Media and Social Change: Julian Assange’s theory of change, in his own words
Quantum mechanics and its modern evolution left me with a theory of change and how to properly understand how one thing causes another. My interest was then in reversing this thought process and...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Saudi capital contributes Istanbul’s Maslak 1453...
Saudi pays $190.7m for 469 Istanbul apartments gulfnews.com Manama: A Saudi businessman is paying $190.7 million (Dh700.27 million) for 469 apartments inIstanbul, a Turkish daily reported. The sale by...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: “Record unemployment in Europe…
MAIN FOCUS: Record unemployment in Europe | 26/04/2013 from euro|topics According to figures published on Thursday, for the first time more than six million people are currently out of work in Spain,...
View Articletabsir.net: Libyan Camels
The photographs here were taken of camels and people in Libya around 1957 by Dr. Virgil Clift.
View ArticleLanguage Log: George Jones
John Pareles, "His Life Was a Country Song", NYT 4/26/2013: George Jones, the definitive country singer of the last half-century, whose songs about heartbreak and hard drinking echoed his own...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: mapping the southern block, hubei old village
Students of Hong Kong artist, Momo Leung Meiping created a series of interventions in Old Hubei Village. Projects included making pillows out of old clothing, poetry painted onto the walls, a balloon...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Subversion at the spam factory?
So this is new, at least for me — the latest batch of a few thousand spam comments (adding to the pile of 5,095,703 caught so far) pretends to come from people using negatively-evaluated pseudonyms in...
View Articletabsir.net: Damned to be Devout
Source In much of the Western world Sunday is traditionally the day devoted to religion (and picnics and sports and going to the beach when the sun shines, etc.). Even those who are not devoted to a...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Historic Win for the Pirate Party Movement in...
Pirate Party Enters Iceland’s National Parliament After Historic Election Win from TorrentFreak by Ernesto Founded in 2006, the Pirate party movement has scored some big and small victories over the...
View ArticleThe Other Sociologist: From “Anti-Rape Underwear” in India to Sexual...
By Zuleyka Zevallos, PhD. Trigger Warning: Rape. A couple of weeks a go, a new, so-called “anti-rape” underwear device got quite a bit of international attention. It was invented by a team of Indian...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: PM Erdoğan messing around with minds: On Turkey’s...
Turkey‘s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during the Global Alcohol Policy Symposium in Istanbul April 26, 2013. REUTERS/Murad Sezer For a healthy generation, grandfather suggested me to...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Street theater in Shoreditch
By Sean Carey It’s around 8 p.m. I have just turned the corner at the top of Shoreditch’s Great Eastern Street in London. I am walking past the fashionable Bird & Ballard coffee house when I am...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Ramps, chives, garlic, and other members of the Allium genus
Four days ago, I had never even heard of "ramps" (in the sense of a vegetable), but on Friday the 26th, I had a great revelation. That morning I went up to the Swarthmore COOP to replenish my larder,...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: “Haşim Kılıç: Anayasa halka...
Anayasa halka gitsin from Hürriyet ANASAYFA Anayasa Mahkemesi Başkanı Haşim Kılıç, yüksek mahkemenin 51. kuruluş yıldönümü töreninde çözüm süreci, yeni anayasa ve yargıya ilişkin önemli mesajlar...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “the disastrous Bush presidency told in 24 charts.....
The magnitude of the disastrous Bush presidency told in 24 charts from Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder In 24 charts, the Washington Post reveals how George W. Bush‘s presidency screwed up the country...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Journalism roundup: Churnalism, Boston explosions...
Churnalism: discover when the “news” you’re reading is a press-release from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow Syrian Electronic Army takes credit for hacking AP Twitter account from FP Passport After the...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: Austerity rows, new Italian...
Austerity row lays bare Europe-wide divisions from Hurriyet Daily News The financially-hit European countries seesaw between the European Union’s austerity impositions and their citizens and...
View ArticleFieldnotes & Footnotes: open your window, wider, wider (Nabokov)
I read this poem a number of times over before I realised just how gentle and lovely it is. It reminds me now vividly of opening the shutter windows of a most homely home in Sardinia and,...
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