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Steve Sheppard (University of Arkansas) has posted Jury, Liberty, and Decay on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The jury is an ancient institution for the protection of an individuals’ liberty against wrongful accusation or punishment by the ...
Steve Sheppard (University of Arkansas) has posted Jury, Liberty, and Decay on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The jury is an ancient institution for the protection of an individuals’ liberty against wrongful accusation or punishment by the state. There are...
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Andrew Scull's commentary in the Los Angeles Review of Books is worthy of your time:- We’re stuck. Descriptive psychiatry is a shambles, as both Taylor and Greenberg’s books help to show, and as the events of this month (May 2013) h...
Andrew Scull's commentary in the Los Angeles Review of Books is worthy of your time:- We’re stuck. Descriptive psychiatry is a shambles, as both Taylor and Greenberg’s books help to show, and as the events of this month (May 2013) have made even more dramatically obvious. But, at present, it has no plausible rival. Speaking to Greenberg some moths ago, Thomas Insel, the self-same person who has now given the official thumbs-down to DSM 5, commented casually that most of his psychiatric colleagues: actually believe [that the diseases they diagnose using the DSM] are real. But there’s no reality. These are just constructs. There is no reality to schizophrenia or depression […] we might have to stop using terms like depression and schizophrenia, because they are getting in our way, confusing things. Some might argue that to hear the head of NIMH saying such things is a trifle confusing, or even a little destabilizing. Surely, if someone in his position keeps uttering such unpalatable truths, he threatens the very legitimacy of the psychiatric enterprise. Remarks like these suggest it’s all a con game. Scientologists and their ilk must be rubbing their hands with glee. N.B. Scull's essay is a great example of why book reviews should count for something and why we should regret their 'death'.
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Me and my amazing mother, Elizabeth Kelly. I chose to be the graduate student speaker at the UC Berkeley 2013 commencement ceremony. It was a difficult audience to write for–I probably should have just copied Neil Gaiman’s ke...
Me and my amazing mother, Elizabeth Kelly. I chose to be the graduate student speaker at the UC Berkeley 2013 commencement ceremony. It was a difficult audience to write for–I probably should have just copied Neil Gaiman’s keynote from last year and called it a day. I’m a little ambivalent about how the speech turned out, but people seemed to enjoy it. Anyway, here it is: In the years before I had the opportunity to stand in front of you in these fancy robes, I was one of the graduate student volunteers that helped out during commencement. After grading exams, teaching, securing funding, conducting research and finding time to write, graduate students are called on to help our fantastic staff today. When I volunteered during commencement, I selfishly went for the best job…the person who stands just behind and to the side of the esteemed chair of the department. This person hands the scrolls to the chair, but as I discovered, they have an extraordinary insight into the commencement ceremony. What this person sees is your face as you achieve an epic win. Jane McGonigal, famous game theorist, humanitarian and UC Berkeley PhD, class of 2006), describes an “epic win” as an “outcome that is so extraordinarily positive that you had no idea that it was even possible and that when you achieve it you are shocked to discover that you are actually capable of such a thing.” The facial expression is singular: joy, fulfillment, attainment of a goal, perhaps a little bit of disbelief and shock. After several years of basking in the glow of the achievements of both my fellow graduate students and the amazing anthropology undergrads I taught…now I get to join you. But I have to admit that I am greedy. I want that job again. I am excited by the potential to enact change in the world, but moreso by the potential of seeing other people achieve their own aspirations. Accordingly, my dissertation research was shaped by three principles: Participate. Make. Share. In anthropology we learn about the breadth and diversity of human experience and in my sub-specialty in archaeology, we acquire knowledge about this human experience through material culture. Our education is one of discerning patterns and difference, specifically, we learn how to see. My advisor Ruth Tringham would surely protest–we learn about the past through all of our senses, she would say. We touch the edges of still-sharp obsidian, we smell the dank interiors of caves, we hear the rasp of dirt beneath our trowels and the dull and hollow rattle that marks a grave. Still, this experience, this way of seeing requires your attention and participation. And that is the first principle that I learned during my studies at UC Berkeley–your full participation is required. No half-measures. Learn and live with both hands. The second principle is to make things. This may seem like a strange imperative coming from an archaeologist–great, now we have even more material culture to study–but making mudbricks at the San Francisco Presidio on a particularly chilly morning, trying to get the straw-to water-to horsehair-to mud ratio correct, hefting them, slapping the bricks together into a wall, and watching the mudbricks melt in the ubiquitous Bay Area fog gave me particular, if unflattering insights into the early architecture of the colonizers in the area. Making ethnographic movies taught me how to watch regular movies…and commercials and Youtube clips. Always always try it yourself. As part of the outreach program mandatory for Berkeley archaeology graduate students, I developed this mudbrick-making into an exercise for 10-year-olds visiting the Presidio and saw them Get It–that elusive link to the past that we archaeologists take for granted. This dovetails nicely into the final principle, which is to share. It is not enough to participate, it is not enough to make things, these things (and the insights glean
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Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking
Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking
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Parece que los tiempos en que las conquistas, novias, amantes o amiguitas de Luis Miguel respetaban reglas de confidencialidad se acabaron. Para muestra están las declaraciones que dio la ex "Nuestra Belleza Latina" y actual cantante Gre...
