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May 19, 2013
1:33
Rohingya: A Hidden Genocide in a ‘racially tolerant’ country?
» ‎ C L O S E R

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Closer Blog: In a racial tolerance map of the Washington Post Burma / Myanmar appears to be more 'racially tolerant' then India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. Let's consider the genocide of the Rohingya Muslims.Read more: Rohingya: A Hidden Genocide in ...

May 18, 2013
21:19
EFD Rights Watch: “Officials fail to secure Reyhanlı bombing site…..Number of Women on Police Protection Skyrockets in Turkey…
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Officials fail to secure Reyhanlı bombing site Security at the site of the deadly terrorist attack in Reyhanlı remained lax hours after the event, while officials confess to incompetence and negligence. Number of Women on Police Protection Skyrockets in ...

21:08
Mahragan in Beirut (Sadat and DJ Amr 7a7a)
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(The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban)Sadat and Amr 7a7a made a "surprise" appearance at the Home Works 6 forum on May 15 in Beirut. "Unassailably cool," writes Jim Quilty in The Daily Star.Read more about Home Works and mahragan here....

20:22
Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): İstanbul’da Dünya Nehirler Konferansı
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İstanbul’da bugün Dünya Nehirler Konferansı yapıldı. Green New Media ekibinin tweetleriyle hazırladığım Dünya Nehirler Konferansı derlemesine buradan ulaşabilirsiniz. [View the story "Dünya Nehirler Konferansı" on Storify] Related posts: Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): Dersim katliamı İstanbul’da ve Dersim’de anıldı Serhatcan Yurdam: ...
18:17
Bulgarian truck drivers block traffic at the Turkey-Bulgaria border, Depeche Mode fans devastated in Istanbul…
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Headlines you don’t see every day: Disgruntled Bulgarian truckers keep British band from performing in Turkey Reuters brings us today’s reminder that the world is a confusing, intricately interconnected place: Disgruntled Bulgarian truck drivers blocked traffic at two major border ...

17:39
Ken Wark at Goldsmiths 23.5.2013
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Ken Wark - A (Post) Situationist, (Pre) Situationist Aesthetics A talk by Professor McKenzie Wark of the New School for Social Research, NYC McKenzie Wark The New School for Social Research There can of course be no such thing as a ...

17:18
Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): Türkiye’de ilk Vegan Onur Yürüyüşü
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Türkiye‘de ilk Vegan Onur Yürüyüşü İstanbul, Kadıköy‘de bugün yapılan Türkiye’deki ilk Vegan Onur Yürüyüşü’nün derlemesi… via [View the story "Türkiye'deki ilk vegan yürüyüşü" on Storify] Related posts: Serhatcan Yurdam: LGBT Onur Yürüyüşü Serhatcan Yurdam: Cihan Kırmızıgül’e ...
15:57
A roundup academicus: “Game-based learning: latest evidence and future directions, Elite Journals, SOPA’s daddy…
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Game-based learning: latest evidence and future directions Source: National Foundation for Educational Research (UK) From Press Release: The role of video games in teaching and learning is a source of debate among many educators, researchers and in the popular press. ...

14:59
Postcards from Ghadames, Libya
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Danza Caratteristica Above and below are postcards of scenes in Ghadames, Libya from the 1950s, when it was still a kingdom. Ingresso alla Citt`a Coperta...

14:55
MA Thesis: DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ACTIONS AND THE CHALLENGE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ON THE INTERNET
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DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE ACTIONS AND THE CHALLENGE OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ON THE INTERNET by Molly Sauter Related posts: and an act of civil disobedience start in Diyarbakır… Cablegate global roundup continues. WikiLeaks Distributed Data Graphic etc… A social roundup: ...
14:09
Reyhanlı’da göstericilere müdahale…
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[View the story "Reyhanlı'da müdahale... " on Storify] Related posts: Hatay’da göstericilere polis müdahalesi.. [Police violence against anti-war demonstrators in Hatay] #HatayAyakta Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): “6 Mayıs: Denizlerin anmasına gazlı müdahale” Geçen haftaki KESK eylemlerinden… [KESK demonstrations and police ...

13:01
The 'gratitude trap' where Hungarian patients keep falling
» ‎ ICCI Home

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As Rothstein argued at length in his book about the problem of social trust, institutions come in many different flavors: explicitly codified law systems, implicitly taken-for-granted exchange arrangements, and so on. Broadly speaking, they all constitute arrangements of some sort ...

9:26
The All-Time Stupidest Question to Ask a Language Learner: Did You Understand what He/She said????!!!!” (Repeated loudly)
» ‎ Ethnography.com

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I’ve been living in Germany for the last nine months. One of my goals is to improve my German skills, and guess what, I am getting better. But still my German is still far from perfect. Occasionally I will ...

