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Dec 25, 2007

Love & Sex with Robots

by Cliopatria
Yesterday, I linked to Joel Achenbach's"Programmed for Love," Washington Post, 23 December, a review of David Levy's Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships. But, then, there's this:
- Dec 24, 2007
  
  The Broken Lands and The Terror: Two Novels about the Franklin Expedition
  
  by Cliopatria
  
  Winter seemed an appropriate time to buckle down to Robert Edric's The Broken Lands: A Novel of Arctic Disaster (1992; rpt. 2003) and Dan Simmons' The Terror (2007). Both novels speculate about the still unsolved fate of the Franklin expedition, with some overlap that derives from their shared sources; in particular, Edric and Simmons agree that the men died at least in part from
- Dec 24, 2007
  
  Oscar Peterson, 1925-2007
  
  by Cliopatria
  
  Here are Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, and Coleman Hawkins doing"Sweet Lorraine":
- Dec 24, 2007
  
  KC Watch
  
  by Cliopatria
  
  Few of us make such a large impression -- in academic life, journalism, or blogging -- that we get a whole site devoted to attacking us or our work. I thought that form went out of fashion with the death of SullyWatch 18 months ago, but it's been revived more recently by the anonymous blogger at The Truth about KC Johnson. You have to hope the Anonymous One isn't Duke's"Professor Forthcom
- Dec 23, 2007
  
  Sunday Notes
  
  by Cliopatria
  
  Africa: Jason Roberts,"The Great Opportunist," Washington Post, 23 December, reviews Tim Jeal's Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer; and Douglas Foster,"Imperial Hubris," Washington Post, 23 December, reviews Martin Meredith's Diamonds, Gold, and W
Dec 22, 2007

Saturday Notes

by Cliopatria

Archaeology has announced its list of the Top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2007.
Tim Burke has posted his third syllabus for next semester at Swarthmore, History 8C From Leopold to Kabila: The Bad Twentieth Century in Central Africa. For all his effort, Tim's course doesn't make Family Security Matters' list of the

Dec 21, 2007

Weeks of Dec. 17-24, 2007

by Cliopatria

#1 Jonathan Zimmerman: Steroid scandal challenges American sports myths
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45702.html

#2 Robert KC Johnson: The Electability Canard
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/45651.html

#3 Gil Troy: Hillary Clinton Better Bank on Governing Ability or Electability not Likability
http://

Dec 21, 2007

Short thoughts before Christmas

by Cliopatria

Bush and Congress.
Like it or not, and I don’t, President Bush and his congressional allies have done a masterful job of thwarting the Democrats. Some of this may be fecklessness on the part of Democrats, but a lot of it is the Bush Administration’s very clear understanding of presidential powers.
Whoever the next president is should study this closely—along with Bill Clinton’s ability to use his powers to restrain the Republican Congress of the mid-1990s.
That doesn’t me

Dec 21, 2007

Friday Notes

by Cliopatria

Enid Stubin,"My Time in the Indexing Trade," more intelligent life.com, 19 December, recalls her years at Sydney Wolfe Cohen Associates, the leading indexing service in NYC. Hat tip.
Josh Harkinson,"A Timeline of Libertarian Thought," Mother Jones, 17 December, from John Locke to Ron

Dec 20, 2007

Thursday Notes

by Cliopatria

Caleb Crain's"Twilight of the Books – What will life be like if people stop reading?" New Yorker, 24 December, is supplemented here and here at his blog, Steamboats are ruining everything. If you're in the NYC area, you can

Dec 19, 2007

Associate Professor Herr Doktor Burke Relays Fuhrer Directive #24 From the Pearson Education Program Bunker

by Cliopatria

Or as Jonah Goldberg would say, fascism fascism fascism fascism. Fascist! Fascism. Fascistically!
There really isn't anything to say besides mockery, is there? I'd call it butchery of the English language AND of the discipline of history, but that would imply that Goldberg actually scores wounds on both rather than just hacking into his own flesh.

This might be a better test of

Dec 19, 2007

End of DADT?

by Cliopatria

60 Minutes had a fascinating story this week on the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. The arguments put forth by defenders seemed--to put it mildly--a stretch.
The most intriguing came from Congressman Duncan Hunter, former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Asked by Lesley Stahl about how a military necessity for the policy could be justified given that most western

Dec 19, 2007

Wednesday Notes

by Cliopatria

Ari Kelman,"AHA," The Edge of the American West, 18 December, offers experienced advice about preparing for the interview process at the AHA convention.
Sara Rimer,"Academic Stars Hone Their Online Stagecraft," NYT, 19 December, features physicist W. H. G. Lewin. Our colleague, Manan Ahmed, points out that Stanford's

Dec 19, 2007

Week of Dec. 17-24, 2007

by Cliopatria

Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation believes, along with the British historian Paul Johnson, that words are"the essen tial units on which a civilization rests." Like the former Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel, we have faith in"the power of words to change history." It was Havel's eloquent words as leader of the Civic Forum in the fall of 1989 that sparked the Velvet Revolution an

Dec 18, 2007

More Noted Things

by Cliopatria

At Princeton, another ‘oppressed minority'fabricates another assault. The African American alleged victim in the Duke lacrosse case, the Jewish student at George Washington, and the conservative student at Princeton discredit themsel

Dec 17, 2007

Rising with Inflation?: History Faculty Salaries Over the Last Twenty Years

by Cliopatria

Regular readers of the AHA's Perspectives know that the salaries for history faculty have tended to lag behind the average for other disciplines. I got wondering if we had at least kept pace with inflation (according to the Consumer Price Index). It turns out we are, but with an interesting twist.
Here is what I found out with data available from the

Dec 17, 2007

Weeks of Dec. 17 & 24, 2007

by Cliopatria

Up Front
New Feature: On This Day in History ...
Bonnie Goodman
News at Home
Think Religion Plays a Bigger Role in Politics Today? You're Right. Statistics Prove It.
Kevin Coe and David Domke
The Heirs of Puritanism: That's Us!
George McKenna
The "Wall

Dec 17, 2007

The Electability Canard

by Cliopatria

The Fix is my favorite political blog; throughout the fall, Chris Cillizza has been analyzing the Democratic presidential race as a contest between the party's head (Clinton) and heart (Obama). This approach appears to have factored into yesterday's endorsement of Clinton by the Des Moines Register.

Even as an Obama supporter, however, this line of thought from many Democrats strikes me as odd. Based on public opinion polls

Dec 17, 2007

Things Noted Here and There

by Cliopatria

Keith Thomas,"Mapping the World," Guardian, 15 December, and Tom Holland,"‘Myriads of tiny architects'," Telegraph, 15 December, review John Burrow's A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century.

Dec 16, 2007

Sunday Notes

by Cliopatria

Carnivalesque XXXIV, an early modern edition of the festival, is up at Cardinal Wolsey's Today in History!
Bill Caraher teaches ancient history and historiography at the University of North Dakota and blogs at The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. He has a three part series on"Blo

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