Social and Behavioral Sciences

I See Dead Scrolls

Sensitivity Alert: DeSoto Principal Called Racist for Emailing Video of Arby's Dancing Apes

So Kevin Dixon, principal of West Middle School in DeSoto ISD, is apologizing for emailing "a video of dancing chimpanzees to his staff last week that a school board trustee found racist," the Morning News' Matthew Haag writes in today's Metro section. For some reason, the News didn't see fit to emb ... More >>

Science Wins In Evolution Denier's Campaign To Scrub Evolution From Texas Textbooks

​In July we told you about Dr. David Shorrman, author of The Exchange of Truth: Liberating the World From the Lie of Evolution and a member of the state biology panel making recommendations to the Texas Board of Education. Turns out, Shorrman (pictured to the right) was riding in the vanguard ... More >>

Ladies Night, All Month Long

35 Conferette Will Affect Denton's Economic Future, Says Music Geographer Michael Seman

It's actually Michael Seman's job to figure out how indie rock and economic development are intertwined.​Try this out. Let's say we project the future of indie rock out into the future as a straight line disappearing way off over the horizon of time. Everything that's ever going to happen in indie ... More >>

Race to the State's New Census Map

IFRAMES not supportedThe U.S. Census Bureau sent to the state Legislature today the map you see above, along with details about the latest population count intended to assist with redistricting -- including numbers related to racial make-up and voting age.Per the latest tally, since the 2000 Census ... More >>

Where Does Dallas Stand on the Human Development Index? Let's Go to the Report!

American Human Development Project of the Social Science Research CouncilClick to embiggen​Just spent the better part of the morning browsing the The Measure of America 2010-2011: Mapping Risks and Resilience, a report released this morning by the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Social Science Research C ... More >>

Mummies R Us

Look Out: Census Says Everyone's Coming to Dallas (and Fort Worth and Arlington)!

Click to expand the population change map posted by the U.S. Census Bureau today.​The CNN headline, just posted, says it all: "Census Bureau: Dallas posts biggest population gain." That's based on July 1, 2009, population estimates released today, which say that Dallas and Houston gained about 140 ... More >>

Hutchison's Press Secretary on Perry's $9 Billion "Rainy Day" Claim: "It's Hypocrisy at Its Finest and Clearly Politically Motivated."

Sam Merten​As mentioned earlier, Governor Rick Perry gave us the Heisman when we tried to get a response to his boasts this afternoon about balancing the state's budget and tucking away $9 billion for a "rainy day," conveniently leaving out that nearly all of that $9 billion and the dough used ... More >>

But Does He Hate Snakes?

Etruscan Fun

The Meadows honors the ancient peoples

Rockin' Tut

People stand in line to see the boy king

SMU Prof on Team That Begs: Stop Calling Neanderthals "Stupid"

The Ex-Gay Way

Lifestyles of the Rich and Heinous

The wealthy are just another savage tribe in Fierce People

Holy Mother Lode

Fair Park is full of Ancient Treasures

Jesus Junk

Professor scoffs at Lost Tomb of Jesus documentary

PETA Tells Dallas Company to Stop Monkeying Around

Going Bananas

Show Me the Path

Bois and Grrls

Genderqueer: Straight or gay, these kids refuse to play dress-up by the rules

Ankh Around the Clock

At Uptown Players, Elton John's Aida does the crocodile rock on the Nile

Veni, Vidi, Vici Venice

The Venice Biennale offers a slice of art life in the age of globalization

It's Greek to You

Pillsbury's treasure hunt

Lots of Fun

The Ballpark's new recruits are really young

Paradise Lost

Letting the Yanomamö speak for themselves

The Dead Zone

Thanks to TV, crime scene investigating is the new hot profession, but Max Courtney knows it's more science than art

Best Place to Learn About Black Dallas History

African American Museum

Bag o' Bones

An ancient Indian skeleton has local officials trying to pass the buck

Balk Like an Egyptian

Come see the "Pharaoh at the Bat"

The Lost World

Some of the world's greatest discoveries are complete accidents

Going Ape

As Jane Goodall will remind you, chimps don't make good pets

Cowboys and Indians

Charting the not-so-grand endeavors of Frank Reaugh and Edward Sheriff Curtis

Buzz

Paging Mr. Gerry Mander:

Seeker of the Lost Ark

Vendyl Jones says he's a crusading archaeologist searching for long-lost biblical treasures. His critics sya he's more worried about self-promotion than science.

American psycho-babble

From beerhalls to boardrooms, personality tests claim to be a window into the soul. Are they a valid tool, or just psychological window dressing?

Analyze this

From his seat on Oprah, Dallas' Dr. Phil McGraw reigns as the king of quick fixes for troubled relationships. But what about his own?

Honor thy mummy

Digging up the facts behind Egyptian excavations

Romeo's head

A would-be Indiana Jones reopens the debate over who got to America first

Breaking up is hard to do

Headed for divorce court? Act nice, or the judge will send you to psychologist Barry Coakley, Dallas' official referee for bickering couples.

Disturbing personality

An unsolved string of cat mutilations in North Dallas leaves police and residents wondering who could do such a thing

Trash heap of history

A Dallas archaeology buff is forced to the sidelines as the city's past makes way for the new arena

Footprints of Fantasy

Creation scientist Dr. Carl Baugh claims he's found evidence that will explode the 'myth' of evolution. But the biggest myth is Baugh himself.

Dig 'em up, move 'em out

Columbus Realty races to move paupers graves

From Lee Harvey Oswald to Ashley Estell, Dallas pathologist Linda Norton serves as Doctor to the Dead

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Photo finish

Investigator in Ashley Estell case says Plano cops drove him out of department

Neander-Guy

Ray Audette hunts with a hawk and eats like a caveman. He says his meaty diet stopped his hair from falling out, cured his diabetes--and will make you healthy too

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX