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  • Dragon Anatomy and Folk Tales: Physicist and Anthropologist Discuss Game of Thrones

    Could folktales be the key to predicting who shall sit on the Iron Throne? If dragons existed, would they be able to fly? And how would they breathe fire? Social anthropologist Daria Vasilyeva and ITMO University postdoc Oleh Ermakov discussed these topics as part of the pop-science talk show “Split by Atoms”, organized by the St. Petersburg Atomic Energy Information Center. CAUTION: this article contains spoilers.

    26.04.2019

  • Biggest Anthropology Breakthroughs of 2018

    Stanislav Drobyshevsky is a Russian anthropologist, science communicator, associate professor at the Biological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University, and a science editor at the Antropogenez.ru portal. Last weekend, he published his take on the most remarkable scientific discoveries of 2018. Read on to learn the details.

    22.01.2019