Around the Web Digest

Here at the master control center for the Savage Minds Twitter feed, @savageminds, when we’re not out scouring the web for the finest in links we’re cutting and pasting them into a text editor at the end of the month. So here is your Around the Web Digest for the month of September dear reader. We hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed tweeting them. If you’ve found something around the web that you’d like to share with the Savage Minds community feel free to email me at mdthomps AT odu.edu. You can also “like” us on Facebook. See you round teh Interwebs!

• Archaeologists find Acheulian and Oldowan tools together, two traditions were sometimes contemporaneous. //MT
• First grade checklist, 1979: Can your six year old walk 4-8 blocks alone? //MT
• Military translator mostly reads paperbacks while in Iraq, never touches language related tasks. //MT
• Last week’s Nova “Becoming Human Pt.II: Birth of Humanity” //MT
• Here’s the political editorial everyone is sharing – a real barn burner. //MT
• Modern philosophy timeline #timewaster //MT
• RT @jasonjackson2: How Enclosed by Large For-Profit Publishers is the Anthropology Journal Literature? /KF
• New evidence in the 97 year old case of labor legend and folk hero, Joe Hill //MT
• 10 great things courtesy of labor unions. //MT
• Ruins of Roman gladiator school found in Austria. //MT
• Fox News poll on evolution, via the National Center for Science Education. //MT
• Nature will no longer be accepting submissions from humans. The machines want to be first author. #timewaster //MT
• Check out the fossilized hand on this A. Sediba! Tattersall: this opens “the question of what a human is” //MT
• Book reviews at FoodAnthropology- urbanism, biotech, Brazil, history, politics and more. //MT
• Why don’t Americans say ‘mate’ for friend? //MT
• UW garbage project analyzes undocumented immigration across the US/Mexico border in refuse. //MT
• Roots of Love: Exploring Hair in the Sikh Community. Winner SVA best student film award. /KF
• The Stitches Speak is an animated documentary about Kutch artisans. Winner SVA best short film. /KF
• RT @kevinkarpiak: Somatosphere: “Keywords” in Current Anthropology /KF
• Made to Be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology Edited by Marcus Banks & Jay Ruby /KF
• “You write too well,” for the prose is solid but the argument frail. //MT
• 2000-year-old document, unearthed from a Han Dynasty tomb, led to development of new Malaria drug. /KF
• Peru’s President signs law requiring indigenous peoples be consulted b/f industrial use of traditional lands. //MT
• Page Proofs ? Post-Prints; Websites ? Repositories by @jasonjackson2 /KF
• RT @yvessmith: David Graeber: On the Invention of Money /KF
• special issue on ‘Imagined Communities in the 21st Century’ /RM
• Stuart Hall on the contemporary scene. //MT
• As income inequality rises, so has the gap b/w rich and poor colleges and universities. //MT
• Cherokees’ Explusion of Blacks Draws Rebuke /KF
• Dutch anthropologist to study City of London bankers /KF
• The species-level trap: variation between individuals is central to scientific understanding of animal behavior. /KF
• Worldwise Development, about which @kerim blogged a year ago, has officially launched: @worldwise_tweet /KF
• Music is a ritual, not black dots on a sheet of staff. Cultural musicologist Christopher Small dies at 84. //MT
• Not quite the Wild Boy of Aveyron, but this is still pretty weird… //MT
• The anthropology of slum life: a round up of links to new research on life in extreme poverty. //MT
• New Disney resort in Hawaii will have a native culture theme. Irony ensues. //MT
• Piled Higher and Deeper now a feature film, limited engagement at a student union near you. //MT
• Duke U marks 25 years since the publication of “Writing Culture”. //MT
• Roy Boney’s Special Graphic Feature: “How the Cherokee Syllabary Went from Parchment to iPad” /KF
• How long before every course needs its own video trailer? /KF
• “The Third World debt crisis has come home to us” – David Graeber on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ /KF
• Charley the Australopithecine hunts and gathers his way through the Great Recession. //MT
• Cathy Lutz talks to anthropologyworks about Brown U’s “The Costs of War” report. //MT
• College admissions officers increasingly interested in admitting students who pay full price. //MT
• I can haz Masters? London School of Economics grad writes thesis on LOLcats. //MT
• Jane Goodall on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”. //MT
• Loic Wacquant on neoliberalism and the prison industrial complex. //MT
• Neoliberalism as self-licking ice cream cone. //MT
• Racializing Discourses: A special issue of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (free) /KF
• Using aerial drones for archaeological survey. //MT
• Update on culturomics the quant. study of words in publishing — Psst, here’s my old post //MT
• Princeton U. will prevent researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers /KF
• Anthropology looks kinda marginalized in graphic mapping interdisciplinary citations. //MT
• RT @sramsay: Academics should stop doing peer review for non-open access journals. /KF
• Prehistoric children painted in caves too. //MT
• Museum of Children’s Art backs out of exhibit of works by Palestinian children. //MT
• The evolution of too big to fail: a graphic history of bank mergers. //MT

Matt Thompson is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. He was once cast as a soldier in Andrew Jackson's army in a theatrical production on an Indian reservation.