The Withering Anonymity
How’s the post-privacy world working for you?
Bookslut
Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature By John Mullan: Author Mullan reveals that the celebration of personality has all but done away with anonymity as a commodity. Credit goes to Mullan for term: “withering anonymity.”
Salon
What does Sarah Palin have to hide in her Yahoo emails?: Glenn Greenwald highlights the hypocrisy of the party that did away with privacy rights:”Shouldn’t these same people be standing up today and insisting that if Sarah Palin has done nothing wrong, then she should have nothing to hide?”
WebMD
Your Body Holds Clues to Political Views: Conservative or liberal? Even if you’re not telling, your body knows: more fearful responses, more authoritarian controls.
Mind Readers
Will brain scans betray our guilt or explain spiritual revelations? Why the upswing in bipolar disease? Can you parse a visual grammar, or read a lover’s mind from long-distance?
International Herald Tribune
India’s use of brain scans in courts dismays: Orweillian mind-purge or the latest in forensic science?
New York Times Magazine
The Bipolar Puzzle: With diagnosis of this disease on the rise, chances are good that you know someone who is afflicted.
VizThink
Visual language vs. visual communication: As the internet embraces non-textual communications to take advantage of our varying modalities, we are confronted with concepts such as visual grammar. Here are a series of podcasts to explain the differences between communication and language.
The Clarion Review
Comfort, a poem: Reading a lover’s mind over a long-distance connection.
Science & Spirit
Flesh Made Soul: Can a new theory in neuroscience explain spiritual experience to a nonbeliever?
Ya feel me?
There’s pain all over; we feel it.
Wall Street Journal Blog
Lehman Employees and the Wall Street Compensation: Along with all their other creditors, many of Lehman’s 24,000 employees are fighting for their piece of the pie–their salaries, tied up in stocks. Get in line.
Moscow Times
Mixing Love Triangles With Global Affairs: Russia wants to be liked by the West. Really. But the US can’t love anyone with ties to the KGB. Really?
StandPoint Magazine
Writers, Visible and Invisible: Think you know a writer? Not likely, Cynthia Nozick writes: “Writers are what they genuinely are only when they are at work in the silent and instinctual cell of ghostly solitude, and never when they are out industriously chatting on the terrace”.
in character
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, I Feel Your Pain After All: “Mirror neurons may hold the key to understanding how human beings respond to one another.”
