Getting back on track with our regular Around the Web feature, which I momentarily delayed out of courtesy to a long run of excellent guest posts, here are the links to some of the things we were reading in the month of July. Follow us @savageminds or like our Facebook page to get them on an (almost) daily basis. I’m still a bit spotty when it comes to Twitter etiquette, so apologies if I stole you’re link and didn’t give you credit. 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 @ ODU.EDU.
- Happy (belated) birthday to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The big 3 double-0!! You don’t look a day over 250 baby. //MT
- Synopsis of 5 diff. attempts to move Rapa Nui moai statues ahead of current Nat’l Geographic cover story. //MT
- Selective colleges need to start accepting online courses for transfer credit. //MT
- “Walmart… created by free-market capitalism, yet for many critics it is what kills free-market capitalism” //MT
- Among gorillas motherly communication with infants shows awareness of their immaturity, ie. its baby talk. //MT
- “Snake fighting is one of the great traditions of higher education.” //MT
- Border Patrol detain 96 year old, former governor of Arizona. //MT
- Why Americans and Europeans give directions differently. Culture and perception of the built environment. //MT
- Broken America: Towns left in financial ruin — on the trend towards municipalities declaring bankruptcy. //MT
- American Library Assoc: Copyright for librarians and teachers in a nutshell //MT
- Chair of AAA communications and AAA treasurer speak out on the uncertain future of academic publishing. //MT
- Old Wal-mart turned into public library in Texas. //MT
- India considers banning tourism near Andaman tribal peoples. Some existing resorts to be forced to close. //MT
- Collection of book reviews on “Rebel Cities” by David Harvey. //MT
- “Non-cooperation in military matters should be a vital part of the moral code of scientists,” Einstein 1/20/47, in new found letter //MT
- The geography of twitter: global tweet density mapped by nation. //MT
- I feel my stuff: NYT talks to anthropologist Anthony Graesch about… things. “Life at Home in the 21st Century.”
- Towards a Manifesto for Experimental Collaborations between Social and Natural Scientists via @somatosphere //MT
- OA issue of Society and Space: “Queer Space” via @MargotDWeiss //MT
- New Peabody Museum exhibit on photography and anthropology. via @bjkingape //MT
- Caveat emptor: Federal financial regulations must be lifted for for-profit colleges, judge rules. //MT
- Is bilingualism still relevant in Canada? Institutionalized multilingualism as part of Canadian identity. //MT
- Highway of Tears: dozens of First Nation women disappeared or killed, none of the crimes solved. //MT
- Manipulating hunger: behind the scenes at a McDonald’s Quarter-pounder photo shoot. //MT
- On Michael Sudduth, the Christian philosopher of religion who converted to Hinduism. //MT
- Can’t read my poker face… Language Log explores the use of gambling tropes in political discourse. //MT
- Savage Minds now has “next post” / “previous post” links on individual post pages! (You may need to empty the cache to see them…) /KF
- The Kim Kardashian / Soren Kierkegaard mash-up you’ve been waiting for. //MT
- 45% of Britons agreed there are too many Muslims. Imagine nearly half the pop admitted there are too many Jews //MT
- Family structure is overrated as an explanation of inequality; culture of poverty misses wage inequality. //MT
- Where does multiculturalism come from? A political economist gets comparative with state formation. //MT
- David Harvey and economist Richard Wolff on Charlie Rose (video). //MT
- Looking behind the scenes in a classic anecdote of forensic linguistics. //MT
- Evangelicals believe the Bible teaches life begins at conception. But 30 years ago it was quite the opposite. //MT
- Does a ‘digital sociology’ exist? Would it be different than a digital anthropology? //MT
- Sake is more fashionable than ever as consumers in Japan look to support earthquake damaged breweries. //MT
Source for that Einstein quote?
Science Vol.336, page 1488. For those who don’t have a copy handy here’s the news story–