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Greetings from Monterey, CA [1] - 14 hours ago
Greetings from Monterey, California and the 20th Anniversary Conference of the James Martin Center...
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More on Britain's Independent Deterrent [1] - 20 hours ago
Last winter, after a visit to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston — the Los Alamos or...
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Naysayers and Defenders of Arms Control [6] - yesterday
Our son has introduced me to Drive By Truckers – a great band, but I’d be disinclined to rent them...
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Cities in the 21st Century: A Primer - 2 months ago
Cities: A Groundwork Guide. by John Lorinc US: Groundwood Books, 2009. 140pp., $10.00. UK:...
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Afghanistan and the UK's Desperate Flirtation With America - 2 months ago
Increasingly, the British public seems to be adopting the view that the war in Afghanistan is either...
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The Hurt Locker: a new kind of war film - 3 months ago
The Hurt Locker has already garnered the epithet of ‘first great Iraq war movie’ since...
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The Next Big Human Security Campaign? - yesterday
Blogging will be light over the next few days as I'm traveling to conduct focus groups with global...
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Obama's Afghan Plan - 2 days ago
Foreign Policy covers "the world's reaction" to Obama's West Point speech last night on his troop...
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2010 Grawemeyer winner - 3 days ago
Trita Parsi, who heads the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), has won the 2010 Grawemeyer...
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Discours d’Obama: et maintenant? (mis à jour) - yesterday
Dans le discours prononcé mardi à l’Académie militaire de West Point, le président Obama a...
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LINKS: 3 DEC 09 - 23 hours ago
Some utterly random items (and thoughts) that may be of interest:Elizabeth Warren: America without...
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Wednesday Round Up #92 - 2 days ago
This week it’s music, anthropology and mind once we get the highlights out of the way. Top of...
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Coffee Thursday @ 10:00AM at the AAAs - 4 days ago
I’m leaving for Philadelphia and the annual American Anthropological Association meeting on...
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Complete this quote: “Our cherished belief…has not prevented us from…” - 5 days ago
How would you complete this quote? “Our cherished belief in the specialness of human...
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Social Sciences Open Access Repository - 1 month ago
Via John Postill’s Media/Anthropology blog, a post about a new Open Access Repository for all...
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Editorial on Commerical and Not-for-Profit Scholarly Publishing - 1 month ago
Readers of the Open Access Anthropology blog might have an interest in an opinion essay that I...
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Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity - 2 months ago
Readers of Open Access Anthropology will want to check out the announcements for (and press coverage...
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Dr. Karadzic Challenges the Registry’s Procedure for Appointing Stand-By Counsel - 8 hours ago
by Kevin Jon Heller B. Don Taylor, a former legal officer at the ICTY and a good friend, has argued...
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Garzon Goes After Another Pinochet - yesterday
by Gregory Gordon [This is a guest post by Professor Greg Gordon of the University of North Dakota...
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ICJ Begins Advisory Proceedings on Kosovo - 2 days ago
by Chris Borgen I will write on this at greater length in a couple of days after a few of the key...
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Announcing the new SLA Website! - yesterday
I’m very happy to announce today the new website for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology...
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Savage Minds Around the Web - 3 days ago
It’s been a while since I posted something. ‘Sorry’ to those who like the roundup...
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The Treasure Hunter - 5 days ago
As far as I can recall there have been three successful “tomb raider” film franchises:...
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Persuasion for peace - 3 weeks ago
Influencing individual people’s behaviour often seems to be about mundane or trivial things,...
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Subtopia Lecture: Ruin Machine - 1 month ago
Dear all. It’s been way too long for the eerie subtopian silence to not finally come to an end, I...
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The Architecture of Authority - 1 year ago
Recently I came across a visually interesting book by Richard Ross called the “Architecture of...
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Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists - 2 months ago
[Still from Modern Times] “The construction of situations begins beyond the ruins of the modern...
