Sunday Reading
...(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,...
Dispensing God's Care
Left critiques of the AHCA or Trump’s budget often miss the unique religious goals they serve.
This Week in Art Crime
...depiction of genitalia, which instead must appear censored or pixelated in film and photography. Despite this, Japan has a booming pornography industry, a strange dichotomy that Igarashi's artwork and subsequent...
Humid, All Too Humid
...Earthquakes in Japan, Thailand, Chile, Pakistan, Haiti, etc. were the result of global warming? Only pseudoscientists have answers, which are about as compelling as religious fanaticism. And those condemned Bangladeshis,...
Sunday Reading
...uncontacted tribes Return of the blacklist? Cowardice and censorship at the University of Illinois The definition of academic freedom, for many, does not accommodate dissent. Nothing Unintentional Multicultural Japan? Discourse...
So French
...beautiful, or is this all circular - we define "beauty" as that-which-is-French, giving those-who-are-French an advantage? Why not Japan, with its miracle hair-care products that I randomly discovered while shopping...
Review: Girl Model
...and getting no work—despite the agency’s promise of at least two jobs during their stay in Japan—they think to examine their contracts. Lo and behold, if they gain a centimeter...
Ethel Mairet: A Pioneer of Weaving Technology
...mineralogical survey and where Ethel Mariet would find her passion for weaving. Art from overseas played a role in trends in London as objects from Japan, India, and Persia were...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of November 25, 2019)
...eatery "Immigrant Food" occupies a spot near the White House More and more adults are asking "Why eat meals when you can snack," study finds Social media's impact on Japan's...
Hello, Round of 16; Farewell, Hair We've Left Behind
...in splendor. Your World Cup journey continues; 'tis a pity your World Hair Cup voyage must stop here. Keisuke Honda, Japan. Position: Forward. Hair: Remarkable. Keisuke Honda, as with...
Beauty Blogosphere 12.7.12
...else?—Japan, and I die. Women, food, and the therapeutic narrative: Charlotte Shane argues that the social narrative around food is disordered, and we're not talking in a Michael Pollan...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...in Eastern nations like China, India, and Japan. But even there, it wasn’t no Aryan princesses being lauded as the most attractive. This faux science posits all the history and...
The Quiet Life
...efforts of its narrator. He is also named Jesse Ball, though he refers to himself throughout the manuscript as Int., for Interviewer. He has come to a village in Japan’s...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of July 14)
...masala sauce may have been sampled by seagulls before it had gotten to you All-beef burger but hold the cow? You got it, if you happen to live in Japan...
A Condensed History of Canada’s Colonial Cops
How the RCMP has secured the imperialist power of the north
Defending Rojava
...but also the patriarchy and rape culture prevalent among their own community. After all, ISIS exploits the concept of 'honor' in the region, constructed around women’s bodies and sexualities. Thus,...