As December rolled around, I found myself on Amazon browsing for good gifts. I settled on a large Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for my brother (which looks amazing) and was ready to shut the browser window, when Amazon dangled another model in front of my eyes: an Australopithecus afarensis (e.g. Lucy)… Read more“Pretend-Excavating Australopithecus afarensis, Part 1”
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Anthropomotron 2.1.1 is Out!
My now-yearly update to Anthropomotron should be rolling out on iOS, Android, and this website today! I spent a few weeks here and there getting the app updated for iOS9. While I was staring at the code, I added two new sources of stature estimation formulae from adult limb bone… Read more“Anthropomotron 2.1.1 is Out!”
Skeletal Voltron: An Activity to Teach Introductory Human Osteology
Possibly, Skeletal Voltron was the highlight of my summer class. I had thought of it back when I first heard that I could be teaching physical anthropology back in January, though it did not come to pass until the summer session. Dreaming up a new class activity. Codename: Skeletal Voltron —… Read more“Skeletal Voltron: An Activity to Teach Introductory Human Osteology”
How I’m Spending My Summer Vacation
When I was making Powerpoint presentations for the summer class, I had to put them together in a hurry. For illustrations, I pulled from the Internet, but I did not like many of the ones that I had to use. Since I have a few weeks before the next class… Read more“How I’m Spending My Summer Vacation”
How I Spent My Summer Session
My summer physical anthropology course has ended, so my summer vacation has officially started. I get a few weeks of relatively less work to think about how prior classes turned out and start improving on the next semester’s version. Here are a few quick notes and lessons based on my… Read more“How I Spent My Summer Session”
Summer Nights
I have passed the halfway point of my physical anthropology class, so it is a good time to check in with an update of my experiences! First, hi class! I inadvertently blasted my site’s address on the projector screen when I was demoing Anthropomotron for my forensic anthropology lecture. This… Read more“Summer Nights”
Cultural Anthropology Final Exam: ‘Dee-Now-Ment’
And so the course comes to an end. Getting ready for the final, I greatly underestimated the time I needed to make the final exam. The previous exams went relatively smoothly: the first exam had fewer than fifteen questions and the second was mostly done in an hour and a half… Read more“Cultural Anthropology Final Exam: ‘Dee-Now-Ment’”
Cultural Anthropology Week 15: The Final Countdown
The last lecture wraps the course material back around from globalization and applied anthropology back to the fundamentals of anthropological research. Like a good conclusion, the last lecture should not have any startling new materials, so I created it out of past slides. I took the most eye-catching and discussion-generating… Read more“Cultural Anthropology Week 15: The Final Countdown”
NPR: Will Your Job Be Done By a Machine?
Seems like I’m safe, even though they automated getting a picture of me.
Cultural Anthropology Week 14: Field Trip!
Ever since a student joked that we should go to the San Diego Museum of Man as a class, Week 14 was going to be special. In addition to the trip, the day also marks the end of the poster project that was started after spring break. The plan was… Read more“Cultural Anthropology Week 14: Field Trip!”