5:06
Last but Not Least: Hacking the Academy–the Print and Ebook Editions
» ‎ Jason Baird Jackson

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I am pleased to note that the University of Michigan Press has now published the print and ebook editions of Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities. This volume was organized and edited by Daniel ...

2:48
Bess Price’s Speech to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
» ‎ AnthroYogini

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Go Bess Price Nungarrayi. In case you DON’T know who Bess is, she’s a Warlpiri woman from Yuendumu (in central Australia), who’s now been elected to our Legislative Assembly (that’s the NT’s parliament, in case you’re not sure). For many ...

0:33
Racist Park
» ‎ Language Log

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Liwei Jiao sent in a selection of signs from a Chinese website that was originally part of a collection assembled in the Daily Mail. We've seen most of these Chinglish signs before, and have already discussed several of them over ...

May 17, 2013
20:28
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the Academic Jobs Wiki”
» ‎ Sarah Kendzior

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The anthropology blog Savage Minds interviewed me last week on my career, the crisis in higher education and the role of anthropology in public life. An excerpt below, on grad students and the job market: Graduate students live in constant ...

19:00
Natural Language and the Social Sciences
» ‎ Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts

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For my current project, which automates an approach to understanding decision making processes of elites, first developed by Robert Axelrod in the 1970s, I make use of two newly developed computational linguistic tools (see my github profile). Rather than discussing ...

18:39
Verkiezingen in Pakistan: ‘revolutie’ bleef uit
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Closer Blog: Amer Morgahi over de recente verkiezingen in Pakistan gewonnen door Sharif die mikt op economische vooruitgang in het instabiele Pakistan.Read more: Verkiezingen in Pakistan: ‘revolutie’ bleef uit...

16:08
Who wants my job? Digital Designer at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Job Posting
» ‎ How to be an Anthropologist

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Are you an anthropologist and a web designer? Well I have a job for you! I am going back to school and quitting my job. That means that my position as digital designer at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is up for ...

15:33
Less than Desirable Review of “Desiring Arabs”
» ‎ tabsir.net

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Joseph Massad: an Occidentalist’s Other Subjects/Victims by S. Taha, The Arab Leftist Joseph Massad, an associate professor at Columbia University and a now prominent figure in the US academic field of Middle Eastern studies, came to acquire his status through ...

15:08
Misnegation of the week
» ‎ Language Log

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From the 5/16/2013 decision of the Third Circuit, invalidating an NLRB decision based on the argument that the "recess appointment" of one of the board's members was invalid: The "main purpose" of the Recess Appointments Clause, therefore, is not—as the ...
14:42
"Significance", in 1885 and today
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There's an ongoing argument about the interpretation of Katherine Baicker et al., "The Oregon Experiment — Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes", NEJM 5/2/2013, and one aspect of this debate has focused on the technical meaning of the word significant. ...

13:24
After all, Obama is cautious on Syria, not as excited as Turkish leaders…
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Turkey, the US and the Syrian crisis The United States’ take on the Syrian crisis is not that different than its take on the Arab uprisings. Obama-Erdoğan meet U.S. President Barack Obama hosted Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for ...

13:00
It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
» ‎ AAA blog

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Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the candidates for the undesignated seat ...

12:20
Anthro roundup: A good interview with Sarah Kendzior and more…
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Savage Minds Interview: Sarah Kendzior Sarah Kendzior is a writer for Al Jazeera English. She has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Washington University and researches the political effects of digital media in the former USSR. You can find her ...
10:55
Turkish State Television saved our morality again by not broadcasting this scene at Eurovision:
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More news in Turkish here. Related posts: Metalhead Diaries; A look at Turkish metal scene (In Turkish) Turkish state is male-dominated, any surprise? Eurovision times- Turkey gets the second place Turkish infant deaths most in Europe..Turkish state apparatus saves Taksim ...
10:31
Cengiz Aktar: Takrir-i Sükûn/Nükleer/Kamu İhale Yasası
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Takrir-i Sükûn Reyhanlı saldırısı üzerine daha çok düşüneceğiz. Hükümetin kriz idaresinde tercih ettiği haber ve bilgi karartması üzerine de… Cumhurbaşkanı üzerine düşeni yaptı. Taraf da öyle. An attempt at showing world energy usage types with a bar graph. (Meant to replace ...

9:48
Innocent face
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This is the allegedly libelous remark on Twitter that might cost Sally Bercow tens of thousands in damages: Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *Innocent face* How (you might ask) could it possibly be libelous simply to ask a question about ...

8:49
Eurosphere roundup: The New Sick Man of Europe, Hollande’s offensive…
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The New Sick Man of Europe: the European Union Source: Pew Research Center From Overview: The European Union is the new sick man of Europe. The effort over the past half century to create a more united Europe is now ...

