
A Tale of Two Undergrounds
Krystal D'Costa is an anthropologist working in digital media in New York City. You can follow AiP on Facebook.

A Tale of Two Undergrounds

Editor's Selections: City Crowds, Helpful Chimps and Mean Baboons, Sexual Satisfaction, and Large Babies

Smells From the Past: The Fulton Fish Market

When the Lights Go Down in the City
New York City owes a debt of thanks to Thomas Edison for the brilliance that the skyline projects at night. He is the reason that we have the power to be the city that never sleeps. But can our grid sustain our needs today?

What a Tangled Web We Weave

#NYCSciTweetUp Follow-Up

The Culture of Coffee Drinkers
Coffees offer us a way to look at our relationship to the larger world and see that sometimes our choices are not really our own, to think about how brands and larger market forces can help create what appear to be stable icons in our lives.

The Hidden Costs of Food: Food Prints and Healthy Eating

Are We Ashamed of Lunch?

Editor's Selections: Adult Brains, Frozen DNA, Stimulating Speech, and Smelly Knights

Unmasking the Truth in Caricature

Interested in Science? Come to the #NYCSciTweetUp on Aug. 9th

Editor's Selections: Traffic, Wine, and Vikings

Are We Hoarding Connections?

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Will Industrialized Foods Be the End of Us?

The Original Angry Birds?

Editor's Selections: Effects of Quality of Life, Google and Memory, Language, and Bears

Picturing Science: Secrets of the Museum Revealed

Communicating Meaning Online: A Digital Expression of Theory of Mind

Shifting Stigmas: The Act of Crying in Public

Welcome to the New Home of Anthropology in Practice!
The study of human life can happen anywhere—there are opportunities for anthropological observation available all around us, all the time.

Weinergate: Private Records in a Public Age

Hold that door, please! Observations on elevator etiquette