When Biology Is Culture

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Sep 02, 2008, 08:58 AM

As readers of this Cat in the Stack blog know, one of my pet peeves is really bad extrapolation from an instance of human behavior to a reductionist biological explanation to evolutionary hoo-ha (I mean, theory).

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How, Exactly, Do You Define 'Youth'?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 30, 2008, 09:12 AM
I'm heading to Tokyo in a few weeks for a pan-Asian Digital Youth culture and thinking a lot about the "youth" part of that topic.
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Why Humanists Read Their Papers

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 01, 2008, 08:19 AM
One question I am asked most frequently by social scientists and scientists is why humanists stand at the podium and read their papers outloud. Good question. Here are my thoughts on that subject.