Gender, stereotypes and double standards revealed in cyberspace

Here are three things that crossed my path today on this common theme in the order in which I saw them:

http://www.upworthy.com/watch-a-student-totally-nail-something-about-women-that-ive-been-trying-to-articulate-for-37-years-6?c=reccon1

http://business.time.com/2013/12/10/pantene-powerfully-breaks-down-every-sexist-workplace-stereotype-in-one-ad/?xid=newsletter-weekly

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/05/how-far-we-havent-come-all-of-the-terrible-ways-the-media-treated-women-in-2013-in-one-video/?xid=newsletter-weekly

Food for thought.

What can the evolution of the dog tell us about the human species?

Well, the New York Times reports that scientists analyzing the evolution of the dog can agree on how it happened, but not where.  Why? because population genetics is itself an evolving science, and very often these days fossil data and genetic g=data tell different stories, as do different genetic samples.  We are still sorting the mess out, and studies on the domesticated dog are instructive for telling us how hard it can be to get conclusions for messy data sets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/science/wolf-to-dog-scientists-agree-on-how-but-not-where.html?ref=science

So with THAT in mind, take a look at THIS article about some recent genetic studies of ancient human remains:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/science/at-400000-years-oldest-human-dna-yet-found-raises-new-mysteries.html?src=recg

Demographics: Our Aging Planet

From NPR's Planet Money:

Watch the world's population age over time.



http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/12/09/247385046/the-global-population-boom-and-bust-in-4-gifs

Consumerism in America and the Teen Budget

Interesting juxtaposition of teenage budgets vs. the rest of the ecomony on average.




http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/yes-millennials-are-cheap-and-this-graph-of-the-teenage-budget-explains-why/282123/

Commodity chains and globalization

NPR's Planet Money did an interesting series on T-Shirts, to highlight the interconnections of people and objects found in the global economy known as a "commodity chain."  This is one example of what anthropologists have come to call a "global assemblage"- political, economic, and social links between people across the world that make the notion of a "culture" bounded by geographic and cultural barriers problematic to say the least.

http://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/title

Migration within the USA

Cool interactive chart showing migration trends by region and state.


http://vizynary.com/2013/11/18/restless-america-state-to-state-migration-in-2012/