Chip Colwell

@templeton_fdn Please listen in, and learn about all your stuff ... so much stuff!

🎵 You know that we are living in a material world 🎵 and on our new episode of the Templeton Ideas podcast, anthropologist @drchipcolwell explains just why the average human has accumulated so many personal possessions. Tune in tomorrow!

@jason_p_deleon Congrats on your National Book Award!!! So deserving and so wonderful. apnews.com/article/nation…

“When we use racial categories to evaluate, assess, and treat patients differently, we mask the real reasons why medical outcomes vary among racial groups.” Read more: loom.ly/KkABSOw

“Can we move forward to become a society that respects one another’s differences, or will we retreat into a society with entrenched and acrimonious divides?” #FromtheArchive Read more: loom.ly/Djxhmoc

@nicolakimjones The future is now. Great reporting Nicola.

How OpenAI's o1 is being received by scientists... quietly impressed to "awe struck" nature.com/articles/d4158…

The Major League Baseball postseason begins today. Read about bilingualism in baseball: loom.ly/pLMGrSk

If you are an anthropologist and have a story to tell, learn how to write for SAPIENS. sapiens.org/write

@acnzimmer Huge congrats!!

What is the difference between a copy and the real thing? These gate sphinxes at the archaeological site of Hattusa in Türkiye are copies; the originals are displayed inside a nearby museum to protect them from weathering and other hazards. sapiens.org/archaeology/mu…

“Every line of evidence has strengths and limitations. That is why genetics results shouldn’t stand alone, without corroboration from Indigenous histories and archaeological evidence.” Read more: loom.ly/8bn28RQ

Today on #CreatedEqual, anthropologist and former museum curator @drchipcolwell joins @SHDetroit to discuss the complexities of returning stolen remains and belongings of Native American ancestors to their tribes 🪶 Tune in at 101.9 FM, wdet.org/listen-live or the WDET app 🔊

Read the full article: loom.ly/tf161T4

Perhaps my favorite day of the year?

Anthropologist @gideonlasco explores the significance of height—explaining how cultural perceptions influence and distort political dynamics in the U.S. loom.ly/k-Lo-SY

“The lynxes’ comeback is ‘the greatest recovery of a cat species ever achieved through conservation,’ said conservationist Francisco Javier Salcedo Ortiz.” Read more: loom.ly/WUCxrGk

Beginning in 2016, the Turkish government accused anyone with the messaging application ByLock of terrorism. An anthropologist investigates the risks of this kind of digital evidence. loom.ly/tf161T4

A beautiful and insightful season. I learned so much!