I really can't keep up with all the discussion on this email list, but here's another gem ( Read more... )

From here"Climate change triggers system justification among privileged classes because it really does carry a threat to the system! It implies an argument for global governance when [Conservative White Men] are nationalistic, an argument for egalitarianism when they are hierarchical, an argument for conservation when they love capitalism, an ( Read more... )

I found this book to be quite annoying, and only read the first 100 pages or so (I would have stopped sooner if I hadn't been stuck on an airplane with little else to do). However, it does have some good passages, and here is one ( Read more... )

Gibson, James William. 2009. A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a new Kinship with Nature. New York: Metropolitan Books.

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"The 'new animism" has generated some important academic debates, but it is perhaps better expressed and more joyfully celebrated in the books of writers as various as Alan Garner, Leslie Silko, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, Daniel Quinn, David Abram, Linda Hogan, Patricia Grace, Chinua Achebe, Ursula Le Guin, Louise Erdrich and Marge Piercy ( Read more... )

21 interactions in 6 different base models is way too many. Seriously now.

They're not 100% finished, but the base is done.

Next I will test interactions (selectively - NOT all possible pairs of IVs), and work on interpretation.

virgilsego might get a kick out of this:

Atheists offer pet rescue for Judgement Day

Are finally sorted out for the summer. To celebrate my brother's impending wedding, my immediate family will be hosting a party for my extended family - the British side. So I'll be near London (a couple of hours away, I think) for the first week of August ( Read more... )

Recently I've received a couple of invitations from open access publishers, to write something and publish it. One was from SAGE (a general call for papers), and another from InTech, on a particular topic that I've published something vaguely related to in peer-reviewed paper journal ( Read more... )