In the month of August the @savageminds twitter feed was abuzz with good links and I collect them for you here each month, just in case there’s any you missed. Like us on Facebook if you’re not the tweeting type and if you see something around the web that you’d like to share with our community then email me. I can be reached at mdthomps @ odu.edu.

• Fascinating convo w/ Kelty, Colman, and Strassler about anthropology of digital technologies and cyberworlds. //MT
• The “hackers” of the popular imaginary do not exist, still fear drives paranoid and restrictive internet laws. //MT
• For all the legendary children: Drag queens endorse Chic-Fil-A. //MT
• London struggles to strike economic gold with summer Olympics. //MT
• Romney Hasn’t Done His Homework by Jared Diamond … Read Savage Minds on J.D. here /KF
• New book seeks to retell the story of Charles Darwin’s use of photography to study human emotions. //MT
• Australia may use their constitution to recognize Aborigines as the original inhabitants of the continent. //MT
• The muxes, a flexible third gender category from Oaxaca, Mexico (images and links to NPR and NYT pieces). //MT
• The Digital Public Library of America: another copyright is possible. //MT
• Lévi-Strauss gets his IRB application rejected… /via @sepoy /KF
• Student debt up, all other kinds down. Aggregate total even greater than credit card and auto loans. //MT
• More unquotations from the New Yorker /KF
• Occupy, Anthropology, and the 2011 Global Uprisings /kf
• Geolocated tweets reveal regional cultural differences in the US. //MT
• Long-form journalism well done: an intimate look at life in America’s poorest county in southeast Kentucky. //MT
• The forgotten tale of William Alexander Morgan, the American comandante of the Cuban revolution. //MT
• Need some inspiration? This one’s short I promise — How to Write. //MT
• Kickstarter to create a strategy card game based in the power struggles between 19th century Melanesian chiefs… /KF
• Schwarzenegger buys himself a nice policy institute at USC. //MT
• “To be human is to be aware of the passage of time” – on the culture & history of timekeeping @brainpicker //MT
• Symbolic Interaction: How to stop someone from sitting next to you on the bus. //MT
• “Vast network” of stone structures in Orkney isles are 5000 y.o. //MT
• Gender and the challenges of being a dual career academic couple: survey of 30,000 faculty. //MT
• The merits of getting high. Taussig imagines himself hanging out with Benjamin and Burroughs. //MT
• Duke the latest to offer free courses online with Coursera @DUKEpress //MT
• Not The Israel My Parents Promised Me — the last of Harvey Pekar’s posthumous publications [review] //MT
• Pine Ridge Community Storytelling Project is a work in progress. Looks promising! //MT
• “Writing Culture at 25” issue of @culanth now out from behind the paywall, get your PDFs while they’re hot… /KF
• BBC Horizon: Do you see what I see? “The Himba tribe” … /via @soclinganth /KF
• What the Inuit taught scientists about orcas @bjkingape //MT
• Out of Bounds: hyper-masculinity and legitimate spaces of affection in basketball. //MT
• Intersections of gender and race: Oprah’s natural hair stirs controversy. //MT
• HEARTH Act: Tribes will handle their own long-term land leasing w/o prior federal government consent @IENearth //MT
• In case you’ve been missing out on the fun: Comedian Ryan McMahon tweets #PowwowShadesofGrey //MT
• In wake of #oakcreek, Harjant Gill has made film ‘Roots of Love: On Sikh Hair and Turban’ available for free! /kf
• “There are now far more books available, far more quickly, on the iPhone than in the New York Public Library.” //MT
• That plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress? Definitely still happening. //MT
• European Commission to consider using aerial drones to watch for undocumented immigrants in the Med Sea. //MT
• “Hardly anyone is sneaking across the Mexican border… Net illegal migration has stopped almost ­completely.” //MT
• Green Card Stories: oral history from 50 immigrants to the US. //MT
• Best practices and tips for Twitter in the classroom. @johnhawks //MT
• Scientists Teach Chimpanzee To Conduct 3-Year Study On Primates… /KF
• The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research… /via @texasinafrica /KF
• Facebook is for bonding, Twitter is for bridging: Social media behavior as help-seeking behavior. //MT
• Hand-made radial diagramming of Inuit kinship ties is fascinating, intimidating. //MT
• Rack up the likes and shares by manipulating people via social networks, G.Tett @johnkeithhart //MT
• Humanae, a tumblr full of skin tones. via @HumanOrigins //MT
• Actually, Todd Akin, the body’s response to sexual assault is quite complicated: J. of Clinical Forensic Med. //MT
• Beijing architect lives in an egg on the sidewalk. //MT
• How do you face Mecca from orbit? Malaysian Natl Space Agency publishes guide for faithful Muslim astronauts. //MT
• Anthropologist illuminates hidden history of Wall St. with life-history interviews of the first women bankers. //MT
• Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff: a Nazi, a member of the French resistance, and an anthropologist… /KF
• A neuroscientist gets his work featured in dream publication, only to see it spiral out of control… /KF
• Lost all-Native silent film from 1920 rediscovered. //MT
• New OA journal Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. //MT
• Community radio helps language preservation in indigenous communities. //MT
• Barack Obama on Reddit’s Ask Me Anything. //MT
• Renowned civil rights-era photographer was paid informant for FBI. //MT
• Story-telling across the Gulf Coast for environmental justice @davidberiss //MT
• The long history of Americans debating empty chairs. //MT
• Defining Culture Project: Call for Definitions. @anthrocharya is collecting definitions of culture… #defncult /kf