5:24
グレイス世菜
» ‎ Visual Anthropology of Japan

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幸せ!...

3:42
It Just Wasn’t Me, Was It?
» ‎ AnthroYogini

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In my previous post, I wrote about the diagnosis of Bipolar II that I’d had, and a few of the reasons I’d left a workplace that I’d loved, and the dreadful story of what unfolded last year. Now it’s time ...

May 16, 2013
23:58
Does PCA Have Politics?
» ‎ Ethnography.com

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This morning, armchair scientist and noted fan of this blog, Razib Khan, decided it would be prudent to write about race. It comes by way of Khan issuing a corrective, of sorts, to Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Coates article is wonderful. ...

22:55
Cyberculture roundup: Four LulzSec hackers jailed…. Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Run For European Parliament… Google I/O Keynote
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Four LulzSec hackers have been jailed for up to 32 months each by a UK court Four members of the notorious LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced in London today following a number of high-profile hacks and DDoS attacks affecting ...

21:11
Links & Contents I Liked 76
» ‎ Aidnography - Development as anthropological object

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Hello all,Quite a range of interesting links (as you would expect...)! My move to Sweden and co-authored research on the development blogosphere lead right into more interesting links on American food aid, Canadian ODA and Kenyan anti-corruption efforts. There's more ...

20:19
Well, not much surprisingly Turkey, US agree al-Assad should go… while Turkey’s main opposition in a strage row with EU socialists…
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Turkey, US agree ‘al-Assad should go for a free Syria’ Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan and US President Obama say the boths sides have agreed Bashar al-Assad should leave his post for a transition in Syria. Obama and Turkish PM Erdogan ...
20:14
Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: “Çocuk gelin”de ortak tavır, ‘anadil’ gerekçe notuyla…
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Yeni anayasa süreci Mayıs’ta yeni Anayasa’yı yazım süreci birinci yılını doldurmuş olacak. Bu yeni bir anayasa yazılması için uzun bir süre değil Muhalefet Anayasanın değişmesini istemiyor Haber 10 Sivil Dayanışma Platformu Başkanı ve Akil İnsanlar Heyeti Doğu Anadolu grubunda yer ...
18:58
Turkey now finds the real culprit in Reyhanlı bombings: World’s reaction to Syria limited to rhetoric….
» ‎ Erkan in the Army now...

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We won’t let Syria chaos spill into Turkey: President Gül Turkish President Abdullah Gül vows at the site of the the deadly May 11 attacks in Reyhanlı that Syria’s chaos will stop at the frontier with Turkey Turkey’s Gul says ...

18:42
A new site
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Well, I think this site has just about run its course. I decided to go for something a little simpler and cleaner, so I am shifting to this site. But you can still find me on Savage Minds, and of ...

18:00
It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
» ‎ AAA blog

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Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the candidates for the linguistic seat ...

15:58
Shanghainese
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Just yesterday, in "The enigmatic language of the new Windows 8 ads", we saw how delicate and uncertain is the comprehension of forms of Chinese that one is not intimately familiar with. A significant part of the problem is the ...

15:15
Hope and Fear Documentary
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Hope and Fear: Egypt on the Tipping Point Kickstart the post-production of this Film! Go Deep: View Director’s Cut Trailer - HOPE & FEAR Long Trailer Get Deeper: HOPE & FEAR website - www.HOPEandFEARmovie.com HOPE & FEAR is unlike any ...

13:29
Social fabric roundup: AKP focuses on further alcohol restrictions while joblessness among young increases, child marriages remains to be high….
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Alcohol controversy mounts after Ottoman comparison The Parliament discussed a proposal that would further restrict alcohol sale. World alcoholic drinks leader Diageo concerned over sale restrictions Diageo has expressed concerns over planned alcohol restrictions in Turkey. ********************* Joblessness among young ...

13:28
Coach/therapist: 'What banks are offering people is an identity' | Joris Luyendijk
» ‎ Comment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk

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Karin Peeters, a life and executive coach working with bankers, talks about low self-esteem in the sector – and the problem with banker bashingMany readers have pointed out that the banking blog is inherently biased because it depends on volunteers. ...
13:27
Given how bankers appear to treat each other, should we be surprised they don't care for the rest of us? | Joris Luyendijk
» ‎ Comment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk

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That was what Joris Luyendijk asked, after hearing from Karin Peeters, who works with bankers. She was online to respond to your questionsWhat if it isn't coke-snorting hedonism or psychopathic sadism but rather deep emotional insecurity that drives many investment ...

13:15
And coming soon to a river frontage not so accessible to you…
» ‎ trinketization

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see the ‘welcome’ message: a huge amount of planning info is on the site: here is some from the recent consultation with you, the public. To view materials from previous consultations, please click on the links below: Exhibition materials February ...
13:01
The East India Company’s Deptford Shipyard
» ‎ trinketization

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The origins of many, although not all, of Britain’s Black and Asian population lie in British traders’ search for profit around the globe. Britain was responsible for uprooting millions of people from Africa and Asia and scattering them across the ...
12:58
Convoys Wharf
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For some time I’ve been collecting material on housing locally. Time to start sorting through it all. And as its been a while since I started a new topic/category on this blog, there is now one called ‘regeneration’. This is ...

10:29
Law against buying sex: Yawn, not even on the timeline
» ‎ The Naked Anthropologist

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Who cares about the law against buying sex? City, a free newspaper like Metro, ran a page recently on sex laws in Sweden. 17 steps to a softer vision of sex A lot has happened on the sex front in ...

9:33
Test Scores, Inequality, and “Goodnight Moon Time”
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Here is a recent article about test scores from the New York Times, “No Rich Child Left Behind.” They got through the entire article without connecting cognitive abilities to inherited intelligence. Instead, the connection is made to wealth, poverty, and ...

8:11
Body parts, emotions and associated lovely things
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I went to a brilliant seminar on the language of emotion in Dalabon by Maïa Ponsonnet yesterday. Dalabon is an endangered Gunwinyguan language spoken by less than twelve speakers in Arnhem Land. This is just a skip, hop, ...

2:00
Calling All Shutterbugs – The 2013 AAA Photo Contest
» ‎ AAA blog

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The AAA Photo Contest is designed to demonstrate the rich possibilities of anthropological work through photography. The impressive array of photos received in the past illustrates the diverse and exciting work anthropologists pursue, as well as the insights that AAA ...

May 15, 2013
21:46
Eurosphere roundup: Neo-Nazi trial, EU member states stand on bank bail-in plans, Cameron on EU exit…
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Neo-Nazi probe is a peerless failure: German report An interim parliamentary inquiry report called the National Socialist Underground (NSU) Neo-Nazi trial: Woman ‘part of kill squad’ German prosecutors May 14 charged that a woman at the center of a landmark ...
20:44
Document: Center for American Progress’ report on “Freedom of the Press and Expression in Turkey
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The issues of press freedom and freedom of expression in Turkey have for several years attracted a great deal of attention and provoked extensive debate both in Turkey and in other Western countries. Dozens of journalists critical of the government ...
20:20
PEW Research: The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society
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The complete file here Executive Summary A new Pew Research Center survey of Muslims around the globe finds that most adherents of the world’s second-largest religion are deeply committed to their faith and want its teachings to shape not only ...

19:18
Marx's "XI"th Thesis on Feuerbach is Not Explicit Enough.
» ‎ Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts

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Marx's "XI"th Thesis on Feuerbach is Not Explicit Enough. " XIPhilosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways. What is crucial, however, is to change it."(Theses on Feuerbach by Karl Marx, translated by Carl Manchester: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theses_on_Feuerbach ) The world ...

19:14
What Apple is really working on
» ‎ CultureBy - Grant McCracken

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I sat down to wonder what Apple is working on. I came to the conclusion that it's not a watch or a TV. It's a version of telepresence so good it will be a little like teleportation, so ...

18:34
Noh Mul Update: Belize Government Launches Investigation Of Maya Pyramid's Destruction
» ‎ The Subversive Archaeologist

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This story is everywhere on the news this morning. The latest: from the Jamaica Observer comes this report that, at the order of the government, Belizean Police have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the almost total destruction of the 60-m tall ...

18:19
Erdoğan to meet Obama. Syria seems to be main agenda… A FP roundup…
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Students protest Turkish Foreign Ministry A group of university students attempting to march on the Turkish Foreign Ministry… Economy to make mark in PM Erdoğan’s US visit Despite the heavy political agenda, Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan’s visit will also be ...

17:48
Docklands Cinema Club with CCS sun 26.5.2013
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) Sun 26 May, 2-4pm (15) Winner of the Best Actor and Best Screenplay awards at Cannes 2005, Tommy Lee Jones’ directorial debut follows the story of Pete Perkins, a ranch foreman in the high ...

17:20
"Community Policing" in the Oxford English Dictionary
» ‎ Anthropoliteia: the anthropology of policing

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Reblogged from Kevin Karpiak's Blog: Just happened to be looking this up today in the OED: community policing n. policing at a local or community level; spec. a system of policing by officers who have personal knowledge of and involvement ...

16:56
Hurtles and hurdles
» ‎ Language Log

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Nicholas Thompson, "Terrible News About Carbon and Climage Change", The New Yorker 5/12/2013: We’ve got more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than at any point since the Pliocene, when there were jungles in northern Canada. And the number hurdles ...

