We like to read at Savage Minds and we like to share. Around the Web is our a monthly collection of internet flotsam ostensibly of interest to anthropologists. There’s some news and politics, a few timewasters, and academia stories mixed in with reports about evolution, culture, and methodology. You can follow us @savageminds, like us on Facebook, or wait for them to be collected here. Here’s what we were reading in the month of May.
- Dogs, But Not Wolves, Use Humans As Tools /via @GregDowney1 /KF
- What does the future have in store for the public library? Something new is right around the corner. //MT
- Futurist anthropology: On coming to terms with networked anthropology. //MT
- Liking something on Facebook not “substantive” enough to be protected as free speech, US District judge rules. //MT
- Anti-intellectualism, déjà vu. /by @ncecire /KF
- “Journalists are tempting targets for spies.” How about anthropologists? (Includes practical advice.) /kf
- Listen to Gayle Rubin read from her book DEVIATIONS /via @DUKEpress /KF
- New title from Alison Bechdel. Read my review of Dykes to Watch Out For here. //MT
- Masterclass lectures will form new book series from HAU. //MT
- If you’re genuinely interested in a critique of Black Studies (or similar) /KF
- Like free books? Check out the free e-book of the month from University of Chicago Press. //MT
- List of Predatory Open-Access Publishers /KF
- AAA Statement on Marriage and the Family, has links to op-eds by anthropologists on gay marriage /KF
- “Predatory” Open Access Publishers — The Natural Extreme of an Author-Pays Model /KF
- Free e-books from Left Coast Press (also DRM’d, requires Adobe Digital Editions) //MT
- “We can never know which of our students will bring about the next revolution.” //MT
- When same-sex marriage was a Christian rite. //MT
- The latest American Ethnologist has 3 #openaccess article on #occupy thanks AE!
- RT @kerim: Language, Culture, and Being Human – Daniel Everett at LSE /KF
- RT @AllanAnthro: For #anthropology using @SenteApp then I’ve got a pretty decent @AmericanAnthro style done /KF
- RT @openculture: Headbanging Anthropologist Takes Us Through the World of Heavy Metal in 2005 Documentary /KF
- Librarians expressed shock that univ. presses would sue a univ. for using their works for teaching purposes /KF
- Chomsky on Occupy: at least during the Great Depression there was optimism, today there is only despair. //MT
- Mandatory monogamy for adjuncts: USC Ed School to prohibit their adjuncts from also teaching at other schools. //MT
- Motorcycle polo all the rage in Rwanda these days. //MT
- What’s in your breast milk? Pesticides, jet fuel, flame retardant… //MT
- At some point we stop calling them minorities, right? US Census: majority of new births from minorities. //MT
- Animated political map of Europe, from 1000AD to present. //MT
- Minority Births the Majority? On how the whole idea of White People is Made Up /KF
- Native American Youth to Diane Sawyer: We’re Not Poverty Porn (via @QueerKnowledge) /KF
- NAACP board of directors backs protection of same sex marriage rights. Cites 14th Amendment. //MT
- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to advise British government on Open Access policy. //MT
- Infants’ flexible heads go back to at least 3 million years ago. //MT
- BBC podcast – The Digital Human //MT
- Empires, revolutions, and networks! Oh my! Interesting trailer for a new documentary with a lot of questions. //MT
- Vidal Sassoon, anti-fascist street fighter. //MT
- Adjuncts take heed: 10 ways to get fired. //MT
- Average undergrad study time, by major. Anthropology in top 50%. …Is college too easy? //MT
- RadioLab on Basic Color Terms /KF
- “More people going to college, but not nearly as many more people finishing college” /KF
- Human Evolution Isn’t What It Used to Be /KF
- Humans are (Blank) -ogamous: Many Intimate Relationships /via @CMcGranahan /KF
- El mundo de los “Memes”: Más allá que ser una simple imagen cómica, el ‘meme’ es una idea. //MT
- LSE library creates exhibition on creation of school’s anthropology dept in 1904. //MT
- “What possible reason would there by for a unicellular organism to kill itself?” //MT
- The tragedy of the United States Postal Service. //MT
- When urban planning fails: no one wants to play in your phoney downtown. //MT
- RT @zunguzungu: Please… no more “Don’t Go to Grad School” Articles /KF
- Rosa Clark: The Unsung Legacy – Patricia Williams on American Anti-Intellectualism /KF
- The threat to global health from the hunt for bin Laden /KF
- The Times-Picayune is at it again! Now with the Louisiana for-profit prison system coming under its scrutiny. //MT
- Charismatic West Virginian snake-handler dies as he lived. By a timber rattler. //MT