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Grateful Dead Archivist Position

Posted in Media, tagged , , , , , , , on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday the Library and Information Science world was abuzz when the University of California at Santa Cruz announced that it is seeking applicants for a Grateful Dead Archivist position.  According to the job posting, the ideal candidate would have an ALA-accredited MLS (and all of the relevant professional knowledge and experience that such training entails) [...]

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The Word of God in the Age of the Toyota Prius

Posted in Capitalism, Environmentalism, Evangelicalism, Pastoral, The Bible, tagged , , , , , , on October 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

*Special thanks to Stephen Greenblatt, whose clever palimpsest of Walter Benjamin may be the best title formula ever.
It’s time to discard your old Bible and purchase the new HarperCollins Green Bible.  That’s right, the Bible, much like just about everything else in our culture these days, is going green.  It has gone green.  No wait, that’s [...]

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Fighting for the Right to Hang…Laundry

Posted in Environmentalism, News, Pastoral, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »

One man fights for freedom in the United States. Freedom to dry your clothes outside, that is.

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Scientific Authority and Contemporary Culture

Posted in Science, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

For a long time, I have been fascinated with Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment from the early 1960s on obedience and institutional authority. Milgram’s work is, one could argue, