Tag Archives: Culture

On Chimps

February 21, 2009 – 9:23 pm

Here’s an interesting article on the perception of African American as apes even today: The researchers consistently discovered a black-ape association even if the young adults said they knew nothing about its historical connotations. The connection was made only with African American faces; the paper’s third study failed to find an ape association with other [...]

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Chemical irritant empties Islamic Society of Greater Dayton’s mosque

September 30, 2008 – 9:04 am

The Dayton Daily News has a story about a terrorist attack on a mosque in Ohio. Entirely coincidentally, an anti-Muslim DVD was distributed to thousands of households in Ohio earlier in the week. Daily Kos has an email account of the attack: She told me that the gas was sprayed into the room where the [...]

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Prescient, if perhaps Obvious

September 27, 2008 – 8:32 pm

Cringely reposts an excerpt from a post of his that appeared two days after 9/11. Right now it seems obvious, but I don’t know if it seemed that way then: ‘To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail,’ wrote Mark Twain. In the current context this means that the organizations charged with [...]

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American Roots

July 28, 2008 – 8:41 am

Great map on Wikipedia showing where people are originally from in the US, by county. Some notes: That’s a lot of Germans Look how few Norwegians in Minnesota. Take that, Garrison! Other = Cuba or Hawaiian Mormons are English. Sorry about that BIG surprise for Puerto Rico The data for Florida is heavily skewed, because [...]

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White Trousers

July 3, 2008 – 10:29 am

One of the fashion items of the moment among young women in the UK is the white trouser. Being male I’m all for this innovation, though I might advocate certain restrictions (the 60-something woman I saw at the beech with a too-small hipster pair and a boob tube, for example). It struck me that this [...]

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