Cap and Trade
...temperature and rainfall and cracks in the forest and coordination between trees and fungi and supply chains coming out of Japan into Oregon. In the dominant ways of thinking about...
Quakes and Ale: Comparing Cultures in Catastrophe
...heartland, St. Louis has a ferociously autochthonous culture; nonnatives risk suffocation. Many St. Louisans never leave the metro area. So insular are they, in fact, that they couldn’t even be...
The Dating Game: Compliments, Part III
...(wealth and taste) tell us something about cultural values in Japan. Similarly, in a relationship’s microculture, “There’s nowhere else in the world I’d rather be than in your arms” becomes...
Little Big Eater Girl
...contest,” I say. “It’s for a Japanese TV show called the Big Eaters World Championships, and it’s the final round between Team America and Team Japan.” I know this because...
Sunday Reading
...in Gujarat schools Violence outside Paris synagogue falsely attributed to anti-Semitism How Opposite Energy Policies Turned The Fukushima Disaster Into A Loss For Japan And A Win For Germany This...
Bound to Black
The reemergence of chloroquine scratches a persistent imperial itch for biological race
Where State Politics Meets Gender Politics: Chien-Shiung Wu and the Manhattan Project
...initially waged as a separate war. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, this war became part of the Second World War, and the US and Soviet Union came to...
This Week in Art Crime
...reach the sign. Police are thought to have identified Urakawa from the video. Abraham earlier told his Facebook followers he was in Japan over the New Year’s holidays. Osaka police...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: March Madness makers and takers Students strike back in Montreal What can Quebec teach us? A preliminary analysis of the university as a site of struggle (2012)...
Sunday Reading
...Album 'mbv' Breaks the Internet" ReclaimUC: Where does UC tuition go? Average earnings of young college graduates are still falling Universities start suing their graduates over delinquent loans Student loans...
Sunday Reading
...penalized by the child welfare system. ReclaimUC: America's top cop as UC president What does Janet Napolitano's appointment as UC president tell us about the UC? UC President Napolitano and...
Sunday Reading
...Italy ReclaimUC: Nearly every faculty member of color at UCLA has experienced racial bias In Berkeley, racism never left Academic whores Do student evaluations measure teaching effectiveness? A revenge scenario...
Reading Katehi: The Pepper Spray Chancellor
...glorified fundraiser and figurehead -- seem legitimate as sovereign authority. As ReclaimUC puts it, the problem of outsiders comes to assume an enormous amount of space in the administrative mind:...
Sunday Reading
...RN Remembering Trouillot ReclaimUC: Chile: While copwatching the student protests now requires helmets and gas masks, Chilean students are no longer afraid of the police. Quebec: Henry Giroux on the...
Sunday Reading
...Religion and politics Neoliberal attacks on sociological inquiry What would Mary Beard do? How not to write an endorsement Awakening to an earthquake ReclaimUC: Cal disorientation guide 2014 Napolitano hopes...
Sunday Reading
...Jason Alexander and Megan Carpentier ReclaimUC, defiantly debting as usual, but also enjoying an organic, locally produced burrito: "The gold rush is on, and in this case the gold rush...