SEPTEMBER 2009 CULTURE ITEMS
[Telegraph.co.uk]
A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
18 Sep 2009 5:50 pm EST
[City Journal]
America's food revolution: urban revival, globalization, and some world-class chefs have created one of the world’s great culinary scenes.
18 Sep 2009 5:47 pm EST
[Jonathan Feinberg]
Haiku finder.
18 Sep 2009 9:23 am EST
[IEP]
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a peer-reviewed academic resource.
7 Sep 2009 12:35 pm EST
[Telegraph.co.uk]
Popular fairy tales and folk stories are more ancient than was previously thought, according research by biologists.
7 Sep 2009 12:34 pm EST
[The Modern Word]
Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt, by Umberto Eco.
6 Sep 2009 6:51 pm EST
[Washington Monthly]
The next generation of online education could be great for students—and catastrophic for universities.
6 Sep 2009 6:50 pm EST
[Save The Words]
You can keep these words from going extinct...save a word today!
4 Sep 2009 12:18 pm EST
[infochimps]
Find any dataset in the world.
3 Sep 2009 11:27 pm EST
[Guardian.co.uk]
This reveals something profound about environmentalism: it is not really a campaign to find solutions to the practical problem of climate change, but rather has become a semi-religious, almost medieval demonisation of human behaviour as dirty and destructive. This is really a priestly, ideological effort to lower people's horizons and expectations, rather than a focused attempt to create a less polluted planet.
3 Sep 2009 11:21 pm EST