All posts tagged anthropology
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Leaders fight wars in the name of peace what a burden it must be.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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iAds have landed and they are ringing the bells of the cash registers for developers/media owners. One reported on hacker news earnings on their first day of $1,372.20. That's a fair chunk of cash when you...
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Classical music is nothing to cough at, it is often seen as a serious affair, with many dressing for the occasion. On Friday I went the Royal Festival Hall, London, to see Daniel Barenboim and the...
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It’s 2010 and recently I’ve been thinking more about what seems like a shift in foreign policy and global politics. I love conspiracy theories, from aliens to JFK, the Beatles to 911. This post largely will...
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This isn’t about politics. This isn’t about religious ethics. This is about human lives. This is about my olive harvest trip to Palestine in October 2009. This is about how the Nazi holocaust has been fashioned...
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Image via Wikipedia I think sometimes I ask way too much of a computer, then other times I despair at fairly simple mistakes. This one comes in the form of incapitability of Microsoft Office 2007 with…...
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I watched two fascinating videos which emerged from TED. The first by Dan Ariely, entitled “Are we in control of our own decisions?” and the second is by Malcolm Gladwell who talks naturally on spaghetti sauce....
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Being out in New York for the first time reminds me of the first time I went to Universal Studios. Landing with excitement of a kid in line for the ET ride, I saw the Manhattan...
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I spend countless hours travelling on trains and pounding the streets of England. Mainly in and around London, where I’m sure the problem is amplified. But England really is full of rubbish, everywhere I see small...