Yeah, no anarchy this week, just the top, anthro, brain and some other interesting stuff.
Top of the List
Emily Singer, Brain Cells’ Long Migration
Complete with video! Neurons follow blood vessels. Very cool.
Deric Bownds, Language Shapes Fundamental Unconscious Visual Perception
New PNAS paper – Sapir-Whorf in action!
Bill Moyers Journal, Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman
Alternative news through Slate and Democracy Now covered on the popular PBS program
Joao Biehl, Social Innovation in Global Health: When People Come First
The Princeton anthropologist and rising star gives a lecture that summarizes a lot of his ideas
Life of Wiley, Hilarious
The ninja cat stalks!
Anthropology
immanence, Cultural Studies’ Biosemiotic Turn?
Coverage of some recent books within a broad bio-cultural framework. See a follow-up post on other types of biocultural studies.