Gary M. Feinman

1 week ago | pnas.org | Adam Green |Gary M. Feinman |Pablo Cruz

Materials and MethodsAll animals were used according to the approved protocol by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee at Duke University. Mice used in this study include Ppp1r3cfl/fl mice (32), overexpressing Ppp1r3c (Ppp1r3cOE) mice (46), Scapfl/fl mice (JAX:004162) (2, 47), Idh1R132Q-KI (Idh1LSL/+) mice (20), R26IDH1R132C mice, R26IDH2R172S mice, Col2a1Cre mice (JAX:003554) (48), Col2a1Cre/ERT2 mice (29, 49), and interleukin-2 receptor gamma chain (gamma)-null NOD/SCID (NSG) mice.

1 month ago | countercurrents.org | Michael Hudson |Bruce Lerro |Gary M. Feinman |Phila Back

This text is adapted from Michael Hudson’s foreword to At the Origins of Politics by Giorgio Buccellati, and this excerpt was produced by Human Bridges. Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

Dec 6, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Magilan Karthikeyan |Kandathil Sebastian |Joseph Grosso |Gary M. Feinman

Introduction:It is curious why The Hindu newspaper has chosen to revisit Prof. Nilakanta Sastri’s 1964 lecture at this time, especially when more recent studies have emerged in the field. Contemporary research in anthropological genetics has provided new insights, confirming that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. Studies by Prof. Dr R Pitchappan have further mapped migratory patterns, showing genetic evidence that links the Nadar, Ezhava, and Thiyya communities with the L1 haplogroup.

Dec 2, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Gary M. Feinman |Adam Green |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Magilan Karthikeyan

The recent announcement by the Tamil Nadu government to honor British Archaeologist Sir John Marshall on the 100th Year of the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization is of great significance. This recognition also takes us back to the year 1902, when John Marshall, then just 25 years of age, was appointed as the Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) by Lord Curzon.

Nov 26, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Gary M. Feinman |Arnold R. Isaacs |Bharat Dogra

OrientationSituating my articleOften the rise of China and the Middle East appears to many Westerners as something recent, maybe 30 years old. Before that? Is Western dominance beginning with the Greeks and Romans – right? Wrong, not even close! The rise of the East and the South has roughly a 1,300 year history of dominance from 500 CE to 1800 CE. What is happening in the East today is no “Eurasian Miracle”.