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Summer reading reflections from a group of scholars, Followup on Rice U Press etc…
Pollution-Sensing lung tumor from Daisy Ginsberg’s project Synthetic Kingdom VIA Reflections on summer reading from The Immanent Frame by The Editors As the start of the fall semester inches closer, we’ve invited a handful of our contributors...
Turkey has to negotiate for membership with countries who have f*ckhead statesmen like Thio Sarrazin…
Jewish gene, Muslim brains talk tarnishes Bundesbank from Hurriyet Dailynews by HDN Migrants from countries such as Turkey and Morocco depend on the state and are making the country ‘dumber,’ Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin claims.
Metalhead (5)- Iron Maiden tops
album of the week The Final Frontier (Mission Edition) ~ Iron Maiden Honestly, I wasn’t too excited about. But it is a good piece of work. Special focus on “The Talisman” erkan’s best of- song 006-007 KROKUS – Hoodoo Wom...
Second week on my TV career
I am now heading to studio. I guess I will not need to be there this early as the program starts at 23:00 at TRT Haber but for the first weeks I have to be there and supervising…. I won’t be in the screen tonight, too but I will appear ev...
Sweden’s chief prosecutor is still after Julian Assange
Sexual Assault Case Against WikiLeaks Founder Reopened from Mashable! by Stan Schroeder Sweden’s chief prosecutor has reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Recently, Assange was accused with crimes of molestation a...
Can Erol: FIBA 2010- Everything is going fantastic now!
Kerem Tunceri of Turkey celebrates scoring against Greece during their FIBA Basketball World Championship game in Ankara August 31, 2010.… Read more » Kerem Tunceri of Turkey celebrates scoring against Greece during their FIBA Basketball World Cha...
not only prevention, your attempt to access the site is “recorded”- arrogant filtering everywhere…
When I was trying to access Daily Motion, it was filtered in all Teacher Guest Houses I stayed during my Eastern Anatolia trip. This aggressive warning appeared… Related posts:the AAA way in Open Access! “Open Access at Duke "Open Acc...
“Pine Cone Anthropology in Afghanistan
The Loaded Goat: Revisiting Pine Cone Anthropology in Afghanistan from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by M. Jamil Hanifi The diary of Ted the Tongue reveals more about the poverty of the academic thinking and conduct that provisions the “Comparative Cultural Co...
TESEV report: Serap Yazıcı on Constitutional Changes (in Turkish)
Click here to download the report. Related posts:"TESEV Kurdish Report A report on Turkish bloggers Constitutional Court violates Constitution again but not prevents a possible Constitutional change… Report: Ergenekon is our reality TESEV:...
Europe goin’ crazy: Sarkozy to go his Roma policy, Swiss initiative to re-introduce death penalty….
MAIN FOCUS: Europe unsettled by death penalty initiative | 25/08/2010 from euro|topics The campaign to collect signatures on reintroducing the death penalty in Switzerland was stopped by its initiators today, Wednesday, a day after it began...
Introducing Turkish Cybersphere (10)- digital PR agencies, a list of active blogs and active forums etc….
a list of blogs recommended by Turkish FriendFeed users here: http://www.ruhunevrenselcansikintisi.com/ http://www.tameroz.com/tr… http://mustafaacungil.blogspot.com/ http://daron.yondem.com/tr… http://www.cengizhan.com/ http://www.nurica...
Pamuk says ‘yes’ to reform package… Towards referendum (7)
Nobel winner Pamuk says ‘yes’ to reform package Today’s Zaman Turkey’s Nobel-prize winning author Orhan Pamuk has said he will vote “yes” on the Sept. 12 referendum on a constitutional amendment package. … Turkish op...
Max Forte on Israeli Penetration of the American Media
Israeli Penetration of the American Media: Documents Released from OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY by Maximilian Forte Internal documents from an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, finding that millions of dolla...
Erkan’s Field Diary: Top posts of the week and the month
found here:http://paperbullet.com/ VIA Top Posts for 7 days ending 2010-08-29 1- A video: Turkish Porn Star Şahin K’s comedy film trailer 2- Welcome to Beşiktaş, Guti! – 15 thousand attends the ceremony in İnönü 3- Elif: Aşk-ı Memnu: Forb...
Dylan and philosophy: special section from Philosophy & Social Criticism
check out the latest issue. Philosophy and the Habits of Critical Thinking by Reflection Cafe Interview with John Searle (California Univ.-Berkeley) … Is it hard to do philosophy? It’s murder, absolutely. I compare it … if you reall...
Erkan is back with his new toy: Sony Vaio
a few hours before my flight to Dublin, my old Sony Vaio had its last breath. I had to borrow Nurdan’s laptop. In Maynooth campus where I had stayed, IT stuff could not fix the connection problem so i had no connection for the last two days. I...
Elif: Fazıl Say: Fascist or partisan of freedom?
Almost a month ago, a discussion erupted after pianist Fazıl Say’s these statements: ‘Arabesque music is the picture of arabesque lifestyle. This music weighs upon enlightenment and modernity. It’s against labor and it’s nor creative neith...
Sevcan on last night’s episode: “We are waiting your tweets for @sosyalmedyatv on Twitter!
We had our first social media program at TRT Haber channel last night. Actually, even our program consultant Erkan Saka had no idea about the program circulation. (because he is in Ireland now and we are jealous.) So we could not write about before i...
Erkan’s TV career (!) begins tonight
I am an advisor to a weekly TV program on social media that will be launched tonight! It will be broadcasted in TRT Haber channel. If I could be in Turkey, I would probably be in the TV screen for a little while talking about the goodies of social me...
finally Istanbul’s annoying (!) stray cats gets coverage:)
In this Aug 18, 2010 file photo a cat lays on top of a table in a cafe in Istanbul, Turkey. Many a visitor to Turkey has noted the abundance of stray cats in the old imperial capital of Istanbul. They amble and lounge around some mosques and have the...
