Polymath's Guide to News and Ideas
Accepting the Might to Exist: Some Israeli Lessons for Anthropology
OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY :How can they remains a crucial question that ought to engage us all as anthropologists, and an anthropology committed to humanity cannot but be staggered by the inhumanity witnessed by something like today’s (Tuesday’s) Israeli massacre of 43 civilian refugees at a U.N. school in Jabaliya... READ MORE
The Depressed History Job Market
WWW.INSIDEHIGHERED.COM :This year’s decline in academic jobs in history may be 15 percent or higher, according to preliminary data presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association... READ MORE
Scientists dismiss 'detox myth'
BBC NEWS :There is no evidence that products widely promoted to help the body "detox" work, scientists warn... READ MORE
Can Partisanship Save Citizenship?
THE AMERICAN PROSPECT ARTICLES :Public intellectuals don't agree on much. However, in recent years they seemed to nearly unanimously believe that American public life was in terrible shape... READ MORE
Beware of Pity
NEW YORKER :In 1999, the Croatian novelist Slavenka Drakulić visited The Hague to observe the trials for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia... READ MORE
Nine Inch Nails Album Generated $1.6 Million in First Week (Updated)
WIRED: ENTERTAINMENT :Trying to find out how much money Radiohead made from the digital release of In Rainbows was like pulling teeth... READ MORE
New wind turbine could dramatically increase generation efficiency
AUTOBLOGGREEN :One of the primary reasons that current wind turbines have to be so large is that most of the energy is lost as the air flows off the end of the blades. That size increases the cost and reduces the density of turbines that can be installed... READ MORE
Scientists discover true love
TIMESONLINE :SCIENTISTS have discovered true love. Brain scans have proved that a small number of couples can respond with as much passion after 20 years as most people exhibit only in the first flush of love... READ MORE
Gaza 2008: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars
INFORMED COMMENT :With regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict, we have entered the age of micro-wars. The first wars that Israel fought with its Arab neighbors were conventional struggles in which infantry, artillery, armor and air forces played central roles. ... READ MORE
Israel has plenty of tactics for war, but none for peace
GUARDIAN :All those involved, and most of those following the bloodshed in Gaza from afar, are sure who is in the right and who is in the wrong... READ MORE