Parece que los tiempos en que las conquistas, novias, amantes o amiguitas de Luis Miguel respetaban reglas de confidencialidad se acabaron. Para muestra están las declaraciones que dio la ex "Nuestra Belleza Latina" y actual cantante Gretchen Serrano que fue al show de Univision "El Gordo y la Flaca", para explicar que rechazó al "Solo de México" porque la hacía acordar a su papá.La joven, muy simpática y sin problemas de dar hasta el más mínimo detalle, dijo que su cita fue a través de su mejor amiga cuyo padre es amigo de Luis Miguel. Que fueron a un restaurante, él se sentó a su lado y que fue muy caballero, pero se la pasó yendo al baño.More...
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Rama Burshtein's glimpse into Tel Aviv's Hasidic community, Fill the Void is a stunning film taking the viewer into the marriage practices of a hermetic society, offering an intimate, if fictional view, of how matches are made. Ultimatel...
Rama Burshtein's glimpse into Tel Aviv's Hasidic community, Fill the Void is a stunning film taking the viewer into the marriage practices of a hermetic society, offering an intimate, if fictional view, of how matches are made. Ultimately a love story, Fill the Void is most surprising in revealing unexpected emotional connection and subdued passion in places where love is most often a last consideration. Shira (Hadas Yaron), an 18 year old woman drinks tea with suitors at dates arranged by matchmaker; they interview one another as to how they want to live their lives; suddenly after a family tragedy Shira has to consider marrying Yochay (Yiftach Klein) her older sister's husband, twice her age.More...
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Gave my lunch talk today for @ISDC re #MissionsToMars & proud they also recognized my friend & fellow astronaut …
Gave my lunch talk today for @ISDC re #MissionsToMars & proud they also recognized my friend & fellow astronaut …
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The sunset over the Virgin River in Zion National Park. #photography #art #photo #fineart #artprints #zion
The sunset over the Virgin River in Zion National Park. #photography #art #photo #fineart #artprints #zion
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Chromatic example using legato Tab can be found here http://www.chopsfromhell.com/guest_gibson2.html Chromatic legato example "Reflection", tapped harmonics piece by Mark Gibson From the soundtrack to 'The Piano'. 'The Pro...
Chromatic example using legato Tab can be found here http://www.chopsfromhell.com/guest_gibson2.html Chromatic legato example "Reflection", tapped harmonics piece by Mark Gibson From the soundtrack to 'The Piano'. 'The Promise'/'The Heart Asks Pleasure First' by Michael Nyman. Performed this on my Roland HP207, added the strings later Michael Nyman 'The Promise'/'The Heart Asks Pleasure First' - by Mark Gibson Piano Concerto No 1 Movement 3, by Mark Gibson
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Music video of the song 'Peace for 4' from Antoine Fafard's 2013 album Occultus Tramitis. Video directed by Simon Edwards (http://www.srefilms.com/). Antoine Fafard - bass & classical guitar Jerry Goodman - violin Gavin Harrison - d...
Music video of the song 'Peace for 4' from Antoine Fafard's 2013 album Occultus Tramitis. Video directed by Simon Edwards (http://www.srefilms.com/). Antoine Fafard - bass & classical guitar Jerry Goodman - violin Gavin Harrison - drums You can order your signed copy of the CD athttp://www.antoinefafard.com Antoine Fafard - Peace for 4 Jan Laurenz: Ukulele Antoine Fafard,Scott Henderson: Occultus Tramitis
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