Workwankers Michael Herbert Miller reviews ‘The Love Song of Jonny Valentine’ by Teddy Wayne · LRB 21 March 2013 The pop star Justin Bieber was born in London, Ontario, the son of two teenagers. His mother was a high-school dropout who liked beer and LSD, and his father an amateur musician. Jeremy Jack Bieber, also a heavy drinker, was in the local jail the night his son was born. ‘Anything is possible,’ Justin Bieber writes in Just Getting Started, his second ‘100 per cent official’ memoir, published last year. Bieber became a star in 2007, when his remarkable vocal range was discovered by a former Atlanta club promoter called Scott ‘Scooter’ Braun, the 31-year-old son of a dentist and an orthodontist from Greenwich, Connecticut, while he was browsing YouTube. Gotta change my answering machineNow that I’m alone’Cuz right now it says that weCan’t come to the phoneAnd I know it makes no sense’Cuz you walked out the doorBut it’s the only way I hear your voice anymore. It was only a matter of time before somebody wrote a novel about him.
Humboldt’s Maps : Mapping Thoreau Country In his eulogy at Thoreau's funeral in Concord in 1862, in a line that was omitted from his published remembrance, Emerson singled out three men who had deeply impressed his late friend: the abolitionist martyr John Brown, the poet Walt Whitman, and Penobscot wilderness guide and tribal leader Joe Polis. To this list, Emerson might have added—along with Samuel de Champlain—Alexander von Humboldt, who was widely regarded as the world's foremost 'man of science' during the first half of the nineteenth century. As Champlain had before him, Humboldt traveled the world to gather facts about a dizzying array of natural phenomena, "so that," as Emerson remarked, "a university, a whole French Academy travelled in his shoes." Laura Dassow Walls, William P. and Hazel B. "Humboldt was perhaps most famous for his 1802 ascent of Ecuador’s Chimborazo, then thought to be the highest mountain in the world. Explore Humboldt's contributions to understanding climate change.
Swords Into Silverware - Carnegie Mellon Today In the beginning was the Waffle Shop. And it was good. But man and woman do not live by breakfast alone. So they said, "Let there be lunch." What you notice most when you ask Carnegie Mellon art professor Jon Rubin to tell you the story of the creation of the Conflict Kitchen is how easy he makes it sound. For the Waffle Shop, think of a breakfast diner combined with the old television show Candid Camera, only there are no pranks and people aren't unwitting participants. Now, with the Waffle Shop well established, they were trying to figure out what new experience they could set into motion. And there you have it. Because there were so many countries, as they put it, to choose from, Rubin, Peña, and Weleski planned to make Conflict Kitchen a rotating take-out restaurant that would stay open for four months, then close, then re-open as another country. Kubideh seemed to be just the thing-a traditional Persian sandwich that's a favorite in Iran the way the hamburger is in America.
The amazing history of the Nobel Prize, told in maps and charts Click to enlarge. (Max Fisher/Washington Post) The United States added three more Nobel laureates to its roster on Monday, all in economics, bringing the national total to an astounding 347 in the prize's history. That's the most of any country in the world, by far: next-highest ranked is Britain with 120 laureates. Up top is a heat map showing which countries have had the most Nobel laureates in the prize's history. Most countries have zero Nobel laureates. Just over 1,000 Nobels have been awarded since the prize was first established in 1901. A stunning 83 percent of all Nobel laureates have come from Western countries (that means Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia or New Zealand). Looking at the data this way, it becomes awfully clear that people outside of Europe and North America don't win very many Nobels. Look at all that blue and green! Of course, part of this has to do with the fact that the world has changed dramatically over the last 113 years. 1.
Men and Women Use Uptalk Differently: A Study of Jeopardy! We’re celebrating the end of the year with our most popular posts from 2013, plus a few of our favorites tossed in. Enjoy! What’s the big deal about uptalk? In The College of William & Mary’s Tom Linneman took a look at how women and men both use uptalk in his new study, “Gender in Jeopardy! Intonation Variation on a Television Game Show” in Gender & Society. The punchline? What is uptalk? “Uptalk is the use of a rising, questioning intonation when making a statement, which has become quite prevalent in contemporary American speech,” explains Linneman. Jeopardy! How do men use uptalk? Linneman found that men use uptalk as a way to signal uncertainty. Men’s uptalk increased when they were less confident, and also when they were correcting women — but not men. How do women use uptalk? As Linneman explains, “One of the most interesting findings coming out of the project is that success has an opposite effect on men and women on the show.”
{ k j e r s t i s l y k k e } Urvashi Butalia | Childless, naturally Updated: Tue, Mar 26 2013. 08 01 PM IST Urvashi Butalia has been at the forefront of the feminist movement in India for many years. This essay, which appears in the just published collection, Of Mothers And Others: Stories, Essays, Poems, edited by Jaishree Misra, is a meditation on her life as a single woman and her decision to not have children. By Urvashi Butalia It has been two years since the man I nearly married and I decided to part. Of Mothers And Others—Stories, Essays, Poems: Edited by Jaishree Misra, Zubaan, 304 pages, Rs495. Thirty years later. My friend’s statement stays with me. I think back to my friends who talk about being able to love unconditionally. I’ve just got my first job. My mother and I are talking. I’ve set up my own publishing house, publishing books by and about women. My friend Judith has been trying to have a child for many years. Mona’s daughter, Ayesha, comes to visit me. A month later Bina is pregnant. Two years later, she runs away again. I’m at home.
Indoor Football Practice Facility - Cannon Design The Endowment for the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) commissioned CannonDesign to design a state-of-the-art, multi-use, multi-sport indoor training facility, one that would rival those built in the Mountain West Conference and in other service Academies. As the USAFA competes on the national stage in all sports, the indoor training facility will provide regular uninterrupted daily preparation, enhancing the training opportunities for all Cadets, which is paramount to the success of its athletic programs. As a place of business for the cadets and coaches, the indoor training facility will provide a no nonsense approach to training, which was modeled after the elements of the Academy’s Falcon Stadium. The indoor field is designed as a replica of Falcon Stadium, with a full size turf field, camera and video platforms, and proper lighting. Graphics and banners immediately signify Falcon football. The building is designed to meet USGBC LEED Silver criteria.
Melancholy and The Infinite Sadness Edgar Degas, Melancholy (1874) Affect theory takes on sadness, but is just getting through depression good enough? Ann Cvetkovich Depression: A Public Feeling Duke University Press, 2012.In Ann Cvetkovich’s new “critical memoir,” Depression: A Public Feeling, the University of Texas professor seeks to “defamiliarize” depression within a genealogy of spiritual despair, while attending to the relationship of the psyche to the soma as illustrated by how different cultures or the working class are more likely to somatize their depression. Can we, Cvetkovich asks at the book’s beginning, engage with depression as the “product of a sick culture”? Subscribe to TNI magazine for $2 and get TNI Vol. 14: Time Wednesday. Cvetkovich’s work on political depression comes out of the cultural studies subfield known as affect theory, of which groups like Feel Tank Chicago are a part, which attempts to bring private feelings back into the public sphere. Please fill in all fields
Mini Milkshake Shooters A few weeks ago I was scheming up signature drink ideas for a clients wedding when bam! My ridiculous summer of 2011 ice cream addiction finally came to good use. And I thought to myself, how adorable would Mini Milkshake Shooters be? (Rimmed with semi-sweet chocolate, colourful sprinkles, topped with marshmallows and adorned with a pretty striped straw of course). My sweet partner in crime Jenna and I got right to work, making way too big of a mess and having way too much fun creating these little gems that turned out perfect. Keeping in line with my latest goal of presenting you with content that’s applicable to all areas of life how absolutely sweet would these be at a birthday party for your kids or even a New Year’s Eve party with metallic dragees and a little splash of Kahlua? {Supplies} To rim your glasses you’ll need to melt about 2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips in a double boiler until the chocolate is a liquid (make sure it doesn’t burn and see the photos below!) P.S.
Social discovery vs. sociability One of things Dan Slater reports on in Love in the Time of Algorithms is online dating’s evolution into “social discovery,” which is not a matter of algorithms and social media helping users find a romantic partner per se but about their helping users find people with common interests of any sort. In my review of the book, I argued that this was online-dating companies’ attempt to rationalize and subsume sociability in general. The implicit pitch of social discovery is this: You can’t just meet people in the wild for no preconceived reason at all, without corporate mediation — that would be inconvenient, possibly scary, and worst of all, unpredictably awkward. You should be able to choose the sort of social encounters you want the same way you choose the sort of food you want to eat. It should be a consumer choice driven by individual autonomy. Bersani’s argument, admittedly, gets a bit abstract at this point.
Alfalfa New York VersoBooks.com Writing in Libération, Jacques Rancière talks about populism and French politics today. The People Are Not a Brutal and Ignorant Mass Not a day goes by without the risks of populism being denounced on all sides. It is clear however that there is no necessary connection between these features. For 'the people' as such does not exist. Is this epidemic unleashing of blind crowds led by charismatic leaders really a contemporary phenomenon in countries such as ours? These measures are supported by an ideological campaign that justifies this restriction of rights by the evidence of failure to exhibit certain features that characterize national identity. Marine Le Pen's recent outburst is instructive in this respect. And so neither the 'populists' nor the people as presented by ritual denunciations of populism actually match their definition. Translated from French by David Fernbach. More in #Articles