I got the idea for this series from zunguzungu who publishes a collection of links to great posts every Sunday and from Feministe that allows people to self-promote on this day. In this series, I will publish a post every Sunday that will contain links to the posts from my blogroll that I enjoyed the most during the week. These are not the same articles I linked to during the week. These are the ones I would have liked to comment on if only I had time.
Readers should feel free to leave links to their own (or somebody else’s) posts written during the week in question that they believe were especially great. It doesn’t make sense to link to an entire blog because that never works. So please, just the specific posts you really liked this week.
This is what I’ve been reading:
Baron-Cohen tries to defend his indefensible arguments about those bad, insensitive autistics. And Part II.
How to choose an academic journal to submit your article
New opinion survey instrument and political spectrum/landscape tabulator in beta testing
How one’s attitude to traveling evolves as one gets older
What’s wrong with “bros before hos” attitude to life
A post on privilege inspired by me
If you are on the non-academic job market, here are the best ways to handle interactions with a headhunter / recruiter
The geek culture and sexism: do they have to come hand in hand?
Does your university offer you workable solutions to dealing with students who have mental health issues?
Why care about Rabindranath Tagore?
Do your male family members trick you into doing more housework?
Is blogging in decline? Read a post and do a survey. I don’t think it is in decline or likely to be any time soon, which I let the people conducting the survey know as clearly as possible.
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Hi there my dear friend,
I feel funny posting this comment unrelated to the post above, but I remember you mentioned that is the easiest way to get in touch, so I figured, I will give it a try 🙂
I am trying to find an e-reader for my parents that they can use for reading both in English and Russian. I know you really like you Kindle, so I was wondering if you tried reading any free Russian books on it, and how it works if at all, the downloading process, format compatibility, and so on.. My friends in Europe told me about a really cool site with lots of Russian books http://www.flibusta.net, but they use LBook as an e-reader. Unfortunately, it does not look like LBook is sold in US ( turns out it is produced by a Ukrainian e-reader manufacturer, how cool is that ?), and out of those available here, Kindle seems to have the best reviews..
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Oh, I’m so glad to see you comment! This is, indeed, the easiest way. 🙂
Unfortunately, the Kindle doesn’t recognize Russian characters yet. 😦 If only it did, I’d immediately give Kindles to my parents. But for now, if you want to read in Russian, Kindle is not an option. 😦 I hope they take care of this soon.
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This is a brilliant idea, Clarissa, and I don’t say that merely because you have the good taste to like my writing 🙂
I’ve been so out of blogging for some time now that I desperately need a new reading-list, and I see this new addition to your blog providing me with lots of stuff to read. So yay.
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Well, while we’re into shameless self-promotion, I’ve just discovered the “discipline” of “Whiteness Studies”, which I find quite scary and have blogged about it here Whiteness, whiteliness and White Studies | Khanya and invite comments from anyone else who may or may not have enountered it.
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Thank you for the link! I have a feeling people are a little shy to self-promote but I hope that an orgy of truly shameless self-promotion soon begins in this series. 🙂
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Invisible Illness Challenge 23 — I blame the uncreative title on the fact that the inspiration came from Tumblr. But it’s a post about my frustrations with what I like to call “have you tried” syndrome (aka, folks who may not know about one’s condition but who sure do like to give advice anyway).
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Really good new blog by a primary care physician. This week’s post on Ron Paul’s uninsured (and now dead) staffer and EMTALA (“the anti-dumping law that was passed in the 1980s in response to practice of emergency rooms turning out critically ill but uninsured patients onto the street”)
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Via Badtux blog: In case you want to become angry, read this:
Pastor Mike from Florida is making a push for a “National Registry” for atheists in order to let people, mainly Christians, know where these people reside and work in order to witness to these “lost souls” and to boycott their businesses so to not “feed” Satan
http://www.examiner.com/freethought-in-fort-worth/national-registry-for-atheists
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Last link on tech reporter Jolie O’Dell critisizing women-run startups:
Women: Stop making startups about fashion, shopping, & babies. At least for the next few years. You’re embarrassing me.
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/09/19/your-startup-is-inferior/#more-19952
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The quote reminds me of this person who accused me of being an embarrassment to humanity on this blog.
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