Five episodes have aired since the premiere of Spike TV’s American Diggers, a particularly opposed reality series starring former wrestler Ric Savage, as he and his crew of family and business partners dig up peoples’ backyards in search of artifacts. The archaeological community has been up in arms since before the show aired, and as an anthropology student privy to their concerns, I am here to tell you why there have been mass petitions against this show, and why the controversy has made it to the New York Times. In short, there are two important matters that American Diggers undermines: reputation and site destruction.
May 30, 2012
read this article i wrote on ‘american diggers’
April 29, 2012
April 26, 2012
The wealthiest university on Earth can’t afford its academic journal subscriptions
Yes, you read that right. According to a memorandum issued last week by Harvard Library’s Faculty Advisory Council, the cost of its peer-reviewed journal subscriptions has become prohibitively expensive. What does it say about the world of academic publishing, the accessibility of knowledge, and the flow of information when the richest academic institution on the planet cannot afford to continue paying for its peer-reviewed journal subscriptions?
Yet another reason why I enjoy free things. Especially when it comes to academic reading/journals/books.
March 23, 2012
Neil Gaiman: On Originality
There are about 5,300 ASK messages right now sitting in the queue. Which is why yours hasn’t been answered, I expect.
One question I keep seeing over and again, even more than “What MFA program should I do?” (I do not answer this, because my answer would probably be: “I have no idea. I never did…
(Source: The Atlantic)
March 9, 2012
February 24, 2012
(Source: inspiredbythisfeeling, via coffeeandyoga)
February 24, 2012
(Source: doesnteverybodywanttofallinlove, via coffeeandyoga)
February 24, 2012
npr:
Really, the pointer should be 20C. Input devices in 21C will be/are things like your fingers, your eyes, your brain. —Wright
February 23, 2012
"There’s no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don’t wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won’t."
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Kris Carr (via inspiringoneatatime)
In my case, someone gave me the wake up call.
(via coffeeandyoga)(via coffeeandyoga)
February 23, 2012
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