16:38
Scandals in journalism. “Bloomberg chief says data access inexcusable… AP-gate… A journalism roundup…
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Bloomberg chief says data access inexcusable Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, apologized for allowing journalists “limited” access to sensitive data AP leak put Americans ‘at risk,’ US Attorney General says The leak that prompted the seizure of a journalist ...
15:59
PUB 204 TV Geliyor! (#PUB204)
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Gizem Keskin hazırlamış: Bir günlük kurgu kanalımız Haziran başında yayında olacak… Related posts: Dijital Kültürler (#PUB204) dersinin final projesi: Bir günlük web televizyonu #pub204 (@bilgi_pr) finalinin 2. sorusuna da cevaplar geldi. hepsi burada: Pinleyen, anayasa yazan, tanıtım filmi çeken @bilgi_pr ...

15:24
Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
» ‎ Discard Studies

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Contagion, or the way disease, disgust and dirt circulates, how the effects of dirt transfer to bodies, and how harm is conceptualized, is central to discard studies. From miasma, through the germ theory of disease, and now for chronic, pervasive ...

14:10
Goldsmiths UCU and SU Rally against Austerity 15.5.2013
» ‎ trinketization

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Goldsmiths UCU and SU Rally against Austerity – (THURSDAY) 6pm In the light of our 0.8% pay offer – well below the rate of inflation In the light of today’s story about the impact of tuition fee rises (that many ...

14:00
It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
» ‎ AAA blog

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Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the candidates for theundesignated seat of ...

13:47
Metaphor and Design
» ‎ anthrostrategist

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“Metaphor is for most people device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish–a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. ...

11:39
Announcement: IAFOR Open Film Competition in Osaka, November 8-10, 2013
» ‎ Visual Anthropology of Japan

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The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) is inviting filmmakers from around the world to submit an original short film for the annual IAFOR Open Film Competition. Amateur and professionals are welcome to enter, however entrants are limited to just one submission for ...

9:00
The moral maze: Dutch Salafis and the construction of a moral community of the faithful
» ‎ C L O S E R

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Closer Blog: My article in the special issue of Contemporary Islam on Moral Ambiguities and Muslim Lives: The moral maze: Dutch Salafis and the construction of a moral community of the faithful.Read more: The moral maze: Dutch Salafis and the ...

8:02
Do We Care?
» ‎ tabsir.net

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Scene after a massacre in a coastal Syrian village on May 4 Do we care? When the news media report yet another attack on civilians in Syria (or Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere outside of Boston and New York), do ...

7:37
Inter-disciplinary Work Sounds Exhausting
» ‎ Ethnography.com

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We have had a good week on Ethnography.com grappling with the diffrerences between the Social Sciences, and the Cognitive Sciences. Last month it was the Social Sciences and Population Genetics. I am of course a Social Scientist, and much more ...

5:49
The enigmatic language of the new Windows 8 ads
» ‎ Language Log

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Everybody has been puzzling over the language of the series of online ads for Windows 8 that it recently released in Asia. Seattle Times: "Those weird and wacky Windows 8 ads: What language are they in?" Forbes: "Microsoft's Asian Windows ...

3:06
futian village
» ‎ Shenzhen Noted

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After several months, I return to my synopsis of The Great Transformation (沧海桑田：深圳村庄三十年). This episode is about Futian Village (富田村), which begins raising the counterintuitive question of why Walmart would build a megastore in Futian Village. The underlying message of...

May 14, 2013
20:42
Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam): Avrupa Günü’nde Flag Wavers’dan bayraklarla dans gösterisi
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9 Mayıs Avrupa Günü kapsamında yapılan Taksim’deki etkinliklere İtalyan gösteri grubu Flag Wavers katıldı. Flag Wavers, Taksim Meydanı’nda bayraklarla dans gösterisi yaptı. Gösteride çektiğim fotoğraflarla hazırladığım foto-slide’ı buradan izleyebilirsiniz. Foto-slide’ı HD kaliteyle ful ekran izlemek için YouTube kanalımı ziyaret edebilirsiniz. Related posts: ...

19:11
the nostalgist
» ‎ xirdalium

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↑CIMINI, GIACOMO. t.b.a. ↑The Nostalgist [short film]. London: Wonder Room Productions. WILSON, DANIEL H. 2009. ↑The Nostalgist. Tor.com 28 July 2009. Available online. via ↑entry at ↑boingboing share this post...

18:23
Newt Gingrich, Whorfian theorist
» ‎ Language Log

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Barbara Scholz died exactly two years ago today. Had she lived, I would have been drawing her attention to Newt Gingrich's latest YouTube video "We're Really Puzzled". Not because she would have liked this latest Gingrichian piece of Republican-oriented self-promotion ...

