The kids have this thing called Twitter and since most of us Savages are courting a mid-life crisis we decided it would be a good idea to get hip and shout the academic equivalent of “Get off my lawn” from our respective ivory towers. Now if only we could afford convertibles everything would be all right! Follow us @savageminds or like our Facebook page, which pretty much has the same thing. If you’re actively avoiding the timesuck of social networks, you’re in luck because ever month or two I collect all the tweets here on the blog. If you’ve seen something around the web that you’d like to share with the Savage Minds community, email me at [mdthomps@odu.edu] or tweet back at us. So, without further ado here’s a selection of what we were reading in August and September.
August
- Business Insider: maybe we need labor unions after all. //MT
- Wenner-Gren changes deadlines for Hunt postdoc, discontinues Osmundsen Initiative. //MT
- RT
@acorsin: Anthropologist Chris Kelty chairs U of California (all ten campuses) migration to Open Access /KF - Keith Basso R.I.P. /KF
- Neuroscience and Race by
@daniel_lende /KF - Latest on HTS: “finding the truth is not just about gathering facts” //MT
- Anthropologist Jason De Leon studies the trash of undocumented migration across the US/Mex border. //MT
- .cont. From an exhibit of materials curated by De Leon at UMich. /MT
- Burundi rebel leader emerges from hiding to run for office. /MT
- 7 worst international aid ideas. //MT
- Lots to quibble about but very interesting: 40 Maps that Explain the World. //MT
- Students who use paper and pencil for notes outperform those who use laptops in class, Canadian study finds. //MT
- Announcing SCA’s new podcast series, AnthroPod!
@culanth - Is the Internet Cats? PBS IdeaChannel brings out totemism and metonymy in teh Webz fascination with kittehs. //MT
- Top 10 Most Expensive Colleges in America. //MT
- Archaeologists find phytoliths consistent with garlic mustard in German neolithic pot. //MT
- Natalie Zemon Davis and the FBI… In 1952 Rx
- WSJ: Moral hazard of forgiving student dept “encourages sociology and anthropology majors” //MT
- RT @lancegravlee A stellar annotated bibliography of biocultural anthropology from
@daniel_lende. Shows full range of approaches. - This guy seems pretty pissed off about gameification -Rx
- Can white girl twerking really be cultural appropriation? It’s complicated. //MT
- Kenneth Good’s son, David, visits his mother in the Amazon /KF
- Al Jazeera covers some fascinating Twitter wordplay with
#ihaveadrone //MT - A great web resource for understanding and teaching about inequality in America -Rx
- Ooh! Pretty. Library of Congress posts bunch of cool early 20th C. color photographs of Russia to its flickr account. //MT
- Alan Lomax’s incredibly massive archive of American blues music is coming online /KF
September
- Why a medieval peasant got more vacation time than you. //MT
- Academy Fight Song /KF
- Based on
@kjhealy’s Philosophy co-citation network@joncgoodwin has made one for AA /KF - And here is a poster
@kjhealy made from his data: (Notice what the data says about women.) /KF - The Great Language Game: how many languages can you distinguish between? /KF
- MT
@joncgoodwin: A co-citation graph of several cultural anthropology journals /KF - Ask A Slave: The Web Series by
@AzieDee /via@roopikarisam /KF - Why invent a fake Latin plural for a fake Latin singular? Stick with the plain English “syllabuses.” /KF
- The last link via this post: RT
@roopikarisam: “Accessibility Statements on Syllabuses” from@samplereality /KF - Ikea instructions for Stonehenge. //MT
- Gene expression and the social environment: it’s even more complicated than we thought. //MT
- Did you know American Anthropologist used to run obituaries of informants? Lines were more blurred then -Rx
- Why call Facebook superficial when face2face interactions are banal too? Daniel Miller’s Tales from Facebook //MT
- Economic inequality in US accelerated along racial lines, level of education during Great Recession. //MT
- “It sounds far worse to say ‘I’ve only closed 10 deals’ than to say ‘I’m proud to have closed one deal.'” -Rx
- Sikh man cosplays as Captain America. //MT
- Google maps street view makes it to the Galapagos Islands. //MT
- RT
@zunguzungu: British Empire trading cards, from 1904: Collect ’em all! /KF - US children are adopted internationally, especially African-American children, and the number is rising. //MT
- More Americans added to the pop of Mex over past few years than Mexicans added to the pop of the US. //MT
- Publish or Perish software claims to help you make the best case for the impact of your research. Thoughts? //MT
- Neo-Nazi have ambition to take over ND town. Lakota grandmothers steal their flag. //MT
- Adjunct professors have taken initiatives to change the status quo. /KF
- This is awesome: “Unfit for Product Placement: Radicalizing the Cartoon Characters of Our Childhood.” //MT
- RT @AmericanAnthro
#AAA member, Julie Livingston Receives MacArthur Fellowship@macfound