Social and Behavioral Sciences

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California's Latino Demographic Takeover Starts In Summer, Says Gov's Office

This is the year Latinos will overtake whites as the largest ethnic group in California. (Pete Wilson is turning in his grave. Wait, he's still alive?!). So says the office of Gov. Jerry Brown in a "Demographic Information" report attached to its new budget plan, released this week. In fact, the ... More >>

No Satisfaction Yet in the Search for Captain Henry Morgan's Satisfaction

See also: *10 Great Artworks at Art Platform Los Angeles Art Fair The Unsinkable Henry Morgan isn't your typical documentary. Following the search for the eponymous Captain Morgan's lost flagship, The Satisfaction, the film reads more like an episode of MTV's Laguna Beach or The Hills than anythin ... More >>

In California, The Children Aren't Our Future, Apparently

California, perhaps more than any other American state, used to epitomize the leading edge of global youth culture, from surfing to skateboarding, mixed-martial-arts fighting to lowriding. If kids were doing it, they were doing it here first. No longer. Maybe. USC researchers looked at the latest ... More >>

Hollywood's Urban Cleansing

12,878 mostly Latinos are pushed out by City Hall, high rents and hipsters

Evening With Dr. Jane Goodall

Why Artists Are Blurring the Line Between Real History and Pretend

Gang Map Study Shows Crime Happens Along Borders Between Sets in L.A.

If you don't like being shot here in the city of L.A., the gang capital of the nation, the places to avoid are the boundaries between gangs (we have a map of some of the crimes after the jump). That seems to be one of the takeaways of a UCLA-led study published online this week in the journal Crimi ... More >>

Study: Popcorn Eaten 2,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

Did cavemen sit around the fire stuffing their hairy faces with popcorn? After analyzing recently unearthed ancient corncobs, researchers say people in what's now Peru were eating popcorn 2,000 years earlier than previously thought -- up to 6,700 years ago, National Geographic reports. Previously, ... More >>

Art With the Dinosaurs

Bone Bungling at Old Cemetery

Native Americans get short shrift as LA Plaza downtown opens under a cloud

UCLA Egypt Professor: Museum Looting, Mummy Beheading Amid Chaos Is 'Huge Loss' for World Heritage

This King Tut statue was smashed by looters​At stake: Human rights. Freedom. Democracy. And a gilded wooden statue of King Tutankhamun. UCLA Professor Willeke Wendrich just got back from an Egyptian archeological dig in December. She says she could detect a "longstanding unhappiness" in lower ... More >>

Digging At LA Plaza, New Mexican American Cultural Center Downtown, Comes To A Stop: Blame Dem Bones

Jennifer JaimesCritics had a bone to pick with LA Plaza.​The 2.22-acre "LA Plaza" downtown is supposed to be "the nation's premier center of Mexican American culture and arts" when it opens in spring. But right now it's the center of a controversy involving ... bones. The remains could belong ... More >>

Cal State Northridge Prof Says His Website Was Not About Thai Sex Tourism, Though It Certainly Appeared To Be

Kenneth Ng's site was not about Thai sex tourism, the prof says.​A Cal State Northridge professor's controversial Thai sex tourism site appeared to be back up recently after he was shamed into taking it down. Economics professor Kenneth Ng last week defended the site as being about "what it r ... More >>

Food Stamp Use Bigger Than Bacon Chocolate

NCReedplayerFood stamps​ Piggy chocolate. House-made pickles. New Nordic Cuisine. Food stamps. No, it's not as sexy as reindeer tartare with a lichen gastrique or a bar of fair-trade dark studded with smoked bacon bits, but the humble food stamp is really catching on. According to a Sept. ... More >>

The Orangutan Angel

Birute Galdikas' quest to save a vanishing habitat

Save the Orangutans 5K Run for Survival

​Do you want to save some orangutans? Do you like to run? Twenty-five bucks buys you a ticket to run in Orangutan Foundation International's upcoming fundraiser Save the Orangutans 5K Run for Survival on September 26. I know it takes a lot for us to get off our asses and do something truly ... More >>

Mission of Niger

Etran Finatawa offer a nomadic blues for modern times

Women in the West

As It Levels Off, Immigration Might Be 'So Last Year' As A Political Issue

​The foreign-born population of Los Angeles County peaked in 2007 and has declined since then as a result of a dragging economy that is no longer a magnet for global job-seekers, according to a report by USC's Population Dynamics Research Group. In fact, statewide, the immigrant population al ... More >>

Secrets of the Silk Road

White Children Now A Minority In California, States Report (UPDATED)

​(UPDATED with Valley stats after the jump). Don't tell the produces of The Hills or any of the other youth-oriented television shows that seem to portray people of color as background noise in California, but for the Golden State's under-18 population whites are now a minority. This accordin ... More >>

Census Kick Starts In Los Angeles; New York Gets Bigger Census Rig

U.S. CensusA trailer in full bloom.​As the 2010 U.S. Census head count kicked off in Los Angeles this week, we were disappointed to learn that New York hosted a bigger traveling rig than what L.A. is getting. First New York claims it sees twice as many international tourists as the City of Ang ... More >>

Billy Corgan Was One Creepy-Ass Child, Psychoanalytic Marketing Stunt Shockingly Reveals

www.CharlesAddams.com​Our brethren at the Village Voice report that over the weekend, as part of the marketing strategy for expensive facsimiles of The Red Book--a recently unveiled illustrated manuscript by cultish psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung--our friend Billy Corgan was "psychoanalyzed" i ... More >>

Markoe! Solo! Markoe! Solo!

Apocalypse Now and Then

“Pompeii and the Roman Villa” at LACMA; Steve Canaday at Parker Jones

Middle-Class Flight From San Fernando Valley

Will taxpayers who are leaving “America's suburb” behind doom L.A.?

Dig In

Fierce People: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

In case you forgot — rich people suck

The Circle Game

Riding the carousel of time with the captives of Michael Apted’s 49 Up

Monkey News

2005 was a big year for primates and the primatologists who study them

Top Dog

Cesar Millan

Absolutely Nothing About St. Patrick's Day

Monkey News

King Kong's Monkey Love

Intimacy on the primate family tree

Human Tracks

Forgotten bones dug up by Gold Line project in Boyle Heights

Beheading on Mount Baldy, Part II

Memory and Manipulation

The trials of Elizabeth Loftus, defender of the wrongly accused

Dr. Norman Tabachnick, Lifesaver

Art Therapy

And its progression from the Holocaust camps to Loyola Marymount and beyond

Creation Science

The gospel according to Steven Pinker

A New Class of Criminal

While You Were Sleeping

Mapping the dreamscape of dream research

The Lady Is a Tramp

The Boy Can’t Help It

Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer’s reductionist theory of rape

WOMEN'S DAY:

A Southland Theater Festival Celebrates Positive Stage Images

Chained Gang

Can the city attorney's injunction stop Pico-Union's 18th Street Gang?

Holy Moses!

DreamWorks spins the Bible

Talking Back to Mom

Re-reading the Feminine Mystique

Dreaming Castaneda

Images of a 20th-century sorcerer