Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins

"Popular culture is defined in part by its immediacy and it is not clear that one can meaningfully understand how it works or what it does without stepping at least temporarily into the realm of the proximate and the passionate." April 16, 2007, http://www.henryjenkins.org/

James Nachtwey on TED Talks

"I was driven by an inherent sense that a picture that revealed the true face of war,
would almost by definition be an anti-war photograph."

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my tangential thoughts: Abstract art is not abstract: an argument for activism

Neurotechnology: Growing a Brain

"Researchers opened thousands of rat skulls over the years,
removed their brains, and cut them into thin slices,
which they kept alive."

In My Language

A M Baggs: "The first part is in my 'native language', and then the second part provides a translation, or at least an explanation. This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not."


Autism Rights

Eyes of Science

Robert ParkeHarrison: The Architect's Brother