Marc | May 31, 2009
Right now, most of my attention and time is focused on music. In particular, the Ottawa Bach Choir in which I sing 2nd Bass, is getting ready for our third European tour. As with our two previous tours, we will be choir in residence at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig (Bach’s old church) and, let me [...]
Marc | May 25, 2009
Joel Garreau at the Washinton Post has a very interesting article posted yesterday called TONGUE IN CHECK: With Translation Technology On Their Side, Humans Can Finally Lick the Language Barrier (hat tip to Adam Russell). The story is well worth reading for a number of reasons.
Marc | May 19, 2009
The University of Chicago has posted the audio of presentations at their 2008 conference on Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency (hat tip to Savage Minds). I hope that any recordings (audio, video, whatever) from this years CASCA conference will be available sooner. It is hard to have an open, public discussion about issues when large amounts [...]
Marc | May 18, 2009
Over the past several months, I have been doing a lot of thinking about how people think. This has led me down some rather odd trails, but I thought I would toss out a few ideas and see what people think.
Marc | May 7, 2009
FM 3-07-1 Security Force Assistance was released on May 5th month by TRADOC (announcement here, PDF here). I have been waiting for this one since I saw an early draft of it several months ago. As I feared, I was underwhelmed by the chapters dealing with culture.
Marc | May 1, 2009
A couple of friends / colleagues are in the process of putting together an historical sourcebook on “terrorism” which, IMO, will be very useful. As a part of this process, I just got a copy of their draft introduction which has started me thinking that it is time to formalize some of my current thinking [...]
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