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Social and Behavioral Sciences

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Census Concerns Continue as Queens Grows

    Last week, the Voice reported on the U.S. Census Bureau's ruling that New York is not as big as Mayor Mike Bloomberg says. The Census claims that the city's population is 8,175,133, but the city's Department of Planning has countered that the population is closer to 8.4 million as of July 2010. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    U.S. Census: New York City is Not as Big as Bloomberg Says it is

    Sorry, Mike! The city is just not as big as you think it is. That's according to the U.S. Census Bureau, anyway, which, in very unsurprising news, has announced that it is not revising its official population count for 2010, despite the city's official challenge of the final number. Every ten yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Scientists Decode the Complete Genome of Extinct Human Race, Bringing Us One Step Closer to Jurassic Park

    The Leipzig team of genetic scientists has announced that it was able to completely decode the genome of an extinct species of humans, the Denisova, using DNA extracted from a single 10-milligram bone fragment of a 50,000-year-old skeleton. The skeleton was found in Southern Siberia in 2010, and cam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Your Personality Smells

    ​According to the latest scientific smell-study, you can actually smell crazy (neurotically crazy, that is) people. You -- and we mean the universal you, not you in particular, don't be neurotic -- can smell the personalities of all sorts of people, from outgoing to anxious to dominant. The st ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 9, 2011

    Deep Hearts

    ​According to the latest scientific smell-study, you can actually smell crazy (neurotically crazy, that is) people. You -- and we mean the universal you, not you in particular, don't be neurotic -- can smell the personalities of all sorts of people, from outgoing to anxious to dominant. The st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2011

    Find Out Where You Fit Into Earth's 7 Billion People

    ​The UN Population Division estimates the world's 7 billionth person will be born tomorrow. How do they know this? The UN says the number is "derived from the annual series of world population estimates obtained by interpolating the results of the 2010 Revision of World Population Prospects by ... More >>

  • Film

    September 14, 2011

    On the Road with Jane Goodall, Planet Saver, in Jane's Journey

    ​The UN Population Division estimates the world's 7 billionth person will be born tomorrow. How do they know this? The UN says the number is "derived from the annual series of world population estimates obtained by interpolating the results of the 2010 Revision of World Population Prospects by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Traces of a 19th-Century Village Have Been Excavated in Central Park

    ​Think about this when you're relaxing in Central Park over the weekend: An entire community once lived there, with homes and several churches and at least one school, right in the park (before it was the park). We're talking about Seneca Village, a largely African-American community of some 2 ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 27, 2011

    Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    ​Think about this when you're relaxing in Central Park over the weekend: An entire community once lived there, with homes and several churches and at least one school, right in the park (before it was the park). We're talking about Seneca Village, a largely African-American community of some 2 ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2011

    Study Abroad, At Home

    For New York archaeology students, a planned semester studying ruins in Egypt turned into a round trip back to Manhattan

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Dixie is So Gay: Surprising Census Info About Gay Parents in the South

    The Times has a great piece today that defies a lot of the common stereotypes of what it means to be gay in America. Since 1990, the Census has been a gold mine of information about LGBT couples for creative demographers. Despite the lack of any question about sexual orientation (hence, no info on s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2011

    Today in Ice Age News: New Woolly Mammoths in the Works, Neanderthals Ugly

    He's back!​The Telegraph has your pressing, timely Ice Age news covered this week. Not only could new woolly mammoths be cloned in four to five years, but new research shows that Neanderthals were not ugly because of the cold, but just because they were ugly.

  • Voice Choices

    September 22, 2010

    THIS SHIP HAS SAILED

    And it still has life more than 200 years later

  • Columns

    April 6, 2010

    White Mexicans, and Other Non-Census

    Question number 9 throws la raza into a tizzy

  • Voice Choices

    November 17, 2009

    The Job, aka The Sound of the Trumpets

    Question number 9 throws la raza into a tizzy

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Billy Corgan Was Psychoanalyzed In Public at the Rubin Museum This Past Weekend

    Nice cape, dude. Photo by Araceli Cruz.​"The first thing that struck me was the boat," said Billy Corgan, onstage Saturday at the Rubin Museum, where he was being psychoanalyzed. In front of him was an image from C. G. Jung's The Red Book. The illustration was of a vessel at sea, with a spear- ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 10, 2009

    'Numero's Eccentric Soul Revue'

    Nice cape, dude. Photo by Araceli Cruz.​"The first thing that struck me was the boat," said Billy Corgan, onstage Saturday at the Rubin Museum, where he was being psychoanalyzed. In front of him was an image from C. G. Jung's The Red Book. The illustration was of a vessel at sea, with a spear- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    "Monkeys in Mourning" Photo Lifts Our Spirits

    ​The New York Post tells us this lovely Monica Szczupide photo shows "more than a dozen grief-stricken chimpanzees joined in an extraordinary expression of mourning as an elder in their family was laid to rest at a West African animal sanctuary." Yes, very touching, circle of life and all that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Harvard Professor Finds That Barbecue Is to Thank for Human Evolution