16:58
High-end Coffee and Maya Farmers in Guatemala
» ‎ Anthropological Observations . . . on economics, politics, and daily life

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As with fine wine, provenance and terroir have become key elements of value in the world of high-end coffee. Like wine, coffee’s complex flavor profile is especially sensitive to climate, moisture, and soil conditions; and the highest priced coffees are ...

16:09
Alice Kober’s belated obituary
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Yesterday’s New York Times features a much-belated obituary of Alice Kober, a professor of classics at Brooklyn College who in the late 1940s played a central preliminary role in the decipherment of the Linear B (Mycenaean Greek) script. Although she ...

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It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
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Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the candidates for the archaeology seat ...

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Reyhanlı bombings. Conspiracies abound. Media blackout doesn’t help…
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Head of accused group denies responsibility, blames Israel for Reyhanlı bomb attack Former leader of the the organization that was accused for the recent twin blasts that killed ******************** Reyhanlı bombings show importance of Turkey’s EU bid Last week I ...

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Aidnography will be moving to Sweden!
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I am very, very excited about joining Malmö University’s School of Arts and Communication as a Senior Lecturer in Communication for Development! I am joining a fantastic and truly multi-disciplinary team of colleagues who have been involved in teaching and ...

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Juniorprofessur
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www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de Viel Erfolg! ...

14:00
Pew Survey on World’s Muslims
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The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, April 30, 2013 Executive Summary A new Pew Research Center survey of Muslims around the globe finds that most adherents of the world’s second-largest religion ...

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Cem Pelister (@cempelister): EGE’YE DERS: AKHİSAR BELEDİYE GENÇLİK SPOR
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EGE’YE DERS AKHİSAR BELEDİYE GENÇLİK SPOR Futbolun oyun olmaktan çıkıp iğrenç bir hale dönüştüğü bugünlerde gelin Ege’den yükselen bir güneşin resmini hep beraber çizelim. Akhisar Belediye; Süper Lig’e çıkmasına ihtimal verilmediği geçtiğimiz sezon PTT 1.Lig’de Şampiyon olarak en büyüklerin ...

11:38
Solidarity with those on strike at Uni of Sydney! Stop police brutality!
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† Around Australia, thousands of students (seemingly concentrated in Melbourne and Sydney) went on strike and rallied and marched today, in protest at the cuts ($2.3 billion) by the Federal government to the tertiary education sector. Their protests ...

11:33
Cengiz Aktar: Anamuhalefet BDP
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Anamuhalefet BDP Türkiye’nin değişiminin iki ana taşıyıcısından biri siyasî İslâm, diğeri Kürt siyasetidir. Çünkü her ikisi de erken cumhuriyet tasavvurunun ‘şekavet ve irtica’ (bölücülük ve gericilik) yaftasıyla gayrimeşrulaştırdığı ve kamusal alandan tardettiği kitlelerin sesidirler. Bu karalisteye sesleri yok edilmiş olan ...

8:51
Article: Digitale Medientechnologien aus kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Perspektive
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Budka, P. 2013. Digitale Medientechnologien aus kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Perspektive: Überlegungen zu Technologie als materielle Kultur und Fetisch (Digital media technologies from an anthropological perspective: Thoughts on technology as material culture and fetish). Medien und Zeit, 28, 1/2013. Online-Version. Abstract Dieser ...

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Campbell’s Law and the Fallacies of Standardized Testing
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Donald Campbell was one of the leading psychologists of the second half of the twentieth century. His was a time of optimism for planners—there was a belief that the power of technology could be brought to bear on many of ...

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Mrinal Sen Films
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Mrinal Sen films via the youtube site – mostly with Eng subtitles, one with Spanish. Happy birthday comrade Sen (90*), it was a pleasure to meet you (circa 1992). The Case is Closed / Kharij (English) Mrinal Sen. Indiaby ImagineIndiaFilmFestFEATURED2,309 1:45:30KHANDHAR ...
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Mrinal Sen 90
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Mrinal Sen is 90 today (May 14 2013) and all the best to him. I would argue that he is the greatest living film director, bare none.This YouTube page has some films by and on Sen: [www.youtube.com] Abhijit). I will ...

May 13, 2013
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Thesis Excerpt: Introduction to Chapter 7
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In previous chapters I have explored how concepts of affect play out in everyday social relations; how they shape the way people consider issues of morality, and motivate certain culturally recognised and recognisable forms of interpersonal and ...

22:39
Eurosphere roundup: “Six years requested for Berlusconi
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Six years requested for Berlusconi Italian prosecutors seek a six-year sentence for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for paying for sex with an underage girl. Cameron struggles to contain Eurosceptics With polling showing the EU is low on the list ...

