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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/10/" target="_main">October 2007</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="blogMain"> <p> I am astonished at how many "about" pages fail to mention the name of the blogger! So I'll start by mentioning that my name is Greg Laden. I am a blogger and writer and independent scholar who occasionally teaches. I have a very fancy PhD from Harvard (written in Latin and everything) in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, as well as a Masters Degree in the same subjects (also from Harvard). I was awarded a Medical Doctorate from Harvard as well, but that was a clerical error and it was quickly revoked, much to the annoyance of my patients ... </p> <span style="float: left; padding: 5px; width:200px"> <center>Snorking</center> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://www.facebook.com/laden.greg">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/https://plus.google.com/109027288459519863918/posts">Google+</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://twitter.com/#!/gregladen">Twitter</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://www.youtube.com/gregladen">YouTube</a></li> </ul> </span><p>My undergraduate degree in Anthropology is from the Regents College of the University of the State of New York, which is an individualized degree program. My academic advisors were Dean Snow and Bob Paynter, which probably gives you a good idea of what I was into at the time.</p> <p>For some reason the previous paragraphs have enraged a number of readers. Harvard this, Harvard that. Why is the guy telling us he went to Harvard? If you are such a reader, let me speak to you for a moment. Well, the reason I'm telling you this and other things is because YOU clicked on "About" on MY blog. So you get a wordy version of my c.v., and I'm not going to lie on my c.v. just to make you feel better. I assure you that had I known you would be so offended I would have gone to what you might consider to be a lesser school, such as the one you went to. There, do you feel better now? Good. On with the show. </p> <span style="float: right; padding: 5px; width:200px"> <strong>Please visit these other blogs:</strong> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/">The X Blog</a> at Freethoughtblogs.com, where I write about politics and social change and related topic. </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://10000birds.com/">10,000 Birds</a> where I write a monthly post about the evolutionary biology of birds. </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://birdingblogs.com/">Birdingblogs</a> where I have contributed a series of posts on Darwin's Other Birds.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://quichemoraine.com/">Quiche Moraine</a>, which is currently inactive but where I've written some stuff I like.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://gregladen.com/blog/">Evolution ... not just a theory anymore</a> where I started on the blogosphere, still occassionally post stuff, and use as a kind of rarely visited home base. </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://gregladen.com/blog/media/">Media Page</a> where you can see links to some, and in time almost all, of the radio, podcaset, and TV stuff I've done.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://gregladen.com/blog/research/">Research Page</a> where you can download some old papers and stuff I've written.</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://gregladen.com/blog/store/">Links to my online stores</a> where you can buy a Darwin "I Think" Hat, among other things.</li></ul></span><p>I am a biological anthropologist, but for many years before going to graduate school (did I mention that was at Harvard?) to study human evolution, I did archaeology in North America (some of that was done at Harvard). I think of myself as a biologist who focuses on humans (past and present) and who uses archaeology as one of the tools of the trade.</p> <p>Recently, there has been a bit of discssion on the blog about what exactly an anthropologist is. Or, perhaps, what exactly I am. One commenter noted (on a post about geology) that I may not want to blog about geology since I'm an anthropologist, and another was surprised that I said something about working with rocks. Let me clarify. I am not a social or cultural anthropologist (though I've done way more fieldwork with living people than most people who call themselves such). Anthropology in the US includes Archaeology, Biological Anthropology (a.k.a. "Physical Anthropology"), Cultural Anthropology (sometimes called "Social Anthropology") and Linguistics (though these days many academic departments don't do Linguistics, or if they do they call it "Anthropological Linguistics" and it's more of a sub-sub field, part of Cultural Anthropology) and these days there is a crossover discipline called "Palaeoanthropology" which includes bits and pieces of Biological Anthropology and Archaeology with a bit of old time Cultural Anthropology and for many a certain degree of either Physics or Geology, depending. </p> <span style="float: left; padding: 5px; width:200px"> <a id="CongoMemoirs" name="CongoMemoirs"></a> <p><strong>The Congo Memoirs</strong> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/the_zodiac.php">The Zodiac</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/the_big_park.php">The