Archive for November, 2005
Neurobiology vs. Psychoanalysis
My brother reports on how the media is reacting to the riots in France:
My favorite TV program for the examination of television, Arrêt sur Images, had, as one of their guests this weekend the mayor of Clichy-sous-bois, the city at the epicenter of the recent events.
One of the commentators on the show was discussing how […]
Endorsements
Here is a good overview of political endorsements for tomorrow’s NY mayoral election. Interestingly, a number of unions are supporting Bloomberg:
For decades, nationally and locally, unions provided key support for Democratic candidates. But this year, Bloomberg, a billionaire and nominal Republican who in the past has had his house picketed by some city workers, has […]
Falsity
Post of the month:
It turns out that the false information about Iraq’s supposedly training al-Qaeda operatives in the use of chemical and biological weapons — information which the Administration continued to push after the Defense Intelligence Agency determined that the source of it was in no position to know — was extracted under torture. (Hat […]
Privacy
I long ago discovered that the best way to reduce the amount of SPAM is to have two e-mail addresses, one private and one public. I use the private one for writing to friends and for professional work, only listing the public one on the web. Now I even have a third, gmail account, I […]
Devanagari
Although the film will be shot in Gujarat, Shashwati does all the interviews in Hindi, and in the future we are likely to be visiting North India on a semi-annual basis, so I figured I ought to start studying Hindi. I made an initial stab at it during our last trip, but didn’t get very […]
Moral Considerations
I recently read the following in a New Yorker article:
Scowcroft is a protégé of Henry Kissinger—he was his deputy when Kissinger was Richard Nixon’s national-security adviser. Like Kissinger, he is a purveyor of a “realist” approach to foreign policy: the idea that America should be guided by strategic self-interest, and that moral considerations are secondary […]
Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox Extensions which allows you to more easily manage your tabs: When tabs overflow the first line they wrap around and can fill a second, third, or even a fourth line. You can install a toolbar widget that lists all open tabs, and you can re-open any recently closed tabs. […]
Wisdom Writers
I recently told someone that I think I learned more in high school than in college and graduate school combined. So it pleases me greatly that one of the regular readers of Keywords (and the first person to make a donation to the site) is a former high school teacher. I have not seen her […]
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