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CFP Henri Lefebvre and the Next World Order - 1 week ago
Call for Papers Deadline: 1 April 2010 Guest Editors: Dr. Gregory Seigworth, Millersville...
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Waterpleinen - 1 month ago
(Image by De Urbanisten and Studio Marco Vermeulen.)To launch its 14th anthology, Water, Alphabet...
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Power Outage on the du Servers - 33 minutes ago
The main power supply over in the florescent lit basement where the digital urban servers sit is...
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Canon G9 Timelapse 1080p with CHDK - yesterday
The movie below is our first timelapse test using the Canon G9, a power supply and the free CHDK...
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HTML 5, GeoStyle Sheets and Vectors: Cartagen - 2 days ago
Perhaps we need to get out more, but we are getting quite excited about the possibilities of HTML 5....
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Complexity and Contradiction in Infrastructure - 19 hours ago
I gave the following talk on Banham's Los Angeles, non-plan, and infrastructure in the Ph.D. lecture...
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Visions of Dubai - 20 hours ago
Bldgblog has a good post up today entitled “Cities Gone Wild,” comparing two dystopian contemporary...
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The Jobs Won't Come Back - 23 hours ago
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains The basic assumption that jobs will eventually...
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Featured Jobs Today: in Springfield MO, Brooklyn, Taiwan & Los Angeles - 14 hours ago
Drury University, Hammons School of Architecture seeking Tenure-Track Position in Architectural...
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ShowCase: 3.1 Phillip Lim Seoul Flagship Store - 20 hours ago
ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers...
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Two in the Bush - 21 hours ago
Robert A.M. Stern and Michael Van Valkenburgh discuss Laura Bush, the "Texas Rose Garden," and other...
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Upcoming Architecture & Design Events - 21 hours ago
This upcoming week brings events in Rome, New York, Cambridge, Paris, London & New Orleans. Thursday...
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Working out of the Box: Radlab, Inc - 21 hours ago
Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their...
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Scratch Day - 7 months ago
Scratch Day is a worldwide network of gatherings, where people will come together to meet other...
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QUALCOMM CEO Paul Jacobs - 7 months ago
Wireless internet has arrived. What's the next stage in our wireless lives? Computing, entertainment...
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Media Arts and Sciences Graduate Application Deadline - 1 week ago
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High-Tech Operas Radically Transform the Stage - 1 month ago
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In Step with Hugh Herr - 1 week ago
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Landscapes of Quarantine and the Counterfeit University - 20 hours ago
[Image: "Landscapes of Quarantine" meets at Storefront for Art and Architecture, October 2009].As...
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Crude City - yesterday
If I was in Los Angeles next week, I would definitely be aboard the Center for Land Use...
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Alexander's Gates - yesterday
One of many books I've been enjoying this autumn is On Monsters by Stephen T. Asma, an extended look...
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BIG TOPS - 2 days ago
(above) Felix Candela’s innovative hyberbolic-parabaloid, thin-shell, reinforced concrete...
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RULES OF THE GAME - 4 days ago
In Europe, Japan, and the United States the populations of cities are mostly stable, which means,...
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LIBESKIND’S MACHINES - 1 week ago
By the mid-1980s, the reputation of Daniel Libeskind as a leading avant-garde figure in architecture...
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Tweak the Surge - 1 hour ago
No, not THAT surge. The online holiday shopping surge. Please help us out by doing what you're...
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Pakistan update - 2 hours ago
Big time attack in Rawalpindi today, where Londonstani went for eid prayers a couple of days ago....
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Abu Muqawama Sells Out! - 11 hours ago
Oh, for goodness sake. Nathan Hodge starts by asking some fair questions about where defense and...
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Channeling Eisenhower - 2 days ago
In keeping with my abstinence from daily blogging, I will not have any in-depth comments on the...
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U.S. Spec Ops Adviser: Widen the Drone War in Pakistan - 1 hour ago
The most important escalation of the war might be the one the President didn’t mention at...