Big Park</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/pirate_island.php">Pirate Island</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/the_crater_and_the_crocodile.php">The Crater and the Crocodile</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/the_story_of_wally_the_waterbu.php">The Story of Wally the Waterbuck</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/zorba_and_the_crew.php">Zorba and The Crew</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/how_to_make_an_elephant_turn_i.php">How to make an elephant turn invisible</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/it_had_to_be_snakes.php">It Had to Be Snakes</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/12/the_lion_that_ate_the_earthwat.php">The Lion That Ate The Earthwatcher</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/peter_and_greg_piss_everybody.php">Peter and Greg Piss Everybody Off</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/biker_and_greg_get_eaten_by_li.php">Biker and Greg get Eaten by Lions</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/fire_on_the_mountain.php">Fire On the Mountain</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/the_greg_layer.php">The Greg Layer</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/kenyatsi_place_of_evil.php">Kenyatsi. Place of evil.</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/a_hippo_runs_over_rudy.php">A Hippo Runs Over Rudy</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/a_day_in_the_life_bathing_with.php">A Day In the Life (Bathing with the Hippos)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/out_of_the_flying_plain_and_in.php">Out of the Flying Plain and Into the Fire (Congo Memoir)</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/the_mountain_giveth_the_mounta.php">The Mountain Giveth, The Mountain Taketh Away</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/if_you_build_it_they_will_fly.php">If You Build It, They Will Fly Away </a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/on_edge.php">On Edge</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/gunfire_at_night.php">Gunfire at Night</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/the_lion_the_tent_and_the_anth.php">The Lion, The Tent, and the Anthropologist</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/return_of_the_green_pickup.php">Return Of The Green Pickup</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/ready_aim_fire.php">Ready ... Aim ... Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/the_crossing.php">The Crossing</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/the_empty_truck.php">The Empty Truck</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/gunfire_in_the_streets.php">Gunfire In The Streets</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/the_storm.php">The Storm</a></li> </ul></span><p>Is that clear? Good. Where I fit in is like this: I'm a Biological Anthropologist who studies Human Behavioral Biology and Human Environment Interaction using, among other things, Archaeology as a tool, but with a strong background in North American Historical Archaeology, North American Prehistoric Archaeology in the Glaciated Zone (and thus with a fair amount of background in glacial geology) and an Africanist. A simple version of which I already said above but apparently these things bear repeating.</p> <p>I had the good fortune of starting my thesis work with Glynn Isaac, and working with the Efe Pygmies in the Ituri Forest, of Zaire. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/the_futility_of_life_learning.php">Glynn tragically died while I was in the field</a> from disease(s) he contracted while working in the field himself, but fortune smiled on me again and Irv DeVore kept me up and running long enough that I gained the distinction of being his last PhD student prior to his retirement.</p> <p>I live in the northern reaches of the greater Twin Cities with my wife, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/08/happy_anniversary_to_we.php">Amanda</a>. Amanda is a high school biology teacher. My daughter, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/fieldwork_and_the_child.php">Julia</a> lives with us half-time. We recently produced a new offspring, named <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/12/huxley_walking_directors_cut.php">Huxley</a>. We spend a fair amount of time in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/notes_from_the_north_country/">Northern Minnesota</a>. </p> <p>My most recent fieldwork has been in South Africa (if you are my Facebook friend you can <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=fl_1402843107805#!/album.php?id=1134172133&aid=7677">see pictures)</a>, and I have many interests there including field survey and the development of what we might call "ecotourism" (but that is too simplistic of a term). With my colleague <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://www.divelocker.co.za/">Lynn Simpson</a>, we run an entity called "Bushrock" which provides customized tours for individuals or small groups. If you are going to South Africa drop me a line, I'll fix you up.</p> <p>I have been involved in the evolution-creationism debate since God was a child (had he actually existed). Being married to a real-life biology teacher has given me a deeper appreciation of this particular battlefield in the culture wars, where simply trying to do a good job teaching science is seen by many as a barrier to their salvation. