In the same day, I took two pictures worth blogging about. So I’ll combine them into one post. Exhibit A: Squirrel eating McDonald’s foodI think it’s Fillet O Fish, in which case I understand if someone left the whole bag. Incidentally a McDonald’s themed picture goes well with the great news of the win for [...]
The “sociology of” blog post of the week is not my own, but rather that of Nick and Ellen. N&E are former students of mine, this year abroad in Rome, who started a travel blog to document their trip. Soon after posting about their time in Assisi, Umbria, and sharing some pics of the Coliseum, [...]
There was a reason for my post on my hair style links. First, I find it amazing that somewhere around 2/5 of web surfers per day land on my blog because of this picture. Second, I think I have found an interesting relationship between a canned hairstyle photo, and that of a rhinoceros. The other [...]
I mentioned this before, but it still gets me: Why is the Shamu article from last summer the third most popular emailed article in the Times? It may seem like I’m obsessed with their top ten list, but the most popular articles to me are some sort of marker for what the “people” (whatever that [...]
I just submitted my paper to the Eastern Sociological Society meetings. Unlike the Midwest or North Central meetings, ESS takes your abstract and then places them into panel sessions. This means that instead of selecting the panel that I feel best matches my paper, I instead provide keywords for my abstract in order to assist [...]
The most popular emailed link at the New York Times online this week is this article, about the social structure of elephants. Here is what I learned today: First, elephants live to be 70 years old. Second, they bury their dead and then visit the grave site for years after the death. Third, they are [...]
