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more about #newyorker GreyHammer: the new yorker: pretentious BS you PAY US for. more » reddingofish: How much gravel could be carried on an alien space ship? Would they just beam it back to their gravelless planet? It might sound silly to take our g... more » Mathmos: Gravel is obviously just a feint. What do they really want, apart from Mindy? They like zeitgeisty think pieces...maybe if we offer them the io9 staf... more » goldfarb: sometimes I think of The New Yorker as the Ziggy of high-brow publications... more » grumblingcat: Whatever. Jared Diamond has nothing on Napoleon Chagnon in the canon of bad Anthropology. Hell, even Margret Mead was taken for a fool way back when... more » Derek Sabine: I am surprised that after the factual opening sentence that states that Diamond is being sued and there are claims that he lied, that Annalee and 99% ... more » Fall-Apart: I lived in Papua New Guinea briefly in 1999, visiting my parents for three months. My folks have been there since 1997. My mother works in a medical... more » sicboi: Imagine, a new yorker approach to a new yorker problem! Sue! being from the Pacific, the PNG highlanders are storied indeed for their payback violence... more » Justifan: his book is interesting, but its mostly praised because it fits a pc notion that you can't blame cultures for their lack of development which is a bit... more » SpecialK: It's funny how people mix up journalism, anthropology ... and real science. more » Liz Weinbloom: Jared Diamond's anthropology is much more readable and interesting than the vast majority of anthropological writing. This is because he isn't really... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: This is interesting, but not very surprising. In school, all of my anthropology teachers repeatedly insisted that so-called "primitive" hunter-gather... more » TomSkylark: You would think that, considering the rather troubling history of anthropology as a discipline, contemporary anthropologists would see this sort of th... more » Andrew Liptak: It's interesting to read about this, especially as Diamond's works have been described as being particularly Eurocentric. more » Mark 2000: The very fact that these men are suing Diamond rather than hunting him down and killing him for being such an idiot proves their far more "civilized" ... more » corpore-metal: I too wonder how this will affect discussion of ideas in GG&S if doubt is cast on the truth of all of Diamond's anthropological accounts. Personal... more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: See, this is why I don't reed. more » Triplanetary: I wish I could say this surprises me. I've read Guns, Germs, and Steel, and it has some great ideas, but I always found Diamond's anthropology somewha... more » Rasselas: I wonder how this will affect the cottage industry of bloggers who take every single thing that ever happens as proof that the United States and Weste... more » bitgod: Wait...so this guy's name is JARED DIAMOND?? Is his best friend Ronald McDonald? Does he go into Jared's and ask for his diamonds? Don't you hate it... more » -
#afternoonreading
Passive-Aggressive Aliens Want to Steal Your Gravel
In the latest issue of The New Yorker, an alien civilization announces its intentions to visit our planet. But they're not a benevolent race out to share their technology; they're actually quite passive aggressive and have designs on our gravel. More » -
#sciencescandal
Jared Diamond Sued by New Guinea Natives for Crimes of Anthropology
Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, is being sued by two Papua, New Guinea, men who claim the award-winning science writer lied about their lives to prove that tribal culture is violent. More »
