Stewart on the Coca-cola Superbowl ad

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart tackles the brouhaha over Coca-cola's multilingual Superbowl ad.

Quick take: The Smothers Brothers

The Smothers Brothers sing the "anthropologist" verse of the song "My Old Man."


 

Is this legal now?

I wouldn't be surprised, what with the Regressives in Congress and all...

On a lighter note...

A monument to lab rats used in DNA research; Novosibirsk, Russia.  Not sure who the photo really belongs to.

End of semester blues

It's that time of year.  A student writing on circumcision included this bit of information:

When circumcisions are performed here in the United States the male is given Anastasia to numb the pain…

 Thank goodness!

Homer votes!

Mitt Romney: a human being who built that

Narrated by Mr. Spock:

The gathering of the Republicans

Irony!

Here I am at the door of one of my Fall 2012 classrooms.  I'll be teaching Introduction to Anthropology (ANT 2000) to about 200 students, with no help from a teaching assistant. Can you say "multiple choice?"  I was there this morning to see if my key opened the door (it did), and whether the lapel mic was working (it was).

I've taught here a number of times over the years, and each time I've thought that I should take a photo of this wall plaque outside the room, but I never got around to it.  Until today.

Oh, and the irony?  The classroom is located in the College of Health...

Interview with George Carlin

George Carlin (1937-2008) discusses his life and career in this absorbing interview:

Is Obama a socialist?

The Daily Show tries to find out...

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What is a linguist?

So you know a linguist

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Summing up the previous post

"Incomprehensible shouting" is US official language

Incomprehensible Shouting Named Official U.S. Language

Bill O'Reilly thinks the tides can't be explained

Stephen Colbert and Neil DeGrasse Tyson help him out:

                                   

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Why anthropologists are special

Yeah, I know, I've posted a lot of cartoons and such lately but hey...  And by the way, it's called participant observation.

Science is good

From XKCD.com, one of the weirdest cartoon sites ever, but still...

Some fun with derivational morphology

From today's Dilbert:

The Simpsons meet Avatar

Interesting...

From a friend:

Did you know that the words "race car" spelled backwards still spells
"race car"?

That "eat" is the only word that, if you take the 1st letter and move
it to the last, spells its past tense, "ate"?

And if you rearrange the letters in "so-called tea party Republicans,"
and add just a few more letters, it spells: "Shut the hell up you
free-loading, progress-blocking, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking,
violent, hypocritical assholes, and face the fact that you nearly
wrecked the country under Bush."