Is it just me or were our tweets a little anemic in the month of April? It seems we here at Savage Minds were pretty busy with end of the semester madness. Nonetheless here in handy digest form is everything we saw fit to share over the last four weeks on the topics of anthropology, academia, politics, and a couple of things on Mongolia I had lying around in my bookmarks. If you’ve seen something around the web that you’d like to share with the Savage Minds community send me the links in an email, MDTHOMPS @ODU.EDU. And if you want to hang on our every word this summer but haven’t already signed up go ahead and follow us on Twitter @savageminds or like our Facebook page which is pretty much the same thing but, you know, on Facebook.
- How the categories of “homeless in America” and “empowered abroad” are constructed /via @evgenymorozov /KF
- RT @daniel_lende: Hot Find! Humans Used Fire 1 Million Years Ago /KF
- 20 Services Google Thinks Are More Important Than Google Scholar /kf
- The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens /KF
- Cultural Anthro Hot Spot: Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet Co-edited by @CMcGranahan and @BeijingNomad /KF
- US Anthropologist in Mali http://bit.ly/IKNusS Becomes Sought-After Blogger /KF /via @OccupAnthro
- We don’t do Calls for Papers on Savage Minds, but you can check out http://Conferencealerts.com /kf
- The Last Enclosures. @swarthmoreburke on “professors only work 15 hours a week” /KF
- Having an abortion in 1978: “I’m pregnant but I’m not trapped… I don’t have to be ashamed or terrified” //MT
- This is SO true. Gender and intensifying modifiers in speech. //MT
- Protecting democracy and fighting global climate change go hand in hand in the Maldives. //MT
- How will robot prostitutes change the global sex tourism industry? //MT
- Watch a Mongolian family erect their ger in fast forward. //MT
- Let’s go on a road trip… through rural Mongolia! //MT
- American Anthropological Association 2012 Elections – Candidates on Open Access /KF
- Swedish Minister in ‘racist circumcision outrage’ /KF
- “Hopefully” this is the end of it. Prescriptive vs. descriptive worldviews in English dictionaries. //MT
- RT @Awl: How Not to Kiss in Paris /KF
- What is an old card catalog good for anyways? Art! //MT
- Hmm… is this a metaphor for something? Luxury cruise ship passes boat in distress w/o stopping. Two die. //MT
- Shailja Patel: The missing ingredient in Sweden’s racist-misogynist cake /via @zunguzungu /KF
- [PDF] Review Essay: RACE: Are We So Different? (Review of AAA exhibition on race.) /KF
- Know your Middle East memes: a guide by @jilliancyork /kf
- Some notes on the universality of art; evolution from a philosopher’s standpoint. //MT
- Spring cleaning this season? Throw away your grades. //MT
- The Worrying Consequences of the Wikipedia Gender Gap /via @zunguzungu /KF
- Video game designed to treat mild depression in teens found to be as effective as counseling. //MT
- U Florida eliminates Computer Science dept, athletics budget grows +2%. //MT
- Young Americans are less likely to own a car. Is this generational or an artifact of debt and a poor economy? //MT
- Harvard Library to faculty: we’re going broke unless you go open access /KF
- On using Pinterest to teach feminism. //MT
- North Carolina proposes to make cash reparations to remaining survivors of state eugenics program. //MT
- The Internet’s broken promises and online culture in Ghana. //MT
- Anthropologist Julian Brash’s “Bloomberg’s New York” is Village Voice’s 2011 best overlooked NY book. //MT
- RT @M_ONeal: Issue 4 « Anthropology of this Century /KF