Sunday Reading

Frank Pasquale:

• Mapping modern journo; is NPR better than RT?
• Art history majoring in context.
• You're being ripped off for broadband and it's only getting worse.
• 2014 Security Risks in Eurasia; pawn to u8.
• Journal of law & biosciences tackles cognitive enhancement.
• Guard labor on the rise.
• Nancy Grace guest exposed.
• Tobacco agnotology, & new careers for ex-tobacco researchers.
• What to do when the boss asks for your Facebook password.
• Can suffering make sense?
• The law of pillage.

L.D. Burnett:

• "But her weapon of choice was history, and Solomon became her obsession."
• "Once new media themselves, newspapers have gone on to outlast cinema and television – but for how long?"
• Let's Talk About Kim Novack
• How a Prince Became a Princess (Part II)
• An Era of Neglect: How public colleges were crowded out, beaten up, and failed to fight back
• What would Adorno say? Take this online, interactive F-scale quiz to find out.
• For SXSW-weary Austinites, a handy app: "Avoid Humans"
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull is back
• 24 Hours of "Happy"
• "Based on a 24-hour broadcast schedule, that translates to about 8.5 hours of Canadian erotica a day."
• Behind the Rocket Cat: Animals in Warfare from Hannibal to World War One
• The Murmurations of Starlings

Jacob Remes:

• Andrew Cuomo gets along better with Chris Christie than Bill de Blasio.
• Clinton's "welfare reform" was a success only in punishing poor people.
• Linking overfishing and labor trafficking
• Workplace safety on film sets
• When judging recovery from 3.11, ask local people, not official statistics.
• 120 years of gender inequality in the history profession
• A deep history of Rocket Cat
• How to talk about Ukraine
• How to talk about millennials

Kerim Friedman:

• More than 130,000 protest over nuclear power plants (in Taiwan)
• Remembering Taiwan’s White Terror
• The Owl and the Tumi
• How education reform drives gentrification
• CIA: We Only Spied On Senate Intelligence Committee Because They Took Classified Documents That Prove We're Liars
• It’s the Neoliberalism, Stupid: Why instrumentalist arguments for Open Access, Open Data, and Open Science are not enough.
• Meet Narendra Modi's biggest stumbling block: Mayawati
• How the New York Times Resurrected the Monocle, Over and Over Again, for the Last 112 Year
• Painted on a wall
• Why Frank Underwood hates children
• Colonialism game: French board game meant to teach kids basics of colonialism
• Air Quotes
• A Warning for Parents: “BPA-Free” May Not Equal “Safe”
• Essay on why faculty members work so much
• The Philadelphia Accent Fades Out

Karen Gregory:

• Detroit, I Do Mind Dying
• Holding Algorithms Responsible
• #Contract_Contagion
• Interviewing the Algorithm
• SXSW Unpaid Labor Problem
• "The real problem is a systemic, far-reaching one that can be stopped only by a revolt among parents and educators"
• “a structural change in the labor market”
•  As Napolitano Sits, Campus Occupations Spread

Mark Healey:

• Kirsten Weld: Official Histories (and Secrets of Repression)
• Fundador de la teología de la liberación llega al Vaticano
• Fernando Escalante deja La Razón con una columna contundente
• La búsqueda de dólares en tiempos de cepo y devaluación: Una crónica
• Líder guerrillero salvadoreño Joaquín Villalobos sobre los caminos de la resistencia en Venezuela

Kitabet:

• Fire Behavior
• On the Anthropology of Infrastructure
• “This is only the latest instance of the targeting of Palestinian soccer players by the Israeli army and security forces.”
• Benim Çocu?um (My Child): a family film
• Saturday Mornings With Abortion Protestors: On Being a Clinic Escort
• “Abduwali Abdukhad Muse sits anxiously in a federal prison in Indiana, while his Hollywood-constructed doppelganger prepares to leap onto a silver screen near you this weekend.”
• Why Is Academic Writing So Beautiful? Notes on Black Feminist Scholarship
• Invasive Cavity Search At the Border
• “The hemlock that remain are about to offer their own eulogy, a remembrance of their species, as the species leaves the earth.”
• Jordan: The War Next Door
• “Shibli desires and is at pains to discover signs of a continuous Muslim world.”
• Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space
• “Love is when you want to have children after the currency’s defaulted"
• The Prison Palimpsest: A Former Tour Guide Looks Back at Eastern State Penitentiary
• “Many decades before satellites even existed, a Japanese cartographer named Hatsusaburo Yoshida was drawing cities as though he was floating thousands of feet above them.” 
• White History Month

ReclaimUC:

• Campus rape and the rise of the academic industrial complex
• Rape culture at the University of Ottawa
• Mount Holyoke, a college for white men?
• How exactly to colleges allocate their financial aid? They won't say.
• Universities as proxy border police
• The death of American universities
• How public colleges were crowded out, beaten up, and failed to fight back
• "Academic freedom is being hollowed out by the economic and social transformation of higher education."
• The trigger warned syllabus
• The great cost shift continues: State higher education funding after the recession
• What tender possibilities, part one / part two

Nathan Deuel:

• "Of Mice and Men was banned when an officer of the general security thought the name John Steinbeck sounded Jewish."
• "If you don't give them something to do, they will find something, and it's not always what you want," Blake said.
• "Everybody said goodbye to the dog...For us she was dead."
• "I had a few bad teeth, but I had all of them pulled because I figured I’d get more pills." 
• "Sounds like Uday and his father rose from the grave."
• "He hates punditry, he hates narratives, he hates bold proclamations."
• "Family members say Williams, a farmer, told them he's happy to be alive."
• “Californians haven’t seen rain and wind this powerful in 3 years."
  The DAY OF WRATH is coming. March 25.

Bint Battuta:

• "Hookers, Heretics & Heroes"
• The history of women's orchestras
• Middle Eastern music digitised by the British Library
• Gulf music digitised by the British Library
• The history of recording in the Gulf
• "Mecca is one giant construction zone"
• AbdouMaliq Simone on postcolonial thought & urban research
• Beyond Casablanca: Jews in Vichy North Africa
• Photos of Libya, 1957
• Photos from Camille Hammad's Aleppo studio 1933-1946
• The connection between the Armenian & Ethiopian scripts
• The politics of Sanskrit
• The history of translation in India
• On JBS Haldane & why India is the world's most interesting country
• On Guillaume Postel & Arabic science in 16th-century Europe
• An Ottoman recipe for an Ayurvedic remedy
• Somali nicknames
• The treatment of Africans in Mumbai
• The treatment of Africans in Delhi
• Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932
• On Turkish satirical novel "The Time Regulation Institute"
• On Pakistani crime novel "The Prisoner"
• On Malayalam novel "Goat Days"
• How to Publish Images in a Scholarly Book