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How Do We Combat Brain Rot? Heed Thoreau’s Advice to Live More Deliberately
The Oxford Word of 2024 was declared to be ‘brain rot.’ What actionable solutions does a 19th-century hermit offer us to curb this modern social…
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[From the Archives] Arriving Without Traveling
Changing Perceptions of Travel and The Many Reasons We Seek Adventure
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New Eyes for a New Year: Rick Steves and the Power of Transformational Travel
Rick Steves delivers the wisdom behind travel, especially in our fraught modern era. A response to ‘The Interview: Rick Steves Refuses to Get Cynical…
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[From the Archives] The Future in the Present
How Science Fiction Informs Our Sense of Adventure...or Lack Thereof
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Those Who Wander Open Debate #4
Is Being ‘Well-Traveled’ Mostly About Status?
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Dublin and Its Environs: A Walker’s City and the Weight of History
The capital of Ireland, like most old cities, is a palimpsest of history. Walking its streets and the city's outskirts provides one a remarkable…
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[From the Archives] Why Don’t Anthropologists Study Adventure?
A Brief Overview of Adventure in the Social Sciences and Humanities
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[From the Archives] The Role of the Anthropologist in the 21st Century
Aspiring Polymath, Actually Just Neurotic
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Do We Know Who We Are?: The Significance of Anthropology
Studying anthropology, like travel and adventure, opens our minds to a world of eternal complexity and diversity. However, it is a discipline that…
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[From the Archives] Our Ancient Narrative
Excerpt from the Prologue of 'An Anthropology of Wandering'
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The Problem of Short-Cut Learning: Why Extensive Travel and Life-Long Reading Should be Cultivated More in Society
The problem of alternative media is a false promise that dense subjects and information about our world can be swiftly downloaded into our brains…
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What Ancient DNA Reveals About the Deep Past of Human Wandering
On David Reich’s book 'Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past.'
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