Erkan in the Army now...: EFD Rights Watch: Last night- 12 protesters...
Initial findings say outlawed leftist group likely to be responsible for Ankara attack: Police Initial findings point to the DHKP/C, police said Rocket attack targets police social facilities...
View Articletabsir.net: Make love and make war?
A number of Tunisian girls who had travelled to Syria for “sexual jihad” have returned home pregnant, the government says Newspapers love a juicy story line. What could be more apt for tabloid...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Cyberculture roundup: Peace and Democracy Party...
Peace and Democracy Party asks Facebook to reopen its official pages BDP officials met with Facebook representatives requesting them to reopen their pages No, the Government Never Asked Linus...
View ArticleRecontextual: Indescision as creativity
In 2012, the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw exhibited "Chopin at his most indecisive", showing how Chopin continually revised his works with new versions and annotations. The exhition webpage...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Politics roundup: much-anticipated democratization...
English: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey at Çanakkale Türkçe: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Turkish PM sets date for the announcement...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: moving on up…shenzhen identity and urban villages
Urban villages inform and shape popular understandings of Shenzhen, both domestically and abroad. Intellectuals, also here and elsewhere, have decried the decision to raze villages and put up new and...
View Articlehawgblawg: Esther Ofarim does Scott Walker
I posted previously about Esther (born Esther Zaied, in Safad) and Abi Ofarim, their 1968 #1 hit "Cinderella Rockafella," and the fact that Esther's parents were Syrian Jews.This is just a footnote....
View ArticleHow to be an Anthropologist: Ethnographic Analysis – Research Proposal...
I am taking a graduate seminar this semester on ethnographic analysis with Dr. Douglas Holmes. The project for the term is to produce an exploratory research proposal. See part one, the research...
View ArticleAAA blog: Calling All Anthropologists – We Need You for Back To School
Today’s guest blog post is by the 2013 AAA Annual Meeting Program Chairs, Dr. Dana-Ain Davis and Dr. Alaka Wali. Share your passion with the local community through the Back to School program this...
View ArticleServisein*: L Train
Κατεβαίνεις τρέχοντας τα σκαλιά, σκύβεις το κεφάλι πριν ακόμα φτάσεις στο πλατύσκαλο για να δεις αν πρόλαβες. Φυσικά και δεν έχεις προλάβει. Το L train μόλις πέρασε. Παίρνεις ύφος αγέρωχο, “δεν...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: “10 Reasons U.S. Influence Has Fallen in the Middle...
National Security Agency Seal (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey) 10 Reasons U.S. Influence Has Fallen in the Middle East By most assessments, U.S. influence in the Middle East has dramatically declined...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Andrew Byrd reading Schleicher's Fable
Eric Powell, "Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European", Archaeology Magazine: In 1868, German linguist August Schleicher used reconstructed Proto-Indo-European vocabulary to create a fable in order to...
View ArticleDesign Culture Lab: Call for PhD Applications
The final round for this year’s PhD applications is coming up, and I’m looking for a few good people to come push the boundaries of design research with me. Do you have a strong background in...
View ArticleLanguage Log: There is wisdom that is like, whoa
From today's SMBC (click for the full panel): The OED's entry for whoa hasn't been updated since 1924, but the Wiktionary entry has 2. An expression of surprise. Most examples of "like, whoa" involve...
View Articlehawgblawg: more kufiyaspotting: Main Attrakionz
Main Attrakionz are a rap duo from Oakland, California, well known players in the "cloud rap" rap subgenre.And they seem to really like kufiyas. In all the colors.
View ArticleGlossographia: ‘False friend’ follies
Last week in my class, we were discussing loanwords as well as semantic change. You couldn’t ask for a more perfect (although bothersome) news story incorporating these two aspects of linguistic...
View Articletrinketization: Red Ant Dream 2:30 27.9.2013
Dear all i would like to invite to the screening of Sanjay Kak’s new film “Red Ant Dream” followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. When: Friday 27th, 2.30pm Where: NAB, LG01 [https:] Please spread...
View Articletrinketization: Marx Internet archive on farce and repetition.
So, its from Engels… History Repeats Itself? Marx never believed that “history repeats itself,” but in a famous quote he said: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Theory of Mind Hacks
Frazz for 9/24/2013: One of the problems with the principles of cooperative communication is that those who don't adhere to them are generally able to manipulate those who do. I've never seen an...
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