Media and Social Change: Human character changed in 1995
By Rebecca Solnit (original title: In the Day of the Postman) London Review of Books In or around June 1995 human character changed again. Or rather, it began to undergo a metamorphosis that is still...
View Articletabsir.net: More Yemeni Photographs
The People’s Mosque in Sanaa; photographed by Turki Al-Mohaiya There is an extraordinary Facebook album entitled “So you think you ‘ve seen Yemen?” that is well worth visiting. Here are a few of the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Ode to The Best I Ever Had
Cassandra Gillig mashes up Frank O'Hara's 1957 Ode to Joy (read in 1966?) with Drake's 2009 Best I Ever Had: The whole thing: More here, featuring this quote from Gillig: I don’t want the “mash-ups”...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: retirement plans for older migrant workers?
Yesterday, a weixin article claimed that among China’s 230 million migrant workers, the number of workers over 50 years of age could be as high as 36 million. These 36 million, of course, were the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Another "Kids Today" conversation
Tom the Dancing Bug for 8/23/2013 starts this way: Read the whole thing. A few past LL posts on the Kids Today meme: "Balm in Gilead", 4/16/2004 "Kids today", 3/11/2010 "The curious specificity of...
View ArticleGlossographia: Explaining Californian language diversity
A recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, summarized in a Los Angeles Times news article, argues that there is a strong correlation between the linguistic diversity and...
View ArticleCultureBy - Grant McCracken: Alchemy at home
So you have a laboratory. You know a lot about contemporary culture. It’s time to move beyond the kitten video and create something more interesting, more provocative. One of your options is what we...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: #BarışİçinElele Human chains for peace in Istanbul...
Istanbul’s Gezi Park closed again on World Peace Day Taksim’s Gezi Park was closed against this morning to prevent people from gathering in the park for World Peace Day celebrations [View the story...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: US still hesitates… A massive Syria roundup…
France will not act alone in Syria, PM to meet parliament heads French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Sept.1 France would not act alone in Syria but would await a decision by the U.S. Congress...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Earworms and white bears
Zits for 8/31/2013: The OED glosses earworm as "A catchy tune or piece of music (or occas. a word or phrase) which persistently stays in a person's mind, esp. to the point of irritation". I was...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Vint Cerf on being a citizen of the Internet… How...
Snowden reveals US intelligence’s black budget Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked the government’s “black budget” for fiscal year 2013 to The Washington Post How to...
View ArticleGlossographia: Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious, and other monstrosities
Over at my obscure words website, The Phrontistery, there’s been a word that has been the subject of many astonished inquiries over the years: eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious, which means simply...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: Immigration detention and state...
Immigration detention and state denial in Greece In recent years, the Greek state has routinely deflected domestic and international criticism of the conditions in its immigration detention centres....
View Articletabsir.net: An 1873 Geography Lesson #1
My grandmother’s aunt, Ms. Ida Hoyt, owned an 1873 geography textbook entitled An Elementary Treatise on Physical Geography by D. M. Warren (published by Cowperthwait & Co of Philadelphia). The...
View ArticleIslam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist: Why we need an anthropology beyond...
As some of you may have noticed, not only has my blog shifted from a specialist focus within the field of anthropology to a more generally anthropological one, but the new name of the blog wishes to...
View ArticleIdeas Bazaar: On numbers
“To depend on statistics is to asphyxiate the dynamic heart of the business.” Simon Marks, co-founder of the UK retail giant, Marks and Spencer, 1956.
View ArticleAnthropology Now: Labor Day
Krystal D’Costa writes in Scientific American about Labor Day: There’s no question that technology has helped to create a safer workplace. But there’s also no question that technology is changing the...
View ArticleC L O S E R: TV Recensie MoslimOmroep: Loyaliteit en Dwang
Closer Blog: Een recensie over de eerste twee uitzendingen van de nieuwe Moslimomroep zaterdag 31 augustus jl.Read more: TV Recensie MoslimOmroep: Loyaliteit en Dwang
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Best of Turkish media. Yeni Şafak daily in Noam...
via @cigdemmater Chomsky accuses Turkish daily of fabricating parts of interview Accusing Yeni Şafak, Chomsky published the original version to back up his claims Turkish daily admits to making up...
View ArticleAAA blog: Who Teaches the Teachers?
In 2008, the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education surveyed more than 3,000 PhDs to help “assess the career paths of PhDs and the quality of doctoral education in U.S. social...
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