College of New Caledonia Anthropology

Medical Monday: "Dr. Paul Farmer, professor of medicine at Harvard University, has spent three decades helping poor countries fight devastating diseases from tuberculosis to cholera to Ebola to Zika. As co-founder of Partners in Health, he works to strengthen health-care systems in Haiti (where the group started), Malawi, Rwanda and other low- and middle-income countries, where he's seen what works and what doesn't work when disease strikes. In an interview with NPR, Farmer shared his perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic and the new challenges to be faced in parts of the world where health-care systems already face too many challenges."

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Medical Monday: Check out the World Health Organization's database on COVID research.

Think About It Thursday: "In the paper, the researchers propose that the artifacts were ornamental tablets or plaquettes created by a latter-day Ice Age people called the Magdalenians whose domain extended across Europe"

Think About It Thursday: "The recreational desecration of graves has since stopped, museums have quietly removed the skulls of Coast Salish ancestors from their display cases and ancient burial sites are now strictly protected by provincial law. But while non-Indigenous Victorians may have abandoned their bizarre custom of digging up the dead for fun, the practice reveals an even greater unpleasant secret about the BC capital: This city, perhaps more than any other Canadian settlement, is literally built atop the bones of the region’s first peoples."

Tips Tuesday: Looking for some last minute articles to finish up your assignments? Check out this great open access anthropology journal.