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Obama, Afghanistan and Gangster Rap in Central Asia - 2 days ago
I’ll get right to discussing Obama’s Afghanistan speech at West Point. But first, the...
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Casual Fridays - 2 hours ago
Dan Gerstein has written an interesting book in his review of how the US government has reacted to...
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Human Volunteer Tests Are Just Wrong - 4 hours ago
Domino's Scientists Test Limits Of What Humans Will EatI haven't eaten a Domino's Pizza for some...
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Smart Discussions on Afghanistan - 22 hours ago
If you have some time, listen to the Charlie Rose show titled "Live analysis of President...
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The Taliban Reaction: "Regarding Obama’s New Strategy" - yesterday
The NEFA Foundation has obtained a new communique released by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan...
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Non-academic jobs at the AAA - 2 days ago
Alexandra Mack has just posted on Anthrodesign a list of companies and state agencies that are...
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The ethics of student research ethics - 3 days ago
Recently we were informed that Macquarie was to change its ethics policy to make it so that students...
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The commons, and the culture of climate change - 1 week ago
While we’re talking about national parks and other common spaces in relationship to migration,...
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The Chrysler Peapod, The Reason Innovation Gets a Bad Name - 1 week ago
I believe the time of the electric vehicle is drawing near. It makes a lot of sense: we already...
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Ok, this is just for amusement, and pretty good at that. - 1 month ago
Most people reading this blog will be unaware of my past as a European style clown, street performer...
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The ethnography of a stroke - 1 month ago
I first heard of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor during an interview on Fresh Air, it is a great conversation...
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What happens when Al Shabaab and the Somalian Pirates get EASSy? - 14 hours ago
What do wealthy pirates and Islamic terrorists have in common? They both dislike the Kenyan...
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“Inside Cyber Warfare” due out December 8th, 2009 - yesterday
Posting is light due to my work on getting our Project Grey Goose report on attacks against the...
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Russian Universities and Institutes engaged in InfoSec/InfoWar training: an indepth look - 3 days ago
Today marks the launch of an investigative series into Russian universities and institutes that are...
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My Five Rules for Data Visualization - 22 hours ago
Tonight the NYC R Meetup will be discussing data visualization in R using ggplot2. As part of...
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Terrorist Target Selection and Portfolio Theory - 2 days ago
Following in what may now best be described as a series of recent papers focusing on game theoretic...
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A Pre-Thanksgiving Feast [of Links] - 1 week ago
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving; therefore, both blog writing, blog reading, Twittering, etc. will be...
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Schippert on COIN as an Exit not a Strategy - 9 hours ago
Steve Schippert, my national security amigo from Threatswatch.org, scored an op-ed in The Washington...
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InfoBore 97 - 18 hours ago
[South Korean] Cyber Command to be Launched in January – Jung Sung-Ki, Korea Times Survey...
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‘A Question of Command’ - 2 days ago
MESH invites selected authors to offer original first-person statements on their new books—why and...
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Will more sanctions against Iran work? - 5 days ago
From Raymond Tanter On November 27, 2009, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted a...
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Lebanon on UN Security Council - 1 week ago
From David Schenker In October, Lebanon was elected to one of ten non-permanent member seats on the...
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Funny thing happened on the way to the newspaper - yesterday
A funny thing happened to some facts on their way to the newspaper this week. Last week, on November...
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So . . . Where Are The (Argued) Supreme Court Cases? Part Deux - 10 hours ago
The Court missed its hand-down opportunities this week (although the Justices favored us with...
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John Mark Reynolds on Sarah Palin - 14 hours ago
John Mark Reynolds of the conservative First Things blog has written a detailed chapter by chapter...
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New York Intermediate Appellate Court Invalidates Taking of “Blighted” Property for Transfer to Columbia University, but Contradicts Recent State Supreme Court in the Process - 15 hours ago
In Kaur v. New York Urban Development Corporation,a close 3–2 decision [HT: Neighborhood Retail...
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