A Cultural Epidemiology of Monsters?
A new book by the archeologist David Wengrow: The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Princeton U.P.)The blurb: It has often been …
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The Phylogeny of ATU 333 (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood)
An interesting, methodologically innovative paper by Jamie Terhani in PLoS One on the phylogeny of “Little Red Riding Hood.”Abstract: Researchers have long been fascinated by the strong continuit…
Wildcat Way Promo Video
A little promo produced by Kansas State University
Practices of political news production and consumption on Facebook’s news feed
Since its beginning, the Internet’s potential to disseminate information broadly and easily has been hailed as a great democratizing force. Today, this idealist vision has somewhat deteriorated,…
News Online
With it being so easy to find a news article online in a split second, you’d think that this was a great benefit of the technological advances of…