Apparently taking a page from the Church of Scientology, the Pope has announced that the Catholic Church will now treat all of the Pope’s words as subject to copyright. Those who want to reprint the Pope’s words will have to pay a tithe, … er…. I mean, a royalty of between 3 and 5 [...]

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Is Cultural Anthropology nothing more than legitmized stereotyping? I don’t really think so, but now we can test that hypothesis. The Prejudice Map uses Google results to determine common sterotypes held about nationalities world-wide.
Interestingly, bloggers are known for “expressing strong opinions succinctly,” “expressing strong political views,” and “their virility.”

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It’s official — text messaging has finally hit the mainstream in the U.S. (I guess this means we’ve finally caught up to Japan circa 1998…) For the first time, I received over a dozen “happy holidays” text messages from friends around the U.S. and I think that might actually exceed the number I [...]

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