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/what_to_do_with_bible_thumping.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&utm_medium=rss">More like a holy war than a culture war, isn't it?</a></p> <p>Somewhere on this page there is a link to other blogs I write and my snorking codewords. I've had other web sites before as well, including one at Harvard. Where I went to school (had I mentioned that already? Oh, sorry). </p> <a id="commentpolicy" name="commentpolicy"></a> <a id="nefarious" name="nefarious"></a> <p><strong>Commenting Policy</strong></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/about.php#nefarious"><strong>Warning!!!!</strong></a></p> <p>Starting late in 2009, my blog has increasingly been used by nefarious forces as a staging area for unacceptable garbage. For instance, recently an anonymous commenter posted about ten items on race, each indicating ways in which it was scientifically proven that blacks are inferior to whites, with numerious implications of supporting data but not a single reference, and numerous unfounded conclusions. Also recently, anthropogenic global warming deniers started to use my blog as a link farm, a place to put links pointing to denialists sites, which then gives those sites higher rankings and more Google visibility, etc. </p> <p>And now, Scieneblogs is transforming into more of a family friendly place, given our association with National Geographic. Interestingly, those who post racist or denialist remarks on this blog tend also be profane, obnoxious, and often threatening. And if anybody around here is gonna do that, it's ME, dammit!</p> <p>Given all of these considerations, I'm cracking down. If you want to get rough with your commenting, please feel free to do so. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117105828/http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/">Here</a>. If you get out of line on this site, here, the one you are looking at now, several possible things may happen to you. This may include being moderated henceforth. It may include deletion of your comment. It may include me editing your comment mainly but not exclusively by putting big XXXX's all over it to cover your inappropriate and offensive language. </p> <p>Whatever I decide to do, you most likely won't see it coming.</p> <a id="YourState" name="YourState"></a> <strong>Your Stupid State</strong> <p>Sometimes I'm hard on an entire state. Like Texas. Or, recently, West Virginia. <p>It's funny when the slack jawed yokels who live in these god-forsaken shitholes get annoyed at that. <p>But seriously folks. I'm hard on your state for a reason. I do it for your own good. A state is a democracy. If you have medical care that is second only to a despotic third world war torn failed state, that is because it is what you vote for, what you strive for. If you have a state with a system of education that produces high school graduates who couldn't pass the entry exam to Romper Room and have no chance of going to a good college unless they happen to be one of the athletes you raise up and systematically traffic, then you got that way because that is what you vote for, what you strive for. <p>While you were busy clinging to your guns and your gods and that watery piss you call beer, other states were getting their acts together to have positive growth, clean and stable industry, a clean environment, excellent education, proper infrastructure, humane health care, etc. You know this new health care bill? Actually, a big part of the change that will happen is pulling your stupid-ass nuts out of the fire, because those of us who live in the progressive states fixed half those problems you are living with a long time ago. Yet you are the states that seem to be sending more than your share of testicle dangling tea-baggers to DC to complain about the very progress that is going to keep your 11 fingered offspring from the misery that your created environment imposes on them. <p>OK, maybe I'm overdoing it a bit. <p>But by now I think you get the point. If you are one of these backwards, anti-progressive third world states, I'm trying to do you a favor by humiliating you. I'm trying to bring attention to the fact that you could do better by changing your politicians, and in some cases, throwing off the yoke of one oppressive industry or another. We could just breed a lot more liberals and send them there, like we did to Virgina. Or we could ignore you and wait for some major natural disaster to mostly wipe you out, like happened in Louisiana. Yes, folks, certain things in Louisiana will probably be better after the hurricane than before, simply because people from out of state have gone there to do stuff. I don't know what we can do with a vast and heavily populated state like Texas. Except to keep up the humiliation. <p>If you were not dragging the rest of us down with you, I (and others) would not feel the need to do this. But you are, so we do. Deal. <p>Oh, and do feel free to say humiliating things about my state. Please do. We are the state who elected Tim Pawlenty as governor. We are the state that sent Michel Bachmann to Washington. We are very worthy of humiliation. We don't get enough of it. Please send some our way. <p>And stop whining about stuff I say about your stupid state. 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