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Below are recent tweets from a selection of CLAS FacultyCatherine Qualtrough
- Oh, I'm sure this will go well :-/ --> Deep sea 'gold rush' moves closer bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… 13 hours ago
Nicole D. Peterson
- Applied anthropologists at work - a new blog series. amysantee.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/anthro… 4 days ago
- Great new term: NIMTOF not in my term of office. Thanks, Howard Kunreuther and CRED.columbia.edu 1 week ago
- @jbhathaw Exactly. We've been seeing the influence of framing for a while on environmental behaviors, this is just a very nice example. 1 week ago
Greg Weeks
- ok, the blog link again weeksnotice.blogspot.com/2013/05/maduro… 1 hour ago
- ugh, just deleted my blog post by mistake. Time to rewrite. 1 hour ago
- blog: Maduro knows your vote weeksnotice.blogspot.com/2013/05/maduro… #Venezuela 1 hour ago
Min Jiang
- #Beirut - Rainbow stairway http://t.co/c40rkA7l3J 18 hours ago
- Imagining the future - Living Room in the Future from 1973 by #AntFarm http://t.co/ORwoQxmX6D 18 hours ago
- #Beirut #Art #FlyBirdFly -The human condition http://t.co/sjgic1Vsrm 18 hours ago
Robin James
- New, v rough blog on Rousseau's Essay & why understanding the musical argument to understand the philosophical one its-her-factory.blogspot.com/2013/05/on-rou… 16 hours ago
- gonna try and finish this Rousseau post on why philosophers misread Rousseau bc they don't understand musical stakes of his argument. 18 hours ago
Maduro Knows Your Vote
Discipline: Social SciencesApparently having one of the “best voting systems in the world” means that the government knows who you voted for! At least that is the case in Venezuela, where Nicolás Maduro announced that he knows the identities of the 900,000 chavistas who did not vote for him. Here is the YouTube clip.
To say this is a threat to democracy is an understatement. One of the biggest political problems for Maduro are the people who claim to support him, then vote for the opposition in the privacy of…More →
Inquiries: Venezuela
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On Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages: unless you realize this is about the overtone series, you probably misread Rousseau’s argument
Discipline: Humanities
So, this post is really rough and sorely in need of editing, but I need to get it up and running for my Phil of Music course, which starts Monday. In some ways it’s a tl;dr of one of the chapters of The Conjectural Body…
“Note how everything constantly brings us back to the moral effects about which I have spoken, and how far the musicians who account for the impact of sounds solely in terms of the action of air and the excitation of nerve fibers are from understanding wherein the…More →
Inquiries: body reasoning, essay on the origin of languages, harmony, melody, overtone series, Rameau, rousseau, social identity
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The Tailor of Panama
Discipline: Social SciencesJohn le Carré clearly had a lot of fun writing The Tailor of Panama, which is spy novel as farce. If you don’t want spoilers then stop reading, because it’s hard not to discuss it without giving it away. Not, mind you, that it is particularly intricate. There is a nod to Graham Greene’s Our Man in Panama, which le Carré makes explicit in the acknowledgements.
Harry Pendel is a British tailor in Panama City in the 1990s, and a British spy shows up at his door to recruit him. The spy has…More →
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The Missing Key to Understanding Christian Origins: A Forgotten Brother
Discipline: HumanitiesSomething of which I am more and more convinced is the paramount importance of James the brother of Jesus to the very survival of the Messianic movement in the critical months and years following the tragic and brutal murders of both John the Baptist and Jesus. I present my extended argument for that idea in [...]…More →
Inquiries: Biblical Expositions, Christian Origins, Dead Sea Scrolls, James Brother of Jesus, Jesus Dynasty, Jewish Christianity
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Evolution of WHINSEC
Discipline: Social SciencesI’ve spent a few days at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. For quite a while, I had been wanting to do a follow up (a sequel, if you will) on an article I published in 2003, which was based on two trips I made here in 2002. That was very soon after the switch from School of the Americas, and I wanted to know how it had evolved since. As with the work I did over a decade ago, I wanted to do so by looking at the structure of the institution and the courses it offers. Conceptually,…More →
Inquiries: U.S.-Latin American relations
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The Giant’s Shoulders #59 is out!
Discipline: Natural Sciences
I hereby declare that the 59th edition of The Giant’s Shoulders, the history of science blog carnival, is up at Something by Virtue of Nothing! This edition, centered around the theme of the Antikythera Mechanism, includes posts about:
Did Isaac Newton slash the portrait of Robert Hooke?
The Haunt of the Resurrection Men!
Views of the dangers of masturbation for women,
The weirdest weapons of history,
and much more!
Many thanks to the hosts for an excellent carnival! …
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A gallery of my fantasy miniatures
Discipline: Natural Sciences
Time for a little break from physics and fiction! Though I haven’t been very active recently, for many years I was a hardcore gamer, playing both role-playing game and board games. In fact, I credit much of my early aptitude in mathematics to the amount of time I spent crunching numbers in Dungeons & Dragons.
I’m hoping to get back into some more gaming at my local game store, but I’m also planning to get back into painting fantasy miniatures. For…
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Summer Productivity
Discipline: Social SciencesDuring the school year, when I’m working nights and weekends just to keep up with teaching and service duties, I always think the summer is going to be full of butterflies and kittens while works of brilliance shoot out of my fingers into my laptop. I imagine high impact papers flowing quickly and easily from my brain to the editor’s desk to be met with tears of joy at the recognition of the brilliance I have shared. I also imagine happy children in a clean house…
Inquiries: News
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FDI and Commodities
Discipline: Social SciencesAccording to ECLAC, there is a lot of Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America, even as global FDI has slowed. It’s great, right? Investor confidence, stability, growth, good things like that. Well, sort of.
According to the report, FDI is increasingly aimed at exploiting natural resources, particularly in South America. The importance of manufacturing is limited except in Brazil and Mexico.
Right back to square one. Or just still at square one, really. This investment…More →
Inquiries: Latin America
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Researcher Expands Knowledge of What Motivates, Deters Burglars
Discipline: News
One way to understand what motivates and deters burglars is to ask them.
UNC Charlotte researcher Joseph Kuhns from the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology did just that. He led a research team that gathered survey responses from more than 400 convicted offenders that resulted in an unprecedented look into the minds of burglars, providing insight into intruders’ motivations and methods.
The study, “Understanding Decisions to Burglarize from the Offender’s…
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