So, yesterday I bought a GRE prep book. Started studying this morning. Reading through the beginning I laughed out loud when I came across this paragraph: “[while taking the GRE] You will see a fourth, unidentified, experiment section on your GRE. This section will either be Math or Verbal and will look exactly like the [...]
Since I’ve started at Sun I’ve been thinking a lot about how to best apply my education in anthropology to the projects we’re working on. It’s early, but so far I’ve been exploring the different ways humans interface with technology with the hope of designing effective educational content. The process of settling in has been [...]
As some of you know, I recently finished a video tribute to the late anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis with one of my former professors and mentors, Harald Prins, and my good friend and former classmate, Jessie Stone. A couple weeks back it had its debut screening at Oxford University at the annual Society for Anthropology of [...]
An interesting article was brought to my attention via Twitter this afternoon. Melanie McBride tweeted an article written last December that presents the complex issue of self celebration on the web through a particularly unsettling case of a Facebook group named 30 Reasons Girls Should Call It A Night where thousands of posted pictures depict [...]
Although I’m taking a hiatus from formal schooling, I’d like to keep my mind sharp and my anthropological repertoire up to snuff. I’ve been planning on creating a reading list of all the most critical sociological and anthropological (and everything in between) texts I and others can think of. A few I have thought about, [...]
Yesterday afternoon my brother and I went on an hour-long bike ride along the San Diego coast. The weather was amazing and the view from Coast Hwy is remarkable, especially near the Carlsbad area. Since this was my first time riding in dense traffic on a road bike and this is something I have never [...]
After reading a post on Savage Minds about how HBO’s The Wire might be ‘our best ethnographic text on the U.S. today’ I decided to check it out. I don’t typically watch TV let alone TV series, with the exception of a few choice shows, but I must say: The Wire is a masterpiece. It’s [...]