21:02
Noh Mul Stands No More After Being Mined For Road-Building Gravel!!!!
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Screen grab from the movie Star Wars, filmed on-location at Tikal, Péten Basin, GuatemalaI don't know what it says about me, but the first thought that came to my mind was something the character Obi-Wan Kenobi said when an entire ...

20:35
Dijital Kültürler (#PUB204) dersinin final projesi: Bir günlük web televizyonu
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Sınıfça bir günlük bir Web TV kuralım dedik. Herşey kurgu… reklamından, haberlerine, envai çeşit programına- kamu spotu dahil- kadar Mayıs ayının sonuna kadar projeler bitecek. Haziran başında daha sonra ilan edeceğimiz bir platformda tüm gün sürecek bir web yayını yapacağız… ...
19:03
Burak Yıldırım, latest victim in fan violence… A social fabric roundup…
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Burak Yıldırım One killed, 122 detained in football tensions, title celebrations delayed A supporter was stabbed to death and more than 100 fans were detained on May 12 as the violence. ************************* Can’t help ‘Beliebing:’ Fandom and pop stars from ...

18:00
Anthro in the news 5/13/13
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• Go directly to jail: Prison sentence for Guatemalan dictator Official site. Many major news media covered the sentencing of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt to a landmark 80 years in prison for genocide and crime against humanity. ABC ...

17:22
Don’t save the contradictory seals
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“In the end, the biggest problem with green consumerism may be that it acts as a smokescreen, creating the impression that people are taking environmental issues seriously while allowing them to continue their lives as usual.” Lee and English 2011 ...

17:01
Big Data Needs Thick Data
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Editor’s Note: Tricia provides an excellent segue between last month’s “Ethnomining” Special Edition and this month’s on “Talking to Companies about Ethnography.” She offers further thoughts building on our collective discussion (perhaps bordering on obsession?) with the big data trend. ...

17:01
Cyberculture roundup: Twitter, Facebook to pay tax in Turkey… ‘Geography of Hate’ in Twitter mapped in US…
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Twitter, Facebook to pay tax in Turkey The Turkish Finance Ministry has sped up its work to collect taxes from the online advertising market. ‘Geography of Hate’ Maps Racist, Homophobic, Ableist Tweets Twitter has the capacity to ignite revolutions ...

16:00
It’s time to vote in the 2013 Elections
» ‎ AAA blog

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Cast your vote by logging in to AnthroGateway, click on the “My Information” page, and then click on the “Vote Now!” button. This month we’ll take a look at the candidates. Today’s feature are the candidates for the cultural seat ...

15:45
Zabıtalar ve biber gazı
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Bunları kaçırmışım…. Geçen yıl bir takım hazırlıklar yapılmış:) bir de bu var: Şanlıurfa’da, çevik kuvvet ekipleri toplumsal olaylara müdahale konusunda zabıta personeline uygulamalı eğitim verdi…. Related posts: İnönüye veda öncesi biber gazına maruz kalma yaşı 2′ye kadar düştü… Cengiz Aktar: ...

15:30
Bedtime for Bibi
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Austerity and sequestration are the dismal economic buzzwords of the day. While thousands of airline passengers in the United States waited for late flights due to a lack of air traffic controllers, and while tens of thousands of Israelis protested ...

15:04
Perry Link on Chinese "rhythm, metaphor, politics"
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One reason that I was so interested in San Duanmu's work on Chinese "elastic words" is that I'm in the middle of reading Perry Link's recent book An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics. From the introduction: In the fall of ...

14:59
More than 200 dead in Reyhanlı bombings, claims RedHack, the hacker group…
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https://twitter.com/RedHack_EN/status/333555584991387648 After bombings,Turkey says world must act against Syria By Jonathon Burch REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey accused a group with links to Syrian intelligence of carrying out car bombings that killed 46 people in a Turkish border town, and ...
14:37
EFD Rights Watch: Excessive Pepper Gas usage… RedHack not a ‘terrorist group,’ prosecutors rule…
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Police, Beşiktaş fans clash before last game and victory in historic Istanbul stadium Fans of Istanbul’s Beşiktaş football team and police clashed only hours before the last gameat the to-be-demolished İnönü Stadium. BIA Media Monitoring 2012 / Full Text from ...

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Prosody and "elastic words" in Chinese
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During my recent visit to Michigan, San Duanmu told me about some really neat work that he published last year as "Word-length preferences in Chinese: a corpus study", Journal of East Asian Linguistics 21.1: 89-114, 2012. San starts from the observation ...

