Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• The In Vitro Meat Cookbook
• The Planning Machine
• Social Media and Academic Surveillance
• National Adjunct Walk Out Day Planned
• San Jose's Tech Spending
• Trouble at Kool Aid Point
• It's Still Not a Skills Gap Holding Wages Down 
• The Plot Against Public Education 

Reclaim UC:

• The Free Speech Movement and the unfinished work of civil rights at UC Berkeley
• The plot against public education: how millionaires and billionaires are ruining our schools
• The lengths one school board and administration will go to to force the student paper to print a racial slur
• The changing profile of student borrowers
• Wave of contingent-faculty organizing sweeps onto campuses
• AP U.S. history to "promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system" and discourage "civil disorder [or] social strife”
• Abolish campus police
• Inside the Mexican school where dozens of students recently killed and disappeared by police studied
• Act Two: St. Louis erupts after another police murder
• Wall Street is making a killing off cities' debt
• The cultural ideology of big data
• "[F]or well over a decade the city-as-a-place has been erasing the city-as-a-people"
• RIP Loukanikos

Bint Battuta:

• "Comprehensive searchability has introduced a rupture into my relationship with the book"
• The Internet's Idea of History
• Smug Britannia: The Dominance of (the) English in Current History Writing
• East India Company ship routes
• China & the Ancient Mediterranean World
• Sounding Islam in China
• Chinese Muslims & Shari’a
• Persians & Indians in Japan, c.1890-1930
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• Uncovering Lebanon's Jewish past
• Recalling Jewish Calcutta
• "I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew"
• On proposals to make Hebrew Israel's sole official language
• Between Qaum & the nation
• Kaaba Tiles (more questions than answers)
• Dresden's Yenidze Oriental Tobacco & Cigarette Factory
• Virtual tour of an 18th-century wooden mosque in Kruszyniany, Poland
• Jordan's Museum of Textbooks
• The history of Karagöz, Ottoman shadow theatre
• Readings of an 18th-Century Ottoman Bureaucrat
• I Am: Portraits of Sri Lanka's elders
• How Cyclone Hudhud got its name

Nathan Deuel:

• "He went back in, he got the dogs..." Man reenters burning house for two poodles. 
• California wineries are harvesting smaller, more concentrated grapes for a standout wine season.
• "He acknowledged that 7 other L.A. county patients had been tested for Ebola."
• "A California Highway Patrol officer saved a man from a life-threatening ant attack."
• "More than 50 mothers and juveniles were rolling and playing with dolphins"
• "Mantecans have heart, big hearts. That can easily translate into $60 or so a day tax free panhandling."
• "Sunday night will probably be the only one he spends by the river, which tends to be more dangerous than downtown."
• 'Well, my dear, if that's not the way it happened, then that's the way it should have happened.'
• "How the animal, believed to be a black bear, got there, to a spot near 69th Street, remained a mystery"
• "Redford started out tame - shooting pictures of bikini models holding big fish."
• "I asked Greg Maddux if he'd found everything he was looking for."
• "Three days later, the first of 13 huge C-54s landed at Beirut’s airport. Next morning Operation Hajj was under way."
• "We walked out and they had wet towels, water, and ice cream for us. They were very very apologetic about it."  
• "The fish refrigerators are the latest unusual measure taken by fish and wildlife managers."
• "They'll stay with us until it rains. After that, they'll be returned to the lake."
• "On the plane to Coral Gables, Florida, I made a list of all the clothes I own: 200 items."

Kerim Friedman:

• Hong Kong protests: Police officers upset at being un-friended on Facebook
• Prime Cuts
• Here's How Nigeria Beat Ebola
• Anila Quayyum Agha - Intersections
• Bourdieu meets Marx, Gramsci, Fanon, Freire, Beauvoir and Mills
• The Roberts Court’s Brief Progressive Moment
• The Myth of Diversity and Critical Thinking in American Academia
• The 500-year-old poem that captivated Reddit
• David Brooks Columns In One Sentence or Less
• No Apology