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Nyamulagira Volcano and Human Evolution

Category: lost congo memoir

I had mentioned earlier that the volcanoes of the Virugna region in the Western Rift Valley (as well as other highland spots) have often been islands of rain forest separated from each other by different habitats, including grasslands and wooded savannas. this has produced an...

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The Volcano Nyamuragira: Some Context

Category: volcano

Nyamuragira, just now erupting, is one of the numerous Virunga Volcanoes, which form a large cluster of volcanoes spanning the border of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda, between Lake Ex-Edward (a.k.a. Lake Rutenzege) and Lake Kivu. The largest population center is Goma, on Lake Kivu, along...

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Congo Volcano Erupting

Category: lost congo memoir

Mount Nyamulagira, 25km (16 miles) from the eastern city of Goma, erupted at dawn on Saturday, sending lava into the surrounding Virunga National Park. About 40 endangered chimpanzees and other animals live in the area. But the country's famous critically endangered mountain gorillas are said...

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Crocs Afar

Category: lost congo memoir

One day, about six thousand years ago (or more like 15 thousand … the timing of this is disputed) a volcano in the vicinity of Mwea, Uganda blasted a huge volume of stuff into the air, covering the surrounding landscape and choking off most of...

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RIP Franco

Category: lost congo memoir

We knew what you meant, even if the Big Man never did....

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Primitive Cultures are Simple, Civilization is Complex (A falsehood) I

Category: Falsehoods

I'd like to offer a way of thinking about the difference between what we call "civilization" and what some people call "primitive cultures" that will be more useful and less falsehood-prone

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The poor and the dark skinned have more babies than the rich and the light skinned

Category: Falsehoods

Today's falsehood is the assertion that the poor have more babies than the rich, or that the poor just have more babies to begin with. In comparison to ... whatever.

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What a Difference a Century Can Make

Category: Anthropology

The traveler was a college-educated westerner with a late-Victorian attitude about Africans. The idea that all Africans are at least a little subhuman would have been a starting point for him.

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Mail Order Brides and Hypergyny

Category: Anthropology

I've noticed that Scienceblogs.com has been running ads for hot Russian mail order brides. These ads are rather funny ...

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The good book

Category: Missionaries

"So, since Radiocarbon dating has been proved to not work, how do we really know that the earth is billions of years old?"

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