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A round of articles on the many hurdles facing women who breast feed and/or pump breast milk shows just how inconvenient this activity is in a world designed, so it would seem, with only men in mind. Sara J. Welch notes in a recent New York Times article:
“Several working mothers spoke of looking for [...]
David Swensen and Michael Schmidt make the case for turning newspapers into non-profits funded by a university-styled endowment. But is it necessary to characterize print news as what’s saving us from the dirty internet, that “‘cesspool’ of false information”? The New York Times is, after all, by all international standards one of the least credible [...]
Last-Minute Changes - Wall Street Journal
But is the timeline right? Did human evolution really stop? If not, our sense of who we are — and how we got this way — may be radically altered. Messrs. Cochran and Harpending, both scientists themselves, dismiss the standard view. Far from ending, they say, evolution has accelerated since [...]
Though the two lectures comprising Pierre Bourdieu’s short work On Television (1996) more or less exclusively focus on news programming, and predate the blogosphere, if not the internet — which is important to the extent that so much of what he has to say here concerns ownership of the means of information production, — the [...]
In a recent World Picture article entitled “The Obviousness of Cinema,” Rosalind Galt, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex and author of The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map (Columbia UP, 2006), takes us on a thoughtful, encyclopedic tour of the [...]
If wondering what it’s like to be a bat, as the philosopher Thomas Nagel famously did in a 1974 essay, no longer sates our appetite for the futile, designing simulations for them might. For more than thirty years now, as chronicled in Richard D’Eath’s extensive review, “Can video images imitate real stimuli in animal behaviour [...]
In a thought-provoking post on I cite, Jodi Dean describes the proliferation and popularity of ‘tag clouds’ as capturing “the shift from message to contribution characteristic of communicative capitalism”. That is, in place of meaning and context, which in actuality govern discourse, tag clouds display information in terms of repetition, frequency, and intensity.
“The meaning of [...]
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