Why Ello.co is a bad idea
5 years is a long time in terms of the internet. Let’s assume that you have been on the it during this period. Chances are quite high that…
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Why Ello.co is a bad idea
5 years is a long time in terms of the internet. Let’s assume that you have been on the it during this period. Chances are quite high that…
From Sligo to the Big Apple
One hundred years ago, in October 1914, Irish fiddle player Michael Coleman left his native County Sligo to travel to America. He first got work performing at music…
30% off Materializing Poverty
Rollup, rollup! AltaMira have just sent me discount flyers for my book. If you were considering buying it but were holding off because of the price, now’s the…
The Global South Shapes the Future of Money
This week we post the YouTube video of Prof. Supriya Singh’s lecture “The Global South Shapes the Future of Money”, delivered in Pretoria on 19 August 2014. Supriya…
Linguistic violence | 语言暴力
I was reading through 《平台魅力与舞台诱惑》 (Platform Glamour and Stage Lure: The Actors in China’s Internet Communication, edited by Yang Boxu and Xu Hong, 2011) when I came across…
Wearables: Three issues for Insurance to try on for size
A supplement in The Times newspaper has quoted from my analysis of the potential of wearables to change the way the insurance industry works. I’ve published the analysis…
Wearables: Three issues for Insurance to try on for size
A supplement in The Times newspaper has quoted from my analysis of the potential of wearables to change the way the insurance industry works. I’ve published the analysis…
Wearables: Three issues for Insurance to try on for size
A supplement in The Times newspaper has quoted from my analysis of the potential of wearables to change the way the insurance industry works. I’ve published the analysis…
Wearables: Three issues for Insurance to try on for size
A supplement in The Times newspaper has quoted from my analysis of the potential of wearables to change the way the insurance industry works. I’ve published the analysis…
Birth by the Numbers Update
Eugene Declerq and the team at Birth by the Numbers have very recently updated their statistics and their video! Two years ago I posted the video Birth by the…
Birth by the Numbers Update
Eugene Declerq and the team at Birth by the Numbers have very recently updated their statistics and their video! Two years ago I posted the video Birth by the…
Birth by the Numbers Update
Eugene Declerq and the team at Birth by the Numbers have very recently updated their statistics and their video! Two years ago I posted the video Birth by the…
Birth by the Numbers Update
Eugene Declerq and the team at Birth by the Numbers have very recently updated their statistics and their video! Two years ago I posted the video Birth by the…
Humans as a Playful Species w/ Michael D’Angelo, Host of Old School Game Show – This Anthro Life
Join us for our funnest episode yet! Amy, Aneil, Ryan and Adam Exploring humans as a playful species through the world of gameshows, trivia, and popular culture –…
Scotland: the Fight for Independence Continues
By John Bryden In the end, we Scots did not win our independence from England last week, as 45% of the electorate voted ‘YES’ while 55% voted ‘NO’…
New Book: Methods for the Study of Religious Change – From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies
Methods for the Study of Religious Change – From Religious Studies to Worldview Studies Edited by: André Droogers and Anton van Harskamp 2013 224pp 234 x 156mm pb…
App-ography: A critical perspective on medical and health apps
All My Apps by alf eaton + Anatomical Position by Connexions I have been thinking and writing about mobile apps recently and how they are used for medical…
Is protection against online surveillance possible?
After the spying scandals of NSA and their European partner organizations, the question of how to product oneself and who to protect oneself from has become a primary…
Is protection against online surveillance possible?
After the spying scandals of NSA and their European partner organizations, the question of how to product oneself and who to protect oneself from has become a primary…
Scotland Needs a Cultural Revolution
Loyalist supporters of union with the UK The Queen of England has welcomed the Scottish referendum results from her castle in Balmoral, and Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond,…
The Facebook Experiment: Cow-Sociology, Redux
Once having arrived at a set (or sets) of defensible moral positions, social psychologists should better be able to educate those outside the field concerning appropriate ethical criteria…
Graduation day
I’ve now had the Ph.D. in hand for about three weeks. It is in a large brown folder. It looks pretty official. There is, if anything, something incongruous about the…
Call for Managing Editor for the Anthropology of Consciousness Jounral
CALL FOR MANAGING EDITOR Anthropology of Consciousness DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: December 15, 2014 The Executive Board of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness is now inviting…