, pigs, and horses often sport floppy ears, patches of white hair... Read more about Video: Self-Domestication in Bonobos and Other Wild Animals

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The destruction of iconic images and monuments—iconoclasm—carried out today by extremists... Read more about Video: Destroying Images: Current Iconoclasm in Context

The human body has not changed significantly during recorded history—we share sensory faculties... Read more about Video: Cracking Bones, Gnawing Flesh, and Pondering Hearts: Body, Mind, and Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia