The Immanent Frame: Has modernity failed?
Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is noteworthy for its readiness to tread upon questions of morality and metaphysics that most historians would consider forbidden terrain. It is a common...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Computational linguistics and literary scholarship
Email from Dan Garrette: I am a Computer Science PhD student at UT-Austin working with Jason Baldridge, but I've recently been collaborating with my colleague Hannah Alpert-Abrams in the Comparative...
View ArticleLanguage Log: The English language's Twitter feed
I have a piece on Fresh Air today, behind the curve as usual, on the discussion that followed the Oxford Dictionary Online's inclusion of twerk, which Ben Zimmer covered in a post a couple of weeks...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: “Anayasa Uzlaşma...
anayasa (Photo credit: sontilki) Öc-alan Anayasası mı? Milliyet Halk, parlamentolarında yapılan ve yapılacak olan yasalarından huzur, istikrar, güven ve mutluluk beklerken, tersini yaşamaya başladı....
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: More Re: Karen Reubens and Neanderthal Lithic...
Over the last two years I've barked at and bitten the referees and editors of most of the journals we depend on for new knowledge of us and our origins: Science, Nature, Quaternary Research (QR), QR...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Sayable but not writable
The distinguished Chinese linguist, Y. R. Chao, developed the concept of "sayable Chinese" and wrote a series of books illustrating what he meant by it. Basically, what Chao intended by "sayable...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: even maoist spaces crumble and fade…
Only eleven houses remain occupied in Baishizhou’s Tangtou row houses. Nanshan District tacitly condemned these houses several years ago, but did not become serious about evictions until the...
View Articlehawgblawg: Get this: Mutamassik's newly remastered "That Which Death Cannot...
photo: Morgan CraftIn case you don't already know how cool Mutamassik is, The Wire is promoting this. That enough for ya?About the recording, Mutamassik sez: "It still 'cannot be bought or sold' and...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Who's REALLY the coolest?
Dinosaur Comics for 8/26/2013: Click on the image for a larger version that lacks some mouseover text helpfully glossing what is expressed by “*sigh*”. Hat tip: Bonnie Krejci
View Articlehawgblawg: Tehran Street Style
This is a lovely photo album of 'street style' in Tehran. Mostly women. If it's "street," however, it's definitely uptown and not downtown. Here's a sample.
View ArticleLanguage Log: It's baack…
"Cows Have Accents … And 1,226 Other 'Quite Interesting Facts'", NPR Weekend Edition 9/14/2013: Did you know that cows moo in regional accents? Or that 1 in 10 European babies was conceived in an IKEA...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “Turkish gov’t to finalize work on “democratization...
Turkish PM increases rhetoric against CHP, accusing it of fomenting unrest Turkish PM Erdoğan has accused the main opposition Republican People’s Party of fomenting unrest across the country,...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Turkey “cautiously” welcomes US-Russian deal on...
Turkey cautiously welcomes US-Russian deal on Syria Turkey has voiced a skeptical optimism after the United States and Russia agreed on a plan to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons Turkish FM...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Turkey’s first ever openly gay mayor candidate… A...
Turkey’s first ever openly gay mayor candidate announces bid A Turkish man who studied in the US is aiming to become the first open member of the country’s LGBT community Can Çavuşoğlu has said he...
View ArticleAnthropology Report: Anthropology Blogs Update: Additions, Revisions, New Blogs
It’s been too long since I’ve updated the big Anthropology Blogs 2013 list. Below are the additions, revisions, and new blogs, all added or revised back to the big list. Please let me know what I’m...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Shellfish soup with paper and rust
With three different kinds of paper, no less. Last week I spent a couple of days at a hotel in the Hague. In the elevator, there were advertisements for the hotel's restaurant, featuring among other...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: “Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu...
Fırat Anlı: Bir tane demokratikleşme paketi var, o da anayasa BBCTurkce.com Bir yanda KCK Eş Başkanı Cemil Bayık PKK‘nın çekilmeyi durdurduğunu açıklarken, öte yandan Başbakan Recep Tayyip...
View ArticleErin B. Taylor - Material culture, mobile banking and socioeconomic...
Clifford Geertz's "thick description" has become a stalwart of ethnographic methodYesterday, in the first session of EPIC2013, Martin Ortlieb asked a question that stopped me in my tracks. Plenty of...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere roundup: “8:45 – the European...
German parties wake up to growing migrant vote Arab Times (Kuwait) September 15, 2013, p. 16 AFP, Sept 14, Berlin German Chancellor Angela Merkel once alienated many immigrants by declaring...
View ArticleAAA blog: 2014 Building Future Faculty Program Announcement
North Carolina State University will offer the 2014 Building Future Faculty Program on April 2-5, 2014. This is an all-expenses paid workshop for diverse graduate students and post-docs who are...
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