Wednesday Round Up #13
Octavia Butler on How (Not) to Choose Our Leaders Again and again, Butler cautions against the blindness of choosing from a state of heightened emotion — the very…
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Wednesday Round Up #12
The Conscience of Silicon Valley I said I was particularly interested in his most recent work, 2018’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, which…
Wednesday Round Up #11
What a Korean Teenage Fashion Trend Reveals About the Culture of Mask-Wearing In 2009, you could immediately spot the cool kids at my middle school in Seoul based…
Wednesday Round Up #10
The Big Melt As Serreze makes clear, the Arctic climate system is now entering uncharted territory, with the computer models no longer providing a reliable guide to the…
Wednesday Round Up #9
When the Culture Wars Hit Fort Wayne In-depth reporting from Politico – the intersecting histories and politics in one midwestern city. And as I visited Oklahoma, it became…
Wednesday Round Up #8
The Flawed Reasoning Behind the Replication Crisis This is why better theory and a wider range of evidence and samples matter (both of which anthropology can provide) –…
Wednesday Round Up #7
Laughter is vital Laughter, wrote Bergson, had ‘a knack of baffling every effort, of slipping away and escaping only to bob up again, a pert challenge flung at…
Wednesday Round Up #6
USA’s flag-bearer Simone Biles holds her country’s national flag during the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro on…
Wednesday Round Up #5
An Interview with the Editor of American Anthropologist about the March 2020 Cover Controversy We know the role that anthropology has played in the erasure of Indigenous peoples…
Wednesday Round Up #4
Wednesday Round Up #4 Ten Years of the Sun in One Hour – a beautiful and eerie watch of the centerpiece of our solar system Why Birds Can…
Wednesday Round Up #3
Wednesday Round Up #3 “Decolonize Maiz” is art work by Ernesto Yerena. You can purchase it from the Saguaro Gallery. Black Lives Matter: How the movement that’s changing…
Wednesday Roundup #2
Tyrone B. Hayes on how racism works in the academy. Hayes also was featured in the New Yorker for his groundbreaking work on how manufactured chemicals negatively impact…
Wednesday Round Up #1
I’m starting the Wednesday round up back up. I didn’t post yesterday because of #shutdownstem. For more information on that, see shutdownstem.com. In the wake of the most…
Flattening the Mental Health Curve: Answers Already in Hand
Covid has impacted mental health. So too has police violence. And we still operate from a model where we have to go someplace to access individual care. Many…
Maps, Figurative Symbols, and Songlines
When I think of symbols, I default to a rather literal sense of them. In my Introduction to Anthropology class, I put up the symbol for radiation, say…