12:38
‘Detritivore’ Design: How to Use Trash to Create Scalable Tech Solutions- Mathew Lippincott
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Guest post by Mathew Lippincott. Originally posted on Mediashift’s Idea Lab. Detritivores are creatures that consume decaying matter. Detritivore designs use abundant waste products to make scalable technology solutions. Unlike loftier concepts of zero-waste design such as Cradle to Cradle, Detritivore design ...

11:54
Eurosphere roundup: “Ousted PM Borisov secures slim victory in Bulgaria election…Official list of English words misused in EU documents…
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Ousted PM Borisov secures slim victory in Bulgaria election, fresh protests erupt Bulgarian ousted premier Boyko Borisov‘s party came first in tense elections but fell short of a majority, exit polls showed. Turkish minority MRF party beats threshold. Europe’s bold ...

11:13
Smirk or shambles.
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Guardian May 13 2013 Filed under: ✪ what's on, education...

11:09
Motherhood Across Cultures
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The Toronto Star discusses the research of Jennifer Lansford, a professor of psychology and cultural anthropology at Duke University. Lansford conducts cross-cultural research on motherhood. “Universally, one of the key tasks of motherhood is to make children feel loved, accepted ...

7:15
A note to Evolutionary Psychologists: Culture and science are two sides of the same coin
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by Maximilian Holland There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination (Dennett 1995) An inherent feature of the practice of observation in empirical science is its dependence ...

May 12, 2013
23:49
Comparative shopping (piston engines on special)
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source:� [www.antiimperialista.org] Filed under: capitalism...

22:04
Turkey is just fine but “worried about ‘rising xenophobia’ in Europe.. A FP roundup…
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Turkey worried about ‘rising xenophobia’ in Europe Turkey’s foreign minister voiced concern Sunday about rising anti-foreigner sentiment in crisis-hit Europe, on a visit to Germany where a neo-Nazi cell’s bloody murder spree claimed mostly Turkish migrants among its victims. Foreign ...

17:10
The killing of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki
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For a brief introduction to a report on the killing of the 16-year old son of Anwar al-Awlaki, check out this brief Youtube video. Here are the details on the video: Watch the full 50-minute interview with Jeremy Scahill at ...

17:02
In case of pigs and poultry…
» ‎ Language Log

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Reader J.W.J. sent in a link to "A brief list of misused English terminology in EU publications", a document to be found on the web site of the European Commission under the heading of "Translation and Drafting Resources". Though perhaps ...
15:47
Unknown Language #7: update
» ‎ Language Log

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In "Unknown Language #7", I described the case of a woman in a refugee center in Kathmandu, Nepal who spoke in an unidentifiable tongue and who wrote in an odd mixture of languages and scripts. The post generated a large ...

15:26
St. Louis and the American Dream
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For Al Jazeera English, I have a new article on my adopted city of St. Louis. An excerpt: In St. Louis, you can buy a mansion for $275,000. It has twelve bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a three-bedroom carriage house, and is ...

14:38
riot notes –
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This is a rough page of old notes from the work that became Tom and my article on a years worth of riot-chatter. The article was published in the Journal of Cultural Research (2012) here. Today I am updating this for ...

13:44
Neurocriminology, Meet Human Development
» ‎ Neuroanthropology

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These are two lines of research that will hopefully increasingly merge… Neurocriminologist Adrian Raine’s new book The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime presents a biological approach to criminal behavior, but a biology that increasingly recognizes developmental and ...

13:14
Annals of algorithmic communication
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Yesterday afternoon, I got this interesting email message: The departure time for US Airways flight # 3314, from Detroit to Philadelphia on May 11 at 6:05 PM has changed. The flight is delayed due to air traffic at the destination ...

12:32
Turkish Gov’t has been quick to find the culprit in Reyhanlı bombings: Assad’s hand…
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Turkey sees Assad’s hand in bombings, warns of border tensions By Jonathon Burch REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey said on Sunday it believed fighters loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were behind twin car bombings that killed 46 people in ...

11:25
Language change in progress – us and our Red Sox buddies
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Just now I was washing breakfast dishes and mentally composing a Facebook post, which started out “Last night was not a good night for Orioles – Red Sox – anti-Yankees fans! The three way tie for first place got broken ...

9:53
Naked musings on borders, illegality and personal identity
» ‎ The Naked Anthropologist

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Last week at Gatwick airport, after asking me several apparently random questions presumably intended to trip me up, the official wagged my passport at me frustratedly. I knew what he wanted to ask but couldn’t: Damn it, who are you? ...

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The Not So Secret World of British Sharia Councils
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Closer Blog: A few days ago BBC’s Panorama aired an undercover report on the so-called British sharia councils. The program was pitched as an exposé of the secrets of British sharia councils. The program wasn’t as revealing as it suggested.Read ...

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