    TheBusyBrain/flickr​Bloomberg today has a fun interview with Richard Wrangham, a Harvard primatologist whose new book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, posits that it was learning to cook, not tools or agriculture, that sped up human evolution. Cooking, Wrangham explains, made food so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    The Penis-Shaped Minds of Some Wacky Scientists

    Oh brother. Here we go again with the evolutionary psychologists.There's no denying that evolutionary psychology has a sort of hip cache -- the general idea goes that we humans act the way we do because of the way we evolved on the African savanna millions of years ago, even if those inherited behav ... More >>

  • Theater

    April 29, 2009

    Damp Yankees of Artifacts of Consequence

    A flooded civilization's survivors try to plug on

  • Books

    March 11, 2009

    Naughty by Nature: Kat Long's The Forbidden Apple

    Sleaze, please! Vice and virtue duke it out in the big smutty city.

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Dow Suffering from Negative Energy

    "In these times of recession and possible job losses," reads the press release, "a Baylor University researcher and positive psychology expert says above all else, never lose hope and view change as an opportunity." Psychology and neuroscience professor Dr. Michael Frisch lays it all out in his new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2008

    Why the Mormons Hate the Gays

    "In these times of recession and possible job losses," reads the press release, "a Baylor University researcher and positive psychology expert says above all else, never lose hope and view change as an opportunity." Psychology and neuroscience professor Dr. Michael Frisch lays it all out in his new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2008

    Kathie Lee Gifford The Musical

    "In these times of recession and possible job losses," reads the press release, "a Baylor University researcher and positive psychology expert says above all else, never lose hope and view change as an opportunity." Psychology and neuroscience professor Dr. Michael Frisch lays it all out in his new ... More >>

  • Film

    April 1, 2008

    Tuya's Marriage

    More clinical than poetic

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2008

    Cops Seek Man Who Fatally Slashed Upper East Side Shrink

    More clinical than poetic

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2006

    School That Shocks Gets Slapped

    More clinical than poetic

  • Art

    July 25, 2006

    The Intelligencer

    Inside the hypercompetitive world of high-IQ societies

  • Art

    January 3, 2006

    Women and Badness

    Phyllis Chesler: prominent second-wave feminist—and neocon

  • Film

    December 20, 2005

    Jung Love: Vivid Doc Untangles an Affair of Hearts and Minds

    Phyllis Chesler: prominent second-wave feminist—and neocon

  • News

    November 29, 2005

    Lucky King Kong Is Digital

    Activists say all Hollywood apes should be

  • Art

    April 5, 2005

    Head Case

    In theory and practice, psychoanalysis flourishes in academia

  • NYC Life

    August 24, 2004

    The Abominable Snowman

    Plus housing in Warsaw and the thump thump of oral history's heart

  • News

    April 27, 2004

    High Anxiety

    I'm a reasonably happy person—or at least I was before I went into psychotherapy

  • News

    August 5, 2003

    The Whistle-Blower at the Art Party

    A Curator Takes on His Museum

  • Books

    May 13, 2003

    Rumble in the Jungle

    The Strange Case of the Gentle Tasaday

  • News

    December 3, 2002

    Battle of the Wombs

    The Future's Numbers Game

  • News

    September 24, 2002

    Plotzing in New Paltz

    Israel Sparks Fresh Controversy for a SUNY Women’s Studies Conference

  • Books

    April 24, 2001

    Misguided Tour

    Israel Sparks Fresh Controversy for a SUNY Women’s Studies Conference

  • Art

    April 10, 2001

    Tales of the Kefir Furnaceman

    • • • A Roving Ethnographer’s View From the Factory Floor

  • Art

    January 16, 2001

    Dialectical U

    The Post-Seattle Generation Gets Its Marx Druthers

  • News

    December 19, 2000

    Civil Rights Leaders Fear Bush Drags Feet on Flawed Census Data

    Undercounting of African Americans Could Cause Loss of Key Congressional Districts

  • Books

    November 14, 2000

    Honky in the Middle

    Dalton Conley Talks About His Youth in the Projects

  • NYC Life

    April 25, 2000

    Spread ‘Em

    Pro-Choice Is No-Choice on Campus

  • News

    April 4, 2000

    Fossils in the Blood

    Scientists Find Ancient DNA in Living Africans

  • Specials

    November 30, 1999

    Letters

    Scientists Find Ancient DNA in Living Africans

  • Film

    November 9, 1999

    Global Village People

    Scientists Find Ancient DNA in Living Africans

  • News

    October 20, 1998

    Freud vs. Prozac

    The architect of the unconscious faces his greatest challenge

  • News

    August 11, 1998

    Dutch Treat

    After Decades of Controversy, a Brooklyn Farmhouse Is Readied for Restoration

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