Language Log: About those dialect maps making the rounds…
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably already seen Business Insider's "22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other." (Or, as it was originally...
View ArticleAAA blog: Supporting the AAA Summer Internship Program
The summer interns will be arriving in just a few weeks. The program is exclusively member funded and is now in its third consecutive year. While the interns are not paid, housing and a stipend to...
View ArticleEthnography.com: Discovering Exaptation: Or, How To Leverage Your...
I want take up Tony’s question about this Dennett quote: There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: Physical Translocation In Progress
My life isExpect delaysBut, since you're already here. How about a visit to Santa Cruz, California?The original Surf City! Home of the Subversive Archaeologist's World Headquarters until June 30,...
View ArticleSociety for Linguistic Anthropology: SLA Undergraduate Contest Announcement
(Via Jillian Cavaugh) The Society for Linguistic Anthropology would like to invite submissions of undergraduate student papers for the SLA’s Annual Student Essay Contest. The winner will receive a...
View ArticleSociety for Linguistic Anthropology: SLA Undergraduate Contest Announcement
(Via Jillian Cavaugh) The Society for Linguistic Anthropology would like to invite submissions of undergraduate student papers for the SLA’s Annual Student Essay Contest. The winner will receive a...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Revisiting CAFA Museum with Zhou Bo
Yesterday, I did not get to work on my marking as I did Skype calls in the AM and then met with Zhou Bo and one of Wang Min's assistants to go to the museum. I had already gone before, but I find Zhou...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: CAFA student artwork
It is final year exhibition time at CAFA. We went to see the painting exhibition. There was lots is amazing work. There were two pieces to which I really responded. The first was the brightly coloured...
View ArticleDori's Moblog: Today's Beijing smog index
It is a good thing I cancelled plans to walk for one hour to the organic grocery store. Definitely a mask on day today.
View Articletabsir.net: Bipolar Religion
The trendy 19th century Protestant philosophical theologian Søren Kiergekaard published a Danish book in 1843 entitled Either/Or. His faith-based binary is not the the standard good vs evil, God vs....
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Government threat on social media. A statement by...
The wave of resistance which started at Gezi Park in Istanbul and spread all over Turkey once again clearly revealed the deep connection between real time communication of the social media and social...
View ArticleIdeas Bazaar: Facebook’s vision and it privacy
From a nice essay by Paul Ford in MIT’s Technology Review on Facebook, Facebook Home and its moral ‘vision’ Facebook’s self-reflexive utility explains why the company finds privacy so tricky. The...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Long is good, good is bad, nice is worse, and ! is questionable
Sanette Tanaka, "Fancy Real-Estate Listing, Fancier Verbiage", WSJ 6/6/2013: Savvy real-estate agents know it's not just what you say. It's how long it takes you to say it. More-expensive homes go...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: ASEH 2014 CFP: Body Burdens, Biomonitoring, and Biocitizenship
Since at least the publication of Silent Spring, scientists, policy-makers, and the general public has focused on pollution in the environment as the object of regulation and control, a source of fear...
View Articleanthropologyworks: Can we really stand on our own two feet?
By Sean Carey Street side tailor in Bangkok. Many people around the world spend substantial time sitting/ Mark Fischer, Wikimedia Commons. In his 1982 book Man, the Tottering Biped the South...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Jack Jurich: Erdogan’s Folly: Another new...
Jack Jurich, a psychologist who has been living in Turkey for 3 years… Erdogan’s Folly: Another new “DEMOCRACY”? Italian female MEPs in support of Occupy Gezi. The intensity of the demonstrations that...
View Articletabsir.net: Islam minus “Theism”
[Webshaykh’s note: There are many Christians and Jews who still find spiritual and moral value in their faiths while rejecting literalist interpretations, especially those that preach exclusivity...
View ArticleGlossographia: Three new anthro-blogs
Readers of Glossographia may be interested in three new anthropology blogs that have popped up over the past month: Archaeogaming focuses on the intersection of archaeology and video games, and...
View ArticleAAA blog: Student Opportunity at the Office of Science and Technology Policy
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is currently accepting applications for its Fall 2013 Student Volunteer Program. Filed under: Career/Funding/Awards, Resources
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