Social and Behavioral Sciences

Houston Wins Census Challenge, Increases Official Population Total by a Whopping 812

On any given Sunday during football season, there are 70,000 people sitting in the stands watching the game. Imagine just over one percent of those people, probably the number of combined fans standing in the beer and bathroom lines at halftime at one corner of the upper level, and you just imagined ... More >>

Cover Story: Is Biomedical Testing on Primates Still Necessary?

On October 24, scientists from around the world will come to San Antonio to discuss how testing on monkeys might one day lead to an AIDS cure. They'll be talking baboons, macaques, and vervets at the 30th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS, not chimpanzees. Once thought to be the ... More >>

9th Annual Media Archeology Festival, Media Archeology 2012: Real Time

"Egyptomania"

Tut, Tut

There are some fascinating objects in this wannabe blockbuster, but mainly it's a grab for crowds and cash.

“Ancient Ukraine — Golden Treasures and Lost Civilizations”

Art from the Arctic

The Menil Collection presents ancient objects in a spectacular all-white display.

“Ancestors of the Lake”

Census: Texas Is a Whole Lot More Hispanic

Hola, Tejas​The AP has gotten a preview of the census data to be released later today about Texas, and it shows what most everyone knows: The state has gotten more Hispanic. Data shows 38 percent of the 25.1 million people residing in Texas are Hispanic, 45 percent are Anglo and 11.5 percent ... More >>

Teen Birth Rate Hits Lowest Point In 70 Years

Less chance these days his mom's a teenager​See what happens when you get rid of abstinence-only sex education? The birth rate for teen mothers is at its lowest point since 1940, when records were first kept, a federal study released today says. The report from the National Center for Healt ... More >>

Richard Leakey: Why Our Origins Matter

Mixers & Elixirs 2010

Everybody do the Dinosaur Dance

Silence of the Lambs

Up the mountain one last time with Sweetgrass. Anthropomorphized sheep need not apply.

SPECIAL CENSUS EDITION

Gettin' Kinda Crowded -- Texas Grows More Than Any Other State In Past Year

​Further proof that we're not being hit as hard in the Great Recession as some -- Texas added more residents in the past 12 months than any state in the union, the Census Bureau reported today.Texas added 478,000 residents in the previous 12 months, beating out California, which added almost 100,0 ... More >>

Smaller Than Life: The Lure and Lore of Amazonian Shrunken Heads

Admit it, you want to look

Cosmic Celluloid: 2001: A Space Odyssey

One small step for computer-kind, one hell of a mess for man

Aaron Elkins

Web exclusive

“Terra Cotta Warriors”

Ashes to ashes, dust to clay

Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes," "Literally Figurative," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure"

Bystander Hit During A Police Shooting: Pretty Rare, Expert Says

Photo by dizfunkshinal Tuesday's Metro Police shooting was not just unusual in that it was the first fatal shooting in the agency's history, but in that a bystander was injured as well. While we wait for more details to emerge from HPD, which is leading the investigation, Hair Balls checked in with ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul," "Helen Lessick: Other Arrangements," "Henrique Oliveira: Tapumes," "Literally Figurative," "Perspectives 165: Contents Under Pressure"

Guys With Metal Detectors: Heroes Or Pillagers? And, Um, Should We Care?

Photo by brainware3000Robbie Morin of Houston is a man with a cause.A cause that maybe not so many people care about, but that doesn't matter to him.Morin wants the world to know that people who use those dish-on-a-stick metal detectors, looking for coins and other treasure on beaches and in parks, ... More >>

Get Lit: Kathy Reichs

EVERGREEN Rice Professor book on Polarization of American electorate

Love, Actually

The CAMH honors a Houston assembler

Diggin' on Digital

Bois and Grrls

Genderqueer: Straight or gay, these kids refuse to play dress-up by the rules

Dream Doctor

Weird, ghostly figures and the occasional stallion haunt Michele Dugan's "OverSoul Collection"

Jurassic Live

Globe-trotting beats archivist Diplo spins into town

Hitting the Bricks

Preservationists try to keep the pavers from a Fourth Ward legacy -- brick streets

Chocolove

The Houston Museum of Natural Science delves into the candy of love on Valentine's Day

Mini-Investigators

Court TV gives kids a lesson in solving crimes

Analyze This

The Art of War

The MFAH presents "Afghanistan: A Timeless History." What's next -- "Iraqis Are People Too"?

Reel Life

Duncan Ganley can't seem to tell the difference between fact and fiction

Hot Springtime for Sheridan

UH faculty discontent targets the controversial provost

Raw Roots

Excavations for plantation artifacts - and the real truth - are unraveling the genteel gloss covering Texans' old notions about the slave era here

Rejected

Thousands of inmates rely annually on a capricious parole board for their freedom. Most, like George Dismukes, return to their cells without ever knowing why they were denied.

The Great EscApe

In two decades, Wally Swett's sanctuary has become a place of peace for primates - it's the humans that have him going bananas

Tackling the Taboo

Despite suicides and inner strife, Asian-Americans resist psychotherapy

Accidental Sexologist

When he was young, William Simon wanted to change the world. The late University of Houston sociology professor changed the way we view sex instead.

Gold Russian

Kremlin Gold

Power Points

A stint in the human jungle pushes Instinct over the edge

Down For The Count

A test census survey stirs up questions on privacy

Virgin Rebirth

The statue doesn't look like a traditional Our Lady of Guadalupe. But its appearance is just the start of the

Punches, Passion in Tenure War

The Torments of Academia

According to a UH professor, his "perceived disability" is one

Diagnosis

After being drugged, hypnotized and bound by restraints, the patients of Judith Peterson say they came to believe they had multiple personalities or had belonged to satanic cults. So, apparently, did their therapist.

Crisis on Cullen Boulevard

Funding is down. Faculty is fleeing. And 50 professors are in semi-open revolt. Is the University of Houston on an irrovocable slide toward mediocrity?