“Jungle,” the new adventure/survival film from Australian helmer Greg McClean (“Wolf Creek”), is based on the true-life story of adventurer and executive producer Yossi Ghinsberg, who became lost in the Amazonian jungle for three weeks in 1981. Read More...
Updated Some popular holiday traditions have dark origins, or once looked much different than they are now. In the 1700s, carolers would sometimes break down doors and demand food and drink from residents. And although "The Nutcracker" is a beautiful ballet, it's actually based on a pretty creepy story. Good King Wenceslas was a real person who was stabbed and dismembered. An illustration of the fictional King Wenceslas. Public Domain " Read More...
An Interview with Anthropologist Wade Davis NPR's Alex Chadwick: How long have you been working on the ethnosphere project as an idea? Wade Davis: I coined the term ethnosphere in a recent book, Light at the Edge of the World. The thought was to come up with a concept that would suggest to people that just as there is a biosphere, a biological web of life, so too there is a cultural fabric that envelops the Earth, a cultural web of life. Read More...