tabsir.net: Yin and Yang over Yemen’s Drones
Men walk past anti-drone mural in Sanaa, Yemen, Nov. 25, 2013; photography by Juan Herrerro Yemen’s New Ways of Protesting Drone Strikes: Graffiti and Poetry by Tik Root, Time Magazine, November 30,...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: School for Advanced Research Native Artist Fellowships...
School for Advanced Research Native Artist Fellowships (deadline Jan. 15)
View ArticleCyber Anthropology: Facebook & Self-Censorship
Salon recently featured an article (Salon.com) about a study (PDF) that reveals how Facebook monitors self-censorship by tracking everytime we type something, even if we decide not to post it. While...
View ArticleMuseum Anthropology: National Museum of Natural History Receives $1 Million...
National Museum of Natural History Receives $1 Million To Increase Global Access to Endangered Languages
View ArticleThe Superorganic: Professional Ethics or Gamesmanship?
What are some of the beat examples of ethical codes? I think of the Ten Commandments in the Bible or Jesus' "Love the Lord God Almighty with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself" These are...
View ArticleLanguage Log: From a perception standpoint
During a game on 11/28/2013 between the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin got in the way of a kickoff return by Jacoby Jones, as a result of standing with...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Science, cognitive, rapport, communication, niche
What do those five words have in common? Michael Quinion, World Wide Words Newsletter 862, 12/14/2013: Words of the year The track record for words of the year has not always been impressive (does...
View Articlehawgblawg: Mahragan (electro sha'abi) at the Norient Musikfilm Festival,...
I was asked to write the program notes on electro sha'abi (better known in Egypt as mahragan) for the 2014 Norient Musikfilm Festival, and they were just published today. You can read them here in...
View ArticleThe Subversive Archaeologist: "Off With Their Heads," Cried the Queen....
Back in the late 80s, some well-meaning palaeoanthropologists dug up a few bits of bipedal ape skeleton at the cave of Saint Bernard, in Italy. Most likely because they were digging in what had...
View Articlehawgblawg: Rue Georges-Picot, Beirut, 1958
I sooooo love this photo by Thomas Abercrombie from the April 1958 issue of National Geographic, and featured as "photo of the day" on the National Geographic website on August 23, 2013. (For a...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Brain wiring and science reporting
People have been asking Language Log (well, at least one somewhat off-topic commenter asked once) whether we have a view about the recent study alleging sex differences in brain wiring by Ragini Verma...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: a visual memorial for Mandela.. a literati roundup…
Mandela: a visual memorial VISUALIZING IMPACT 15 December 2013 ********************** World’s leading authors join surveillance of personal data debate Over 500 of the world’s leading authors released...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: 1 million free images from British Library…
here is the link: [www.flickr.com] British Library uploads one million public domain images to the net for remix and reuse The British Library has uploaded one million public domain scans from...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Qunu
The little village of Qunu in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, birthplace of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, is in the news today. But I have heard no one on the BBC's radio services who can even...
View ArticleLanguage Log: A note on those wiring diagrams
The paper that Geoff referred to a bit earlier today is Madhura Ingalhalikar et al., "Sex differences in the structural connectome of the human brain", PNAS 2013. It features a very impressive graphic...
View Articlehawgblawg: Kufiyaspotting remembered: Tahrir in the New York Times
Today's (December 15) New York Times featured this photo (in both the print and the online versions) from Jehane Noujaim's very well-received documentary on the Egyptian uprising of January-February...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: Eurosphere agenda: Aydan Özoğuz, Germany’s first...
Aydan Özoğuz Germany names first ever Turkish-origin Cabinet member Deputy leader of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD), Aydan Özoğuz, has been announced as the country’s new state minister for...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Annals of over-interpretation
Some useful framing for the Ingalhalikar et al. paper I wrote about earlier today – Christian Jarrett, "Getting in a Tangle Over Men's and Women's Brain Wiring", Wired 12/4/2013: [L]et’s set this new...
View ArticleErkan in the Army now...: The grudge continues: Another provocation in a...
While, Police intervene in group commemorating killed proterters in Gezi Park, A Kasımpaşaspor fan in guise of being a BJK fan, entered the pitch and attacked a Beşiktaş player… Kasımpaşa is close to...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: baishizhou superhero!
Baishizhou Superhero has been installed at Handshake 302. Come and see and play with the first urban village superhero photo stand-in! Below, the curatorial statement for the installation. Baishizhou...
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