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Today’s post comes from Christopher Heaney, Assistant Professor, Penn State, 2016-2018 Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and WMQ author (October). “Do we really need a ‘Peruvian Atlantic’ … ?” asked Reader B. For the...

* consider this your occasional reminder to vote in the Eisner Awards Hall Of Fame vote, if you're eligible. * J. Caleb Mozzocco on Vengeance Of The Moon Knight Vol. 2. Rob Clough on the comics of Jason Walz. John Kane on a bunch of different comics...

The first time I ever met a celebrity was on a June winter morning in Johannesburg. I was an undergraduate, a student at a paleoanthropology field school in northern South Africa. As part of the summer’s human paleontology curriculum, we attended a...

Nobutaka Aozaki, “Transportation” (2016), digital rendering (courtesy of the artist) This week is filled with openings and events that will get you thinking — about the Citi Bike as readymade, the role of the curator in artwashing, the way you eat and...

Why Neanderthals became a savage “other” in our narrative of human evolution. When anthropologists discover a new set of hominid fossils, the first questions are obvious: What is this creature? Where does it fit in on the evolutionary tree? But it...