The latest Four Stone Hearth carnival of anthropology blogging is now out (in?) at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub. So grab your cowboy coffee and head over for a good soaking.
This is most definitely a FOUR field edition, and Ed Darrell deserves a lot of credit for that. Primates, globalization, the earthen and the electronic, fossils – it’s all there!
The latest mind/brain Encephalon carnival is out at Ionian Enchantment. Lots of good stuff, so check it out. A couple of favorites include Dr. Shock’s look at online gaming (what a surprise there – and he reminded me that I need to check out Quake Live) and Podblack’s poetry – practive vs. impulse – debate.
ACP Internist is hosting this week’s medical blogging Grand Rounds in a well-done newspaper style format. Looks like there is broad support for health care reform among patients. The rise in number of psychiatrists in the US has gone hand-in-hand with increasing use of drugs and a proliferation of diagnostic categories, all to justify both the work and getting paid for it, argues Phillip Hickey. Neurofeedback is now being used to deal with ADHD, reports SharpBrains. And here’s a great debunking – we don’t actually lose the majority of our heat through our heads.
The latest anthropology Four Stone Hearth carnival is out over at the Swedish Osteological Association – kudos on the new site!
They have a very entertaining skeleton dance video to open this edition, worth it just for that. Lots of archaeology this time, which is great to see (and what a suprise from an osteological association…). John Hawks discusses peer review and Micele Lamont’s new book. And since it’s a topic I hope to talk about in the future, check out Culturge’s Homo evolutis, based on the TED talk by Juan Enriquez.
The latest medical Grand Rounds is out at Doc Gurley. Kudos to her for running a live version of the carnival – the Internet sweeps into that venerable medical tradition. You can actually see the video of the live broadcast on her site!
There’s a slideshare on a basic intro to genetics from Medicine and Man. And for the culturally inclined, as well as those with heart disease (refrain from joke…), there is a revelatory piece from Dr. Rich on Where those cardiology guidelines come from.
PodBlack Cat is hosting a happy face Encephalon, with mind/brain bloggers pitching in such posts as a colorful Whorf bias, the epigenetic regulation of stress (and not a happy story, this one), and how cognitive training works.
Health Business Blog is hosting this week’s Grand Rounds of medical blogging. From freak show to self-help salon, it’s got it all. Like waiving your rights to say bad things about your doctor on the internet (i.e, freedom of expression) and self-esteem and mountaineering!
moneduloides is hosting the Carnival of Evolution, including Darwin’s degenerates and explaining cancer through game theory.
And for more on the great Carnival/Carnaval in Barranquilla, you can get some photos and music here and the official Colombia site here.
The Neurocritic has posted a fine post-presidential Friday the 13th Darwin Day Encephalon, rounding up the best mind/brain blogging.
This edition is as super-sized as its name! We have a book review of Embracing the Wide Sky where the author, an autistic savant, explores the way his mind works. Then there is The Mouse That Couldn’t Get High, discussing a paper about dopamine transporter knock out mice, which leaves the dopamine theory of addiction intact but raises interesting questions about how supposedly identical mice have different levels of drug self-administration. Plus neuroplasticity, livetweeting, nature/nurture, Dan Ariely, brainbows and more over at the latest Encephalon.
Emergiblog is hosting the medical Grand Rounds this week. And we have a Napoleon Dynamite theme – so keep him away from the coral, because that’s no way to fish. But really, a stand-out effort – working movie quotes into the entire carnival. Lots of fun.
Junkfood Science cuts the obesity virus down to size, Doc Gurley takes down the stereotype that being mentally ill means being violent, and other things amanzi, the blog of a surgeon in South Africa, struggles being philosophical about a horrific outcome.
Those and much more at Emergiblog’s Napoleon Dynamite Grand Rounds.
Mundane Ethnography is a site I enjoy, an interdisciplinary mix of anthropology, food, and everyday life. Melissa recently sent me a post that she cherishes with pride and frustration: Cuisine vs. Food: What Is American Cuisine?
As she wrote to me, “I think this post sums up what anthropology should be: deep critical analysis leading to more, pretty much, unanswerable questions. That is the beauty of the discipline.”
In asking What is American Cuisine?, Melissa writes “the term “cuisine” means more than just food, but rather means the big picture around food–the form of expression through food and cooking and how people use food and cooking and eating as a way of expressing identity, even if it is an unconscious or understated form of affiliation and identity.”
By way of answering, I will use some photos from Melissa’s own Flickr site (with a whole range of photos, not just food) – the old cliche of American pie and our signature holiday, Thanksgiving.
So go enjoy more of What is American Cuisine?
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