On May 15, 1948, 65 years ago Jewish Zionist militias launched a massive attack on the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine to ethnically cleanse them from their land in order to establish Israel as their Jewish state. This lead more than 750,000 Palestinians to flee their homes and become displaces as refugees in the neighboring countries. Most of the families that fled did not even have time to pack their belonging or anything in fear of being massacred by the vicious Jewish militias who went through villages massacring its inhabitants who refused to leave, most of whom were poor villagers and unarmed farmers.
“We must do everything to insure they never return. The old will die and the young will forget” David Ben-Gurion – First Prime Minister of Israel, 1949.
We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. And one day, soon, we will return!
Costco CEO Craig Jelinek supports raising the minimum wage.
Costco announced record profits today, averaging $10,000 in profit per employee compared to $7,400 at Walmart.
The secret to Costco’s success is paying employees well, providing benefits, and giving them an opportunity to unionize.So large corporations’ excuses that treating & paying workers well would damage profits are all a crock of shit.
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This might be my favorite tweet of all time
ahahahahaha perfect. sounds like a great twitter
I love to people watch. It’s probably why I became an Anthropologist. Nothing excites me more than to be out and about in a densely occupied area and to observe all that is going on around. One of my favorite people watching places is conferences. Now, my specialization within Anthropology is in Prehistoric Archaeology of the Near East, specifically Iran and Central Asia. This field has its own special conferences and workshops, but I am currently too junior a scholar and too without-funding to attend these events. I doubt very much that what I’ve observed at major field-wide conferences differs greatly from at these smaller to-dos, but rather, likely proceeds on a much smaller scale. Two conferences come to mind, in particular, the Society for American Archaeology 2012 in Memphis, and the American Institute of Archaeology 2012 in Philadelphia.
At these two conferences, I kept seeing the same styles of hair and beards all over the place. At the AIA’s it was a foppishly sweeping preppy bowl cut, along on top, parted strongly over to one side and short on the sides and back, reminiscent of southern dandies and British gentlemen. I saw it in blonde, brown, mouse, black, salt and pepper and all the different varieties, but there were no less than thirty different men at that conference sporting the same ‘do.
At the SAA’s it wasn’t on the top of the heads that caught my attention, but rather the beards. This trend was more pronounced. The beard resembles an Abe Lincoln, but creeps up onto the cheek ever so slightly. It is characterized by thin sideburns that flare out at the turn of the jaw and swoop up to the mustache, with a considerable goatee area. Usually it was kept fairly trim, but certain fellas were sporting some wildly askew whiskers.
I don’t think there’s really much more to this than at some point along the line, there was some Archaeologist who was a real bamf, who had a distinctive style. That style was copied by his students, and then by his students, and their students. I suppose the interesting part is that the Classicists at the AIA’s tended toward a more “Ivy League” or English style, whereas the Prehistorians at the SAA’s tended toward a more rugged, midwestern, outdoorsy style of capillary self expression.
The question then is, who was this mythical proto-bamf who set these trends in motion? As far as the beards are concerned, its an easy solution: Binford. Its the Binford beard. There is no question about it. You could even trace its genealogy from Binford to academic son to academic grandchild if you really wanted to. As for the fop flip? Beats me. Perhaps someone with a bit more knowledge might clue me in!
Like, THIS THIS ALL OF THIS, but I don’t think this graphic alone even demonstrates how bad the situation is.
Here’s another one of the images from the article:
Not only are men overwhelmingly the authors of scientific papers, but when women *are* given authorship, it’s somewhere in the middle of the author list.
This might seem a little irrelevant if you’re unfamiliar with the academy, so here’s a helpful primer, courtesy PhD comics:
Just to reiterate: the first author led the project. The last author (the PI) heads the lab. These are, really, the only two names anyone reading the paper cares about, even though the peeps in the middle (third author to third-to-last author) did the lion’s share of the actual science.
Women are the worker bees of the scientific academy. They’re admitted to tech and beginning graduate groups in droves, but the glass ceiling hits hard somewhere between their post-doc and first tenured position.
Women are doing science. They just aren’t getting any of the credit.
Reblogged for this excellent commentary. I’m more aware of how discrimination works in Humanities, so it’s interesting to have more information on the science field specific bias.
If anyone’s curious about this and wants a more thorough breakdown, Cordelia Fine’s book “Delusions of Gender,” is pretty excellent. Also I have the pdf if you want it, just inbox me. c:
Can’t not reblog
Steve Carell, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert: How men would look if they had to pose in ads the way women are expected to. (via Pinterest)
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Ingredients:
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