Having survived the Arctic Vortex (twice) and any number of ridiculously named storms my Southerner’s imagination is already trained to warmer weather. So while I’m composing this blog post to wind and rain, in my brain its already Easter and we’re eating fajitas and drinking beer in the sun. The Spring may seem like wishful thinking considering all the work that needs to be done between now and then. The deadlines flutter about and the crush of midterms is just around the corner. If you can, take the time out of your busy day to share with me the interesting links you find in your Internet travels, email me at mdthomps@odu.edu. I’d be happy to put them out over Twitter via @savageminds. The Facebook page has all the same links and you can leave comments too.

About once a month I collect the links we shared in a digest. Check it out. Maybe you’ll find one you missed.

• From the annals of language-structures-thought-and-perception, more research and a grumpy John McWhorter. //MT
• Human Terrain System spent $726 million on basically, nothing. -Rx
• Make room in your intersex lecture for the man with two penises. //MT
• Fulbright partners with Nat’l Geographic to offer fellowship in digital storytelling. //MT
• Google recognizes Zora Neale Hurston on 123rd anniversary of her birthday. /via @ncecire @RonaldRoach /KF
• “Best Known As A Writer, Zora Neale Hurston Was Years Ahead Of Her Time As An Anthropologist” ~Irma McClaurin /KF
• Anthropologist Gerald D. Berreman, expert on inequality in India and leader on ethical standards, dies at 83 /KF
• Your Third Year in a Ph.D. Program /KF
• ‘Humanitarianism is as culpable as war’ – an anthropology of Afghan widows /KF
• Psych researchers use dildos+cornstarch to argue penis shape evolved to scoop out competing semen from vagina. //MT
• Gratz to @culanth for publishing these ontology papers from #AAA2013 -Rx
• Smooth! Hear Elizabeth Tunstall rap about anthropology and participatory design. //MT
• ‘The time when “EVERYONE” in Europe was White does not exist.’ /via @adelinekoh /kf
• What Africa might look like if it had never been colonized? //MT
• Carlisle Indian Industrial School files go digital. //MT
• Rare & extinct English kinship terms (FB, FZ, MZ, MB, MB, etc) (we already knew ‘avuncle’ tho) -Rx
• @Somatosphere offers us a “Reader’s Guide to the Ontological Turn” -Rx
• The story of one woman’s journey to mental health and how toast became the latest artisanal food craze. //MT
• Rad: An #openaccess history of the AAA’s Society for Feminist Anthropology -Rx
• MT @pannapacker: The false claim that academic job market “has always been bad” = support for adjunctification. /KF
• The Sapeurs, mens fashion club of Brazzaville, featured in cool Guinness beer commercial. //MT
• Vale Stanley Tambiah -Rx
• Do what you love? “Who, exactly, benefits from making work feel like non-work?” /KF
• Haitian artist reaches the people of Port-au-Prince with graffiti. //MT
• The dark side of the Internet of Things: refrigerator botnets. //MT
• Haidy Geismar and Susanne Küchler ague against #OA misguided, imho. -Rx
• @haidygeismar I think a lot of people have already thought about this. Have you seen this ? -Rx
• “Pixel Dust” on the illusions and misconceptions of digital humanities and the role of tech in scholarly comm. //MT
• Good intro to perils of oversimplifying the concept of ‘Dreaming’ in aboriginal Oz via @ConversationEDU -Rx
• Rare Tlingit war helmet rediscovered after a century in museum storage. //MT
• Who is behind the Anthropology Theory wiki at wikis? Because its pretty good -Rx
• I can’t wait to use the Oculus Rift to try on other people’s bodies! //MT
• “@StrikeDebt: The UC system has been privatized and now pays over $1B/yr on interest alone to WallSt” /kf
• Christ, I hate Blackboard /kf
• Think Being an Adjunct Professor Is Hard? Try Being a Black Adjunct Professor. /KF
• Have any anthropologists/ethnographers tried out @oTranscribe “A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews”? /KF
• “some evidence suggests that profs. who receive high evaluations are actually worse teachers” /via @GregDowney1 /KF
• A big special issue on Mauss featuring @johnkeithhart @davidgraeber & many others. But behind a paywall :S -Rx
• Here’s Latour’s GAD presentation from #aaa2013 -Rx
• Sound Map of London /via @shashwati /KF
• RT @AnarchistGeog: Academia Explained through Muppets /kf
• Chhattisgarh government attempting to paint Anthropologist Nandini Sundar as a Maoist. /KF
• RT @rober_mf: “Native Americans call themselves many things. The one thing they don’t…” #ChangeTheMascot /KF