The school newspaper asked me to answer some questions about Valentine’s Day. Please find the transcript attached: Aloha Dr. Golub, Thank you for taking time to answer these brief questions, as well as providing any additional insight you think might be of interest to our readers. My questions are: Is there an anthropological basis for [...]
Good lord: “Barrick-recommended military force burns down hundreds of homes in PNG”:http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/30/18592070.php And this from the Post Courier: “Porgera locals to sue government”:http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20090501/news01.htm Update 1 May 09 17:30: Here’s a roundup of some more links. Some of these pages are being edited while live so sometimes the content changes. Radio New Zealand: “PNG Denies Paper [...]
Holy overlap, batman: Kwame Anthony Appiah, whose book I’m teaching this semester, has a very nice documentary on BBC about Obama which features both his Hawai’i connection (including his mother’s time in my current department) and his time at the University of Chicago (including snippets of an interview with a former member of my MA [...]
The Globe and Mail is running a longish article on “Papua New Guinea and China’s New Empire”:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081231.wyorkchina0103/CommentStory/International/home. The piece begins with a description of China’s ‘new empire’ and its use of soft power, especially in Africa, and ends with a discussion of the Ramu nickel mine. It is an interesting piece, although not as interesting [...]
Mike Manning, chair of Transparency International and a major player in the “Institute for National Affairs”:http://www.inapng.com/ “died Saturday in Rabaul”:http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2344888.htm?tab=pacific. Mike was a naturalized citizen of Papua New Guinea and he epitomized a certain sort of crusty, cynical Australian expatism that is such a strong — and ambivalent — part of PNG’s history.I did not [...]
I’ve always sort of wondered by happened to Sean Young and why she didn’t become the next Julia Roberts. Then to my surprise the other day I picked up Entertainment Weekly (yes, I read Entertainment Weekly) to find a whole article on “what happened to Sean Young and why she is not Julia Roberts”:http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20056516,00.html. I [...]
A BBC article on “post-WoW mmogs”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6619875.stm is the leaping off point for a new Gamasutra article entitled “The Academics Speak: Is There Life After Worlds of Warcraft”:http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1675/the_academics_speak_is_there_life_.php?page=1 which features, among others, “Jeff McNeill”:http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1675/the_academics_speak_is_there_life_.php?page=3
Here’s one more piece from Reuters on “the AMA’s attempt to pathologize playing video games”:http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2425415820070624?sp=true.
Scott McLeod has written a “brief piece on professors who blog”:http://techlearning.com/showArticle.php?articleID=196604461 which features a few quotes from me in it. Its good — I wish I had the paper magazine which, afaik, has the longer version of the piece.