Day: October 25, 2008

PhD Comics: Piled Higher and Deeper

Meg Towle, a former student of mine and now on a Marshall Scholarship, sent me this link to PhD Comics. Very funny. Here’s one I found that was particularly appropriate for Meg:

Our own Paul Mason just used a PhD comic in his latest post on the travails of field work. If you want to know more about the comics, including the 200 most popular ones, go here. You can even get books collecting the work of Jorge Cham, the cartoonist who has compared me to a ninja.

Coincidentally Meg and I just published an article together entitled “Community Approaches to Preventing Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission: Perspectives from Rural Lesotho .” So kudos to Meg!

October Four Stone

Greg Laden has put up the October 22nd edition of the anthropology carnival Four Stone Hearth. A very remote period presents us with the relevance of archaeology; we have the oldest artifact ever found in Indiana (my home state); and a short piece on James Clifford and contemporary archaeology. Plus more, so check it out.

Greg also provides us a handy summary of recent carnivals, and even points out Sharp Brains’ new proposal for the MetaCarnival, a super carnival bringing together the best of all these other carnivals.

Greg has also featured a lot of political writing lately, including this critical yet funny and endearing video Hey Sarah Palin.