Mandela: a visual memorial VISUALIZING IMPACT 15 December 2013 ********************** World’s leading authors join surveillance of personal data debate Over 500 of the world?s leading authors released an open letter calling on governments to curb mass surveillance methods European Universities? Identity Crisis VÍCTOR PÉREZ-DÍAZDEC 10, 2013www.project-syndicate.org/ Víctor Pérez-Díaz, President of the ASP Research Center in Madrid … Read more
SİYASET VE İLETİŞİMİN KESİŞİM NOKTASI OLARAK PROPAGANDA 09 Aralık 2013 Londra?da bulunan British Library (İngiliz Kütüphanesi) 17 Mayıs – 17 Eylül 2013 tarihleri arasında önemli bir sergiye ev sahipliği yaptı: ?Propaganda: İktidar ve İkna.? Siyaset ve iletişimin kesişim noktalarını araştırmak için gittiğim sergi, ?propagandanın altın çağı? 20. yüzyıl boyunca ve günümüzde çeşitli dünya devletlerince … Read more
Three Unpublished J.D. Salinger Stories Leak Online Three unpublished stories by the famously reclusive American writer, J.D. Salinger, have leaked online after appearing on an eBay auction Shared Services Backlash The University of Michigan is trying to save millions on staff costs, using an increasingly popular strategy, but faculty are unhappy. American Studies … Read more
Nobel Prize-winning British author Doris Lessing dies aged 94 British author Doris Lessing, whose powerful feminist and anti-colonial writing won her the Nobel Literature Prize, died at the age of 94 ********************* Turkish epitaph: Christopher de Bellaigue on Orhan Pamuk Christopher de Bellaigue is struck by the vulgar, Stepford Wives vision that has replaced the … Read more
What Makes a Sex Shop Halal? Responding to apparent pent-up demand for tacky bachelorette parties, the 38-year old Turkish entrepreneur Haluk Murat Demirel has opened the country’s first halal (permissible in Islam) sex shop online. It’s not the first such enterprise in the world — successful predecessors can be found in such varied locales … Read more
New Zealand Author Eleanor Catton Wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize 28 year old Eleanor Catton becomes the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize. She won for her novel, The Luminaries. Neil Gaiman explains the worth and value of libraries In an absolutely stirring, smashing speech delivered as the Reading Agency annual lecture, Neil … Read more
Puzzling Peer Reviews As open-access journals search for a review process that preserves diversity and quality, a sting operation exploits the weaknesses of lax quality control. The Incredible Predictive Power of Tom Clancy’s Novels Before Tom Clancy became an international publishing phenomenon, he was just another insurance salesman, working out of Baltimore and dreaming … Read more
Japan’s Murakami favourite for Nobel prize Japanese literary superstar Haruki Murakami is favourite for this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, betting odds showed Medical terminology named after Nazis Surprisingly, there are a good half-dozen medical eponyms that come from Nazi doctors who performed experiments on unwilling human subjects or used bodies of executed prisoners in … Read more
Google is working with Harvard and MIT?s edX platform to help anyone create online courses A little over a year since Harvard and MIT joined forces to launch the not-for-profit online learning venture edX, Google has announced that it?s to start working with edX to build an open MOOC (massive open online course) platform, hosted … Read more
College Pirates? U.S. Universities Ranked by BitTorrent Usage BitTorrent has plenty of legitimate uses but much of the traffic that passes through can be linked to copyright infringement. This is true on all regular Internet providers but also on university networks. Unlike consumer ISPs, however, educational institutions are required by law to prevent copyright infringement … Read more
Read 113 Pages of Charles Bukowski?s FBI File From 1968 Click image for a larger version Downgrading Elite Colleges Prestigious liberal arts colleges are facing financial pressures, according to recent credit ratings. Isaac Asimov?s 1964 Predictions About What the World Will Look 50 Years Later ? in 2014When New York City hosted The World?s … Read more
New Archive Makes Available 800,000 Pages Documenting the History of Film, Television & Radio Click images for larger versions Film buffs and scholars have a new cache at their fingertips. The Media History Digital Library has made hundreds of thousands of pages of film and broadcasting history available in a searchable digital archive they?ve called … Read more
Preoccupying: an interview with David Harvey David Harvey highlights the importance of challenging the state and addresses the everchanging ideal of the city and the social groups that sustain and contest it. Academies of hatred A series of public events in Wroc?aw, Poland?s European Capital of Culture in 2016, have been disrupted by radicals. Those … Read more
The 100 Best Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers (Read 20 for Free Online) Since 2009, the organization VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts has sought to bring balance to the representation of female authors in the literary world. As revealed by the 2010controversy begun by author Jodi Picoult over the gushing treatment Jonathan Franzen?sFreedom received … Read more
George Stocking Jr., ‘Anthropology’s Anthropologist,’ Dies at 84 New York Times George W. Stocking Jr., a historian of science who chronicled the norms, customs and tribal beliefs of modern anthropologists, documenting a history of racial bias and ethnocentrism as well as great insights, died on July 13 in Chicago. He was 84 Anthropologists as Spies This piece … Read more