I have re-written my first post six times with six different topics. Ideas and possibilities are streaming in and out of my head. My keyboard is dying, the mouse is in revolt and I have a new camcorder with a record button that needs to be pressed. What am I writing about again? The small quiet inner voice says “Aw hush up and tell them a story.” Once upon a time there was a 1952 comedy/mystery television show called Mr. and Mrs. North. They were the crime fighting team of the upper class set.

In an earth-shattering discovery on par with the understanding that water is wet and the sky is blue, the internet is abuzz with the results of a new study released this week, broken by the NY Times and tantalizingly titled Why Pregnant Women Don't Tip Over.

In late October and again this past week, the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) executive board issued recommendations on whether, or in what contexts, anthropologists should collaborate with or be employed by the U.S. military.