Luke Glowacki

Some closure to the Kenyan mass starvation cult case.
I wish anthros would get interested again in studying unusual forms of social organization and belief. How do you get hundreds of adults to starve themselves and their children?
reuters.com/world/africa/k…

Descartes created some of the first drawings of the earth's magnetic field proposing that tiny particles circulated in through the south pole and out through the north pole.

A year ago quantum computing was the biggest threat to encryption. It seemed almost implausible that in 12 months it would be AI. Yet, here we are.
How A.I. Just Blew Up a Key Tenet of Computer Science nytimes.com/2026/11/06/sci…

When did cumulative cultural evolution begin? This extensive analysis of 3.3 million years of stone tools suggests a rapid increase in complexity around 600,000 years ago. The birth of cumulative culture. pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

"There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross."

Love these lines by Sandburg