Enjoy this sampling of what we Minds were reading and linking to in the month of August. You can also receive them instantly and on a daily basis by “following” @savageminds on Twitter or “liking” Savage Minds on Facebook. If you’ve found something around the web that might be of interest to the Savage Minds community email me — mdthomps AT odu.edu.
- Cool maps made from geolocation tags in Flickr and Twitter posts. //MT
- Pamthropologist gets grouchy over mandatory teacher training. //MT
- J. Edgar Hoover kept close tabs on commie-jew, Claude Levi-Strauss. //MT
- The next financial bubble: student loans. //MT
- James Gleick: How Google Dominates Us (round up of several new books) //RM
- Self-publish your thesis! /KF
- “The thing about Chinese people is that they are always telling you what the thing about Chinese people is.” //MT
- Linguistic Moments in the Movies, Part VII /KF
- The Endangered Alphabets Project /KF
- Living Anthropologicaly on the future of cultural relativism, defends NYT op-ed about DSK and immigrants in US. //MT
- Won’t somebody please think of the children! A Facebook-is-making-kids-self-obsessed parody via Mind Hacks. //MT
- Drought in FLA uncovers 100 ancient dugout canoes. //MT
- Alternative methods of citation on Wikipedia for less-documented languages. /via @zunguzungu /KF
- Buddhist monks mark Wheel Turning Day, purchase 600lbs of live Maine lobsters & release them into the Atlantic. //MT
- Zunguzungu has compiled a very handy digest of analysis and reporting about the credit downgrade. //MT
- How does the US credit downgrade compare to other nations credit? This map shows S&P ratings around the world. //MT
- Romancing the PhD: when men feel threatened by smart women with credentials. //MT
- Somatosphere weighs in on the Horn of Africa famine with analysis and links. //MT
- ‘Hobbit’ just a deformed human? /KF
- Drug Dealers May Have Wiped Out “Uncontacted” Amazon Tribe /KF
- New study reverses a decade of research claiming chimpanzee selfishness /KF
- Anthropology of Facebook is an antidote to moral panic and trend peices — more here. //MT
- Children are learning indigenous language and culture in the heart of Bogota, Columbia. //MT
- Russell Brand’s op-ed on the UK riots is, perhaps unexpectedly, intelligent and acerbic. //MT
- The annotated apocalypse: Anthropologists tackle 2012 /KF
- Special issue of Qualitative Sociology: Ethics Beyond the IRB /RM
- Cosmetic surgery’s moral imperative in Brazil prompts reconsideration of the market’s relation to citizenship //MT
- RT @kmlawson: The Digital Humanities Are Already on Kickstarter /KF
- A revealing and somewhat unsettling photo essay “Where Children Sleep” //MT
- Early success using facial recognition software on photos of chimps. //MT
- RT @jonahlehrer: Why Are Scientific Retractions Increasing? /KF
- Meet the exorcist schoolgirls who travel the world casting out demons. //MT
- David Graeber on Doug Henwood’s radio show: Behind the News. /KF
- Study finds positive statistical association between austerity measures and unrest. /KF
- Law&Disorder: Frontline, ProPublica, Times-Picayune collaborative investigation on police Katrina shootings //MT
- Article about G. Bateson & art in the Guardian /via @danlatorre /KF
- Marshall Sahlins on Iraq: The State-of-Nature Effect. An OA article from Anth Today /RM
- The 400 richest families could buy everyone in the US (fill in the blank) //MT
- Bid to rename Homo Sapiens called unwise. //MT
- White supremacy keeps growing in Montana. Anyone want to slip them some subversive art? //MT
- “unacceptable” – Association of Black Women Historians critical of The Help. //MT
- The camera that supposedly changed the world /KF
- Education and the Structural Crisis of Capital /KF
- Psychologist discovers that the rich are generally more selfish than others. //MT
- Poynter: witty tweets get people to click on links, tweets that read like headlines generate more retweets. //MT
- A theory of junk drawers – book reviews at Material World: “Paraphernalia” and “Islands of Privacy”. //MT
- Paul Gilroy on the UK riots: militarized state, information flows, comparisons to 1981, immigration, &more. //MT
- RT @CliftonWiens: Homo erectus as sailors? /KF
- Its like “I (heart) Huckabees” in real life: philosophical counseling. A use for degrees in applied philosophy //MT
- Roman wreck full of wine jars found off the coast of Albania. //MT
- Exhibit showcases the influence of Japanese woodcut tradition on Inuit artists. //MT
- Mothers and whores: ex-pornstar turns to performance art, is shamed for nursing her infant dressed as Marilyn. //MT
- RT @Ememqut01: Berenstain Bears will soon be speaking Lakota /KF
- Afrika/Afrique/Africa – tribal art showcase in Vienna. //MT
- Bird intelligence and problem solving compares favorably with primates in some instances. //MT
- George Monbiot: Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist /KF
- RT @acorsin “unpaid non-cash costs of peer review… by academics is £1.9 bn globally each year” [PDF] p.19 /KF