This video has been going around. If you are not emotionally reasonably well shored up at the moment, don’t even think about watching it.
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Daily Archives: December 4, 2011
This transition can kill you
I started writing this post on this blog but when I was done I realized it was anthropology so I put it here. If you are feeling a bit unsure of yourself emotionally don’t go there, let other people look and we’ll get back to you.
There are no atheists on the editorial page!!!11!!
Racism in the presidential pardon system
The pardon process relies on the recommendations of a special office of the White House, which takes a number of factors (not skin color) into account overtly, including things like level of remorse or financial or family factors. The process was, wisely one would have thought, depoliticized by George Bush at the beginning of his first term, so that the professional pardon lawyers’ recommendations are routinely followed, plus or minus only small variations….
New York City Traffic Signs in Poetic Form
The idea is that if you hear or see the same phrase or symbol again and again you grow habituated to it. For instance, right now, think about where you work or go to school (or some other non-residential interior where you spend considerable time) and tell me where the Exit signs and fire extinguishers are. You might well know, or you might have grown so used to them that they are in the background.
The City of New York has placed a number of signs warning pedestrians, bikers, and drivers, of the usual hazards, but using an unusual technique: New symbols linked to haiku.
Traffic warning street signs written as haiku are appearing on poles around the five boroughs, posted by the New York City Department of Transportation. The poems and accompanying artwork were created by artist John Morse. There are 12 designs in all, 10 in English and two in Spanish.
“Poetry has a lot of power,” Morse tells NPR’s Scott Simon. “If you say to people: ‘Walk.’ ‘Don’t walk.’ Or, ‘Look both ways.’ If you can tweak it just a bit — and poetry does that — the device gives these simple words power.”
I’ll give you a link.
A link that you can follow.
Just click on this word.