Language Log: Noodle devils
Nathan Vedal wrote to tell me about an interesting mistranslation into Chinese that he recently came across. Having purchased some not particularly healthy, but quite delicious, instant noodles...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Hare Krishnas lose legal battle against McDonald’s in...
By Sean Carey The on-going legal battle between the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and McDonald’s over the right to sell hamburgers at the Jumbo Phoenix shopping mall in...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “Istanbul voted European Best Destination for 2013″...
Istanbul voted European Best Destination for 2013 Travel Daily News International Istanbul took 1st place in European Best Destinations 2013, followed by Lisbon in 2nd place and Vienna in 3rd. Now in...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Chranna and Fluffya
From the start of "What Can Doctors Learn by Admitting Their Mistakes?", Part 1 of the TED Radio Hour episode Making Mistakes: Guy Raz: That's Brian Brian Goldman: I'm uh staff emergency physician at...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Scientific solution to the tension in Turkish...
Color of seats makes Turkish MPs see red: Report from Hurriyet Daily News The main culprit for the explosive atmosphere at the assembly is the color of the chairs, according CHP’s report A politics...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: laying siege to the villages: the nantou peninsula
A five-part essay, “Laying Siege to the Villages” has been published online at Open Democracy. Here’s part two on the Nantou Peninsula. 2. Concentric Occupations: Nantou Peninsula The built...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: Cyprus crisis, Italian election...
Tough Bank of Cyprus terms detailed from BBC News | Europe | World Edition Officials spell out the tough Bank of Cyprus “haircut” that depositors holding more than 100,000 euros must take as part of...
View ArticleC L O S E R: Makamba’s: Dank voor de slavernij
Closer Blog: De neger komt wel uit het oerwoud maar het oerwoud komt nooit uit de neger of 'Jullie (de mensen van Curaçao) zouden ons (de blanke Nederlanders) dankbaar moeten zijn dat we in de 17e...
View ArticlePopAnth - Hot Buttered Humanity: Thinking in radioactive time
Ed Davey, the UK Energy Secretary of State, declared – probably through gritted teeth – ”I am confident the programme to manage radioactive waste safely will ultimately be successful.” [1] He made...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cengiz Aktar: AK Parti’nin müzakere vakti
AK Parti’nin müzakere vakti AK Partinin on küsur yıllık siyaseti, geçmişin adaletsizliklerini izale etme ve iktisadiyatın verdiği olanaklar sayesinde kalkınmadan en geniş kitleyi faydalandırmak...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “Extraordinarily Tiny Paintings of Istanbul by...
Extraordinarily Tiny Paintings of Istanbul by Hasan Kale | Colossal By Christopher Jobson The Turkish artist makes use of everything from fruit seeds to the wings of taxidermied insects as a backdrop...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: April 2013: Ethnomining and the combination of...
image from Fabien Girardin. After the two previous editions (Openness and Stories to action), it’s now time for our April edition on combining qualitative and quantitative data. While ethnography...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: An uplifting experience – adopting ethnography to study...
Editor’s note: This post for the April ‘Ethnomining‘ edition comes from Rebekah Rousi, who is a researcher of user psychology and PhD candidate of Cognitive Science at the University of Jyväskylä,...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Nice one on Morozov’s rhetoric of contempt:
Evgeny Morozov and the Rhetoric of Contempt from The Meta-Activism Project by Mary Evgeny Morozov is perhaps the most skilled contemporary practitioner of the rhetoric of contempt. He seeks to win...
View ArticleEthnography Matters: Insights from network data analysis that yield field...
Editor’s note: This post for the April ‘Ethnomining‘ edition comes from Fabien Girardin who describes his work with networked/sensor data at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Fabien, from the Near Future...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: From Turkey to EU: Turkey’s EU minister- Islam...
Turkey and Israel: reviving strategic ties? from Yahoo News Photos An apology by Israel’s prime minister may ease tensions between Turkey and Israel. But despite pledges from the two country’s leaders...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Erdoğan to meet with the “wise people” , whom...
Turkish government to meet with ‘wise people’ April 4 from Hurriyet Daily News The government will meet with the “wise people” April 4 for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue.. Deadline fever...
View ArticleACCESS DENIED: News Round Up In-Brief
U.S. News According to a Pew Research Center Survey, the majority of people in the United States believe that there should be a way for undocumented immigrants to remain the United States. The...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Sosyal Medya alanında çalışan ajanslar (48):...
Erkan’s Field Diary sosyal medya alanında çalışan ajansları tanıtan seriye devam ediyor. sakaerka@gmail.com adresine logo, iletişim bilgileri, kısa tanıtım, varsa birkaç ekip fotosu gönderirseniz...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: Google faces European privacy...
Google faces European privacy probe from BBC News | Europe | World Edition Six European data protection bodies are to launch coordinated investigations into Google’s privacy policy Islamic headscarf...
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