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Putting Boundaries on Blurred Lines

September 6, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] Last year Robin Thicke released his hit single “Blurred Lines,” a song that sparked a great deal of controversy in addition to a great deal of twerking. I wish that Thicke’s song had at least a few quotable lines to bring some attention to a discussion of “blurred lines,” and the truly complicated nature of it, but alas, he gives us little to work with. <I hate these blurred lines/I know you want it/But you’re a good girl/The way you grab […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: NPR, sexual assault

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Human Social Genomics

September 5, 2014 by William Eaton

  Evolutionary theory has accustomed us to thinking of our genes as stable and essentially unchanging. Genetic change takes place over generations through mutations that give the bearer a competitive advantage in a specific environment. Genes are what we inherit from our parents and pass on to our children. But the emerging field of human social genomics looks at how environmental factors — low socio-economic status, stress, or pollution, for example — can influence our genes over the course of our lives. […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: genetics, health, inequality, science, stress

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A selection of traveler’s (tall) tales

September 4, 2014 by William Eaton

In the canon of travel literature, few books match The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The tales of his journey are the tallest, many pure fantasy. His book – also called The Book of Marvels and Travels – was one of “the most popular in Medieval Europe.,” available in English, Latin, French, German, and other tongues. Few scholars believe Mandeville existed. All have speculated on the author’s true identity. No one knows for sure. Nonetheless, Travels is a sine qua non of guidebooks. […]

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US History, Short not Sweet

August 31, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link]   From Peter Irons, A People’s History of the Supreme Court: No country on earth grew faster than the United States during the last four decades of the nineteenth century. Between 1860 and 1900 the nation’s population swelled from 31 to 75 million, . . . The number of farms grew from two million to six million, and the development of machines like combines, reapers, and harvesters turned barren land into “amber waves of grain”. . . . It […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: American history, class warfare, farmers, law, slavery

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A Battling Culture: Football and Domestic Violence

August 30, 2014 by William Eaton

I started playing football with my brother’s friends when I was 8 years old, and though baseball turned out to be my sport of choice, I can understand what love of a sport feels like. With the recent outcry over the NFL’s decision to give a 2-game suspension to Ray Rice after his domestic violence dispute caught on camera, discussion is emerging about how football itself might be at the root of the problem. This week the NFL issued new punishment rules […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR

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An American Romance?

August 29, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link]   “I hate to see somebody get screwed,” Maggio said. “Then you might as well get use to it,” the Chief said. “You probly be seein it often before you die.” These lines summarize the dilemma dramatized in James Jones’s 1951 bestseller, From Here to Eternity; do we get used to injustice, accommodate to it, accept it, or do we do something about it? Readers may be surprised at this interpretation, for the cultural imprint left by the […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: fiction, Hollywood, homosexuality, literature, social justice

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Woven Wind – Shadow of the Silk Road, 3 of 3

August 28, 2014 by William Eaton

Part 1 is introduces the Silk Road, the world’s best known itinerary Read part 2 (21 Aug) about the Road’s ethnic diversity ranging from Europe to Korea   “Magic clung about it always. The earliest silk – the Indians called it woven wind – was sheer as gauze.” Colin Thubron’s splendid travelogue, Shadow of the Silk Road, winds through Afghanistan and Iran. He spends his last night in ancient Antioch. Today called Antakya, the Silk Road ended – or began – at […]

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“A phrase in connection first with she”

August 24, 2014 by William Eaton

  I have long wanted to write in praise of the Bob Dylan song “Love is Just a Four-Letter Word,” a song that Dylan has apparently never recorded, but that Joan Baez has been performing since 1965. In a documentary about Dylan, Baez is shown saying that she was with Dylan when he first heard her recording of the song on the radio. She says that he said, “Hey, that’s a great song!”, apparently having forgotten that he had written […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Bob Dylan, dialogue, isolation, love, Martin Scorsese, narrative, philosophy of language, poetry, popular music, relationships, songs

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How Humans Relate: Can a Taco and Beer Beat a Bucket of Ice?

August 23, 2014 by William Eaton

Social media has always confounded me for the immeasurable ways that it has so suddenly yet drastically altered our social interactions. Everything that we do and say was built on the foundation of our physical interactions and relationships with other people. In order to survive, we had to be in the same space as other people, and thus we have learned every single physical movement, gesture, facial expression, and not to mention language and voice intonation, in the reflection of ourselves through […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: Facebook, humans, social media

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