Fifty years ago, Dr. Michael Alpers went to Papua New Guinea to investigate kuru, a horrible sickness that kil... ...any distinct species, but by something completely new to the scientific community: prions, indestructab... ...d there were lots of changes. The introduction of new...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/24/The-Last-Laughing-Death/
Meet the Baining, an indigenous... ...eet the Baining, an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea who has the unusual claim of being the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/28/all-work-and-no-play-make-the-baining-the-most-boring-people-on-earth/
Photo: Blake Everson/Originpng... ...broath Hello, Neatoramanauts! Welcome to a new weekly caption contest series with fun... ...us, a marsupial native to the island of Papua New Guinea . Blake took the photo at a hunting camp...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/02/caption-contest-crazy-cute-cuscus/
Well, this certainly puts a diff... ...ayward Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society, anthropologist Holly Wardlow r...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/20/in-order-to-cut-off-my-anger-im-cutting-off-my-finger-and-giving-it-to-you/
Simon Eroro, an Australian journalist, really want... ...alist, really wanted to talk a group of rebels in Papua New Guinea . He crossed many miles of wild, dangerous territo... ...In his subsequent reporting for the Post-Courier newspaper , Mr Eroro exposed the cross-border movements of F... ...o exposed the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/08/reporter-wins-award-for-undergoing-circumcision-with-bamboo-twigs-in-order-to-write-a-story/
Swedish linguist Mikael Parkvall created this... ...o express how many languages they have produced. Papua New Guinea is quite a linguistic superpower. Aaron Hotfelde... ...rgiving terrain have kept the different tribes of Papua New Guinea relatively isolated, so that the groups' language...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/30/map-of-the-world-in-which-countries-are-weighted-by-the-number-of-languages-they-have-produced/
The BBC’s natural history unit sent an expeditio... ...sent an expedition to Mount Bosavi, a volcano in Papua New Guinea . Scientists on the team identified 40 new species of wildlife which have called the crater... ...ow up to 32 inches long! They also found colorful new bi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/08/40-new-species-found-in-papua-new-guinea/
Here's one gruesome way of avoiding a tribal warfa... ...iding a tribal warfare adopted by two villages in Papua New Guinea : kill every male babies born!By virtually wiping... ...rs that all the womenfolk have agreed to have all new -born male babies killed,' said Mrs Luke.'The wome...
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/28/papua-new-guinea-village-women-killed-all-male-babies-to-avoid-war/
