Nigerian passenger causes panic over Ebola suspicion at Istanbul airport A Nigerian passenger has been placed under quarantine on suspicion of having the Ebola virus at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport In other İstanbul news: World Press Photo 2014 exhibition travels to İstanbul Cihan News Agency Award-winning snapshots by photojournalists from around the world will once again adorn … Read more
Last photo of Philip Seymour Hoffman taken. A tintype form this years Sundance film fest. Philip Seymour Hoffman Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his apartment on Sunday. He was 46. In 2006, Hoffman won the Oscar for Best Actor for his starring role in Capote. Upon his nomination, Meghan O?Rourke interviewed Hoffman about his performance … Read more
Brazil and Germany Propose UN Resolution Against Mass Surveillance On November 7th, Brazil and Germany jointly tabled a preliminary version of a resolution on online privacy at the UN General Assembly. At a time when public outrage over the reach and scope of U.K. and U.S. mass surveillance is at an all time high, the … Read more
Intel?s Anthropologist Genevieve Bell Questions the Smart Watch Genevieve Bell, director of Intel?s user experience research, says companies building wearable computers haven?t figured out why people might want them. Anthropology: Growth and Relevance, Not Popularity Anthropologists can suffer from Jared Diamond envy. Here in the United States we bemoan when Diamond?s latest book … Read more
Dink murder trial restarts amid family?s protest, court rules for arrest of key suspect The trial into the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink restarted in Istanbul today Turkish ban on prisoners’ voting violates human rights, says European court The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Sept. 17 that Turkey had violated the … Read more
Trash anthropology in NYC For years, Robin Nagle was anthropologist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation Blood Is Their Argument: anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon During the brief moment that I majored in anthropology in college, I was fascinated by the work of Napoleon A. Chagnon and his seminal 1968 text Yanomamo: The … Read more
Five ways to protect journalists and their anonymous sources Washington Post (blog) In a speech Thursday at National Defense University, President Obama discussed the Justice Department’s prosecution of leakers, emphasizing the need to ?strike the right balance between our security and our open society.? Many observers believe that Scott Lewis: Learning from social platforms … Read more