Sound research
My last post was perhaps something of a rant, so this one will be more positive. One need only the barest acquaintance with me to know my enthusiasm for radio. I’ve recently heard two...
Tagged: research
The new eugenics
For the last day or so, among the most emailed articles on the New York Times website was a feature in Science Times about a new book by Gregory Clarke called A Farewell to...
“From Russia with Love” (or, “Aleks debunks 007”)
So contrary to James Bond movies and other popular portrayals of Russia these days, people don’t drive tanks around downtown St Petersburg, they don’t drink vodka 24-7, and they don’t talk to each other...
Air-raids, looting, oral histories–and a lesson about Wikipedia
In Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik’s excellent book about his time as an American living in Paris, he has a chapter on how French people whom he interviewed (he’s a writer for the...
Greetings from the scrub
For the past six months I’ve been working as an avian ecology intern at a vibrant, wonderful biological station in (not so vibrant, wonderful) south-central Florida. In exactly one week I’ll be packing up...
Dispatches from a bar in The Hague, The Netherlands, international city of peace, justice, and other warm-fuzzies we love
I can’t say my summer job lends itself as easy to parody as Nicola’s (an excellent post). I have spent the past month and a half now (on USP money, thanks, Tori) doing sundry...
Scripts, memory, war, and disaster
I seem to be the only one posting on this Uni blog, but I don’t want to dominate things. Let me start by encouraging others to post comments on previous posts and to make...
Thoughts about empire
In the introduction to Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, author Laura Briggs goes on something of a tangent about the constitutional status of Puerto Rico vis-a-vis the United...
Greetings from the Explosion City
After a splendid, two-week vacation in China and some time recuperating from having a wisdom tooth extracted, I’m now in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I spend my says (six of them a week), in...
