Author: gregdowney

About gregdowney

Greg Downey is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney. A cultural anthropologist by training, neuroanthropologist by passion, Greg studies sport and dance as methods for perceptual, neurological, motor and phenotypic change. You can follow Greg @GregDowney1

Who’s afraid of a MOOC?: on being education-y and course-ish

By gregdowney
Posted: April 20, 2013
Category: Announcements, Evolution | Tagged , , | 12 Comments

PopAnth: get it while it’s hot!

By gregdowney
Posted: November 3, 2012
Category: Announcements, Culture | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Tanya Luhrmann, hearing voices in Accra and Chenai

By gregdowney
Posted: October 28, 2012
Category: Culture, Mind, Perception | Tagged , , , | 10 Comments

The marathon & Olympic movement on Huffington Post

By gregdowney
Posted: July 22, 2012
Category: Body, Health, Sport | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

Roid Age: steroids in sport and the paradox of pharmacological puritanism

By gregdowney
Posted: July 9, 2012
Category: Body, Society, Sport, Technology | Tagged , , , , | 28 Comments

‘Man-sheep-dog’: inter-species social skills

By gregdowney
Posted: June 25, 2012
Category: Evolution, Learning, Skill | Tagged , , , | 7 Comments

Not allowed to have a small heart: Tourette Syndrome

By gregdowney
Posted: May 16, 2012
Category: Announcements, Health, Stress | Tagged , , , | 8 Comments

The long, slow sexual revolution (part 1) with nsfw video

By gregdowney
Posted: January 10, 2012
Category: Evolution, Gender | Tagged , | 28 Comments

An online anthropology compiler (& nominations for Open Lab 2011)

By gregdowney
Posted: November 2, 2011
Category: Announcements | Tagged , | 13 Comments

Salman Khan talks at Web 2.0

By gregdowney
Posted: October 23, 2011
Category: Announcements, Learning, Technology | 1 Comment