It’s February, Do You Know Where Your Anthropologist Is?
Starting later this week, accelerating through the weekend, and exploding by next Tuesday, the world will be entering…
Nail Polish, Democracy
Wafa Ben Hassine, writing today at Nawaat: The social climate in Tunisia is deteriorating. Many people cannot even…
Economics: Red Cross Getting Tired of Carrying Austerity Fallout
A tricky word, “developed.” It’s hard to find much silver lining in Europe’s now-five-year-long economic collapse. But: at…
Super Bowl: Are American Sports Fans the Classy Ones?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lPMMsTimTg This weekend’s Super Bowl promises to offer excess, violence and, if history is a guide, not much…
Sociologists and The End of Sleep
The past week has seen a flurry of attention around the latest purported wonder drug, Modafinil, which claims…
Follow Up: A Year Since Pussy Riot, Castellon’s Phantom Race Car
They wore sundresses in Moscow. In January. This weekend marked a year since Russian punk band Pussy Riot…
Inauguration Day: Remembering the Purple Tunnel of Doom
We have no idea who is singing the song above, but we probably stepped on his toes four…
Terrorist? Cigarette Distributor? Both?
Is France at war with terrorists in Mali? Or with smugglers? A study from September suggests the confusing…
Armstrong’s Lawyers Speak. Harshly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KJnIn0GZ0s Amid the flurry of reports that Lance Armstrong has admitted to blood doping, in a yet-unaired interview…