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...Kaufmann`s Sociology 153, “Media and the American Mind,” and Prudence Carter`s Sociology 60, “Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.” The former’s pop-cultury material is accessible to anyone who resides outside of a cave and Kaufmann`s opinionated rants, outlandish personality, and penchant for underground hiphop make lectures worth attending. Carter is famous for being a better adviser than she is lecturer, but the class offers an interesting perspective on a difficult problem. Inexplicably (or, perhaps, rather explicably), the number of sociology concentrators...
...shortcut to what we think is right, what job recruiters deem productive, or live at that amazing lab we always aspired to run? Because college is the time for introspection, inquiry, and examination: this is the time to leave the cave. People fall deeper into midlife crises when they fail to find their role in the world. That is precisely what a liberal arts education strives to address. So that your fourth decade won’t find you buying a Porsche but feeling empty inside...
...generations, the inhabitants of the Indonesian island of Flores, located 563 km east of Bali, told stories of a race of little people called the Ebu Gogo: hairy, human-like creatures that hid in the island's limestone caves. Like leprechauns, the Ebu Gogo (the name roughly means "grandmother who eats everything") were assumed by anthropologists to be mythical. That was until a team of Australian and Indonesian researchers excavating a cave on the island uncovered ancient bones that included the 18,000-year-old skeleton of a 1-m-tall female with a brain the size of a grapefruit...
...controversy arises from differing interpretations of a key piece of evidence: a single, almost complete female skull unearthed in the Flores cave. According to the PNAS researchers, the effects of microcephaly are evident in the asymmetric shape of the tiny skull. They claim, too, that the features of the skull cited as evidence that it belonged to a separate species?such as a nearly absent chin?can be found in modern Flores pygmies. The fact that pygmies can still be found living just down the road from the original excavation site helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental...
...good way to gain some traction in what can often be an uncertain year for the “new meat.” (Read: You will take most of your exams still drunk.) Or, if you’re feeling daring or have been living in a cave your whole childhood, take a language that you have never encountered previously—something off the beaten path. Classes in uncommon languages tend to be much smaller and involve a high degree of personal attention with top-notch professors...