Sunday Reading

Kitabet:

• “A study of Cold War spy-satellite photos has tripled the number of known archaeological sites across the Middle East”
• A Brief History of Auto-Tune
• Reflections of an Accidental Public Historian
• “…Istanbul is unkillable. It is a daywalking vampire of a city sipping tea with a stake in its heart and a necklace of garlic knotted around its neck.”
• Apothecary Tales: Pharmacies in Today’s Cairo
• The History of Pain
• Anesthesi
• North African Diversities: Algeria in Flux
• “Adivar is an impact crater on Venus, named in honor of writer Halide Edip Ad?var.”
• Secrets from Belfast
• Death and Legal History on Sunday Afternoons
• A Guide for the Perplexed: On the Return of Refugees
• “There are approximately two billion wooden shipping pallets in the United States.”
• The Trees That Miss the Mammoths
• Wire-Tapping the Ruins of Pompeii
• #SaveKessab, #SaveAleppo, and Kim Kardashian: Syria’s Rashomon Effect
• “At times peer review is like some sort of kinky Victorian sex act that Foucault would dissect: secret, unmentionable, but totally central to our academic/libidinal economies.” 
• Chez Vous, Gitmo to Guangzhou
• Chrono-Cartography of the 1871 Paris Commune
• The Last Decade of May Day Celebrations in Istanbul

Jacqui Shine:

• Photos of the stains death leaves behind
• The Feast of Pain
• Sy Safransky on writing and the full catastrophe of our lives
• Our fascination with sports management movies
• Jenny Diski on aging 
• Motherless by choice
• How the state puts data to coercive ends

Reclaim UC:

Frank Pasquale:

• Steve Jobs, criminal mastermind.
• Will digital planning replace capitalism?
• Machine learning competitions.
• When did feudalism replace capitalism?
• To bone up on big data, read these reports.
• Taking fallacies seriously.
• Serving the mortgage market to banks on a silver platter.
• Facebook is a digital mall, expression is controlled.
• Reprogrammed drones can't phone home, might get cloned.
• Piketty's minimalism.

Bint Battuta:

• The No-State Solution
• Atatürk & My Grandfather
• Frank Lloyd Wright's visit to Cairo in 1957
• King Faisal's visit to London in 1967
• Pietro della Valle, 17th-century traveller
• Ottoman Egypt: The Icelandic Connection
• Jews and Judaism at the Moghul court
• Crypto-Judaism in New Mexico
• Mexico's Chinese community
• Calcutta's Chinese community
• The colour of Christ & race in America
• What the internet gave the Kerala man
• The four-minute mile & the British class system
• A History of Mozart in a Dozen Objects
• The Sachal Studios Orchestra
• A short history of spam
• Italian cricket

Kerim Friedman:

• Protests and majoritarianism in Taiwan
• What’s the evidence on using rational argument to change people’s minds?
• Men are often the victims of sexual assault, and women are often the perpetrators
• Why Riot?
• 19th Century Solar Engines
• Are 90% of academic papers really never cited?
• Taiwan Executes 5 Death Row Inmates as Political Crisis Deepens
• Language Stereotypes in Contemporary Taiwan
• White-washing the water cannon: salesmen, scientific experts and human rights abuses
• Mathematicians: refuse to work for the NSA!
• Linguistic Diversity on the Tibetan Plateau
• 1.6 million Americans don’t have indoor plumbing. Here’s where they live
• “Shuuurpa,” in the muted antipodean accent, “Seriously? That’s AWESOME!”
• One Nation Under Guard
• Why is there international criticism of the executions in Taiwan?

Nathan Deuel:

• LA has banned the use of bullhooks, pitchforks, baseball bats & other goads circus trainers use to control elephants
• "The bird was uninjured and transported to the Santa Monica Animal Shelter."
• "Is there part of me that hopes, starting July 4, it starts raining?" Harbour asked. "You bet."
• Torres has seen a lot of things while serving in Iraq, but he said this man's death is the worst he's ever seen
• "Lebanon is as old as time and as new as tomorrow, and its face is constantly changing." 
• "The problem is they are no longer using 10 kilograms [of explosives] – they are using 90 to 100 kilograms.”
• "How the hell are we going to get rid of this potentially explosive blue whale before the summer high season begins?"
• "You know that..story about Chelsea Clinton that started with fried chicken? The classic anecdotal lead is played out"
• "Together, we can end barfing. Let's hold hands. And then wash them furiously in scalding water."
• "If there's no water and no feed, you move the cows," he said. "You move them or they die."