Not long ago this was the spot where a (semi)weekly Around the Web column appeared. I wrote those columns for a few months, fell behind, and declared web-link bankruptcy. In the interest of experimentation I moved Savage Minds’ collection of links to news, anthro blogs, and internet flotsam over to our Twitter account. If you do the Twitter you can ‘follow’ us @savageminds and get your links on a daily basis. I try to do 2 or 3 a day, Kerim writes them too, and every now and then Rex cleans the baby drool off his laptop to write a couple.

If you’re not the tweeting type, the twitter feed is reproduced on our Facebook page, which you can join by ‘liking’ Savage Minds. And both the Twitter and Facebook accounts automatically post when a new article shows up here on Savage Minds. For those of you who do neither… you’ve got a lot of nerve. Here’s a digest version of what we were reading in the month of July:

• AAA Abstracts Revisited, Being a Instance of Advocacy for Using the HathiTrust /KF
• The new Princeton Review rankings are out, including the cheeky ones. Where’s your alma mater on the “Reefer Madness” scale? (#9) //MT
• Pamthropologist gets grouchy over mandatory teacher training. //MT
• Cool maps made from geolocation tags in Flickr and Twitter posts. //MT
• Getting old changes your sense of the consequences of your actions, but dont let that become a judgement passed //MT
• Obama “has been moderately conservative to exactly the same degree that Nixon was moderately liberal” //MT
• Bangladesh: Indigenous or Not Indigenous, That Is The Question /KF
• Nisha Sondhe’s photos from Mumbai and New York compare and contrast life in the two cities. /KF
• DOJ report: local and county jails are 61% occupied by those awaiting trail. Only 39% of inmates convicted. //MT
• Google+ runs afoul of Aborigines over naming system. Is the mandatory first name and surname rule Eurocentric?
• Apparently there’s a lot more history and cultural context to cheerleading than I had assumed. //MT
• Not unusual for Sociological Images posts to critique advertising. But this one goes from Goffman to Charcot! //MT
• The Textile Museum grows through its association with George Washington University. //MT
• Community service and the transformation of the modern history and art museum. //MT
• A quick tour of the world’s best privately owned art museums. //MT
• Eagle Scout founds summer camp for kid atheists. //MT
• Language Log has some hilarious and subversive design you’ve got see. Wonder what the rest of the story is… //MT
• MALDEF sues school: teacher harassed child for wearing a Mexico futbol jersey. //MT
• The anthropology of debt: we’ve been borrowing longer than you think. //MT
• Two chefs enter the NMAI but only one leaves victorious in a climactic battle to serve beans, corn, and squash. //MT
• Muscogee tourists visit Washington, DC, and reflect on their ambivalent relationship to US history. //MT
• Check out the trailer for Cronenberg’s upcoming pic on Freud and Jung! //MT
• Conversation on Diane Rehm Show follows the latest on contraceptives, women’s health, and health care debate. //MT
• 34% of single birth deliveries in the US are C-section (2009), an all time high. WHO thinks 15% is adequate. //MT
• Commentary from Salon on Bebe Gloton, the breast feeding baby doll. Fox News isn’t ready for play lactation. //MT
• The future of race in America: more like Brazil? //MT
• Latina moms: next in line for the Oprah treatment? Cha-ching! //MT
• Thousands of immigrant children picking the fields in CA. Think of that next time you’re in the produce aisle. //MT
• Hispanics are increasingly comfortable calling themselves Indians. //MT
• On the view of Ciudad Juarez from El Paso: the fear of violence is the strongest fence. //MT
• Duke medical neurobiologist: Coke addiction relies on the same genes as natural salt craving. //MT
• Partners In Health needs skilled tradespeople in Haiti, ASAP. Expenses paid. Sound like someone you know? //MT
• Multispecies Salon exhibit explores our tangled relationship with other species at CUNY in midtown Manhattan. //MT
• Gillian Tett on Ireland financial crisis. //MT
• Don’t just sit there watching TED talks. Apply for one of 20 TED fellowships and finally give one! //MT
• The Nation: Clinton Foundation’s shoddy shelters in Haiti have turned toxic like FEMA trailers. //MT
• Shenanigans? Video of PNG tribe’s first contact with the outside world roundly decried as fake. //MT
• The quipu: barcode of the Inca. A quick overview from Slate with updates on current research. //MT
• “Beautiful Data: The Art of Science Fieldnotes” /RG
• Archaeologists on pipeline from Chad to Cameroon crank out 472 new sites, 100k years of history over 1000 km. //MT
• Paul Farmer on NPR’s Fresh Air. //MT
• Before you start that online social network research on Facebook or forums, better get an IRB. //MT
• Center for Public Anthropology gets a nonsuch website, announces contest winders. RG
• Behold! The mother f**king elements of style. //MT
• Latino war vet shot 60 times by Arizona SWAT in home invasion. //MT
• Icelanders take to the streets to bring bankers to justice. //MT
• PeopleMove.in visualizes the world’s migration patterns /KF
• Anthropologist Marc Moskowitz interviewed on Taiwan’s Electric Flower Car and funeral strippers. //MT
• First person account of masturbating inside an MRI (for science). Fun fact – MRI’s are not sexy in the least. //MT
• David Price’s new book, Weaponizing Anthropology. /KF
• PressForward, an open source, grey matter publishing platform fom GMU (the folks behind Zotero and Omeka). /KF
• Fascinating archaelogist/anthropologist/media critic Edmund Carpenter dies /KF
• Bioanth Kate Clancy blogs for Sci-American, calls for reframing how we talk about the body and menstruation. //MT
• Give a camera to a monkey and what do you get? Self-portraits. //MT
• Surgical bomb implants – a new front in the War on Terror? //MT
• The Primate Diaries Has Moved to Scientific American /KF
• Sit in on Michigan State Egyptian archaeology class, for free. /KF
• Anthropologist Nandini Sundar wins landmark case before Indian Supreme Court. /KF
• Alabama teen faces life in prison for miscarriage. //MT
• Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory /KF

PS. If you’ve found something around the web that you’d like to share with the Savage Minds community, just email me mdthomps AT odu.edu. Sorry, we don’t do CFP’s.