Common Brain Mechanisms in Mental Illness
An important new meta-analysis of brain imaging research came out this week in JAMA Psychiatry, “Identification of a Common Neurobiological Substrate for Mental Illness” which highlights t…
Tag: Society
Applied Anthropology as Limit
Of late I’ve been saying that the constraints that come with applied work are useful for doing good theoretical and empirical work. Just as experimental models bring demands…
Chinese queries | 百度一下
屌丝一个: “Seriously speaking, is 100 wan enough to get out of China?” 飞飞: “You Baidu yixia first, see which country is a bit more reliable” Failed suggestion for…
quantification prescribing interaction
Artist and composer ↑Ben[jamin] Grosser, currently teaching at the School of Art & Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, two days ago has published his fine article “&da…
Oppression, Mental Health, and the House Science Committee
By Steven Folmar, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Anthropology, Wake Forest University On September 15 of this year, I learned from my Program Officer at the N…
berners-lee on snowden
It’s been almost eight years that I ↵last quoted ↑Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, here at xirdalium. On 1st August 2006 I republished the following…
Why I’m also quite glad I studied social anthropology
I said earlier that I regret studying social anthropology, and this is still true. It wasn't the best choice. But it wasn't a total waste of time either,…
Dissertation – an anthropologists dream or nightmare?
I may be alone in actually choosing to do a degree for the sole purpose of being able to do a dissertation – our curriculum and what one…