This Friday, I went to see the new Danish documentary, “Ghosts of Cité Soleil“, by Asger Leth, son of famed Danish film director, Jørgen Leth. The film is a documentary about the gangs of the slum town called Cité Soleil on the outskirts of the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince. These heavily-armed street thugs are called [...]
I began with physical anthropology. I was taught how to measure the size of the brain of a human being who had been dead for a long time, who was all dried out. I bored a hole in his skull, and I filled it with grains of polished rice. Then I emptied the rice into [...]
This Friday I went to the old Department of Anthropology’s annual Career day. This is where old anthropology graduates return to their alma mater to tell soon-to-graduate students about life outside the university. In the so-called “real world”. The study advisors arranging the event had set the minimum attendance to ten, and required all participants [...]
Just stumbled upon an article about a photographer taking pictures of players of on-line games and their in-game personas. As you might, this not only offers the possibility of extreme contrast, as well as eerie similarity. And there’s even a book of such pictures out now, as well. Never having been big on on-line games [...]
My recent post on Simplified Politics was inspired by a Thomas Sowell quote sent to me by my friend Kristian: The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have [...]
I just came across British comedian and activist Rob Newman‘s show “The History of Oil” – it is an enlightening, provoking and funny view on the role of oil in global politics in the past century and what role it’ll be playing in the future, what with the Crisis in the Middle East, Peak Oil [...]
Yesterday there was something like a tumult going on around a couple of the most popular tech news sites, as Digg, a site well-known for its populistic-democratic moderation system which allows users to vote stories up or down, almost collapsed under the pressure of hundreds of news stories all featuring the same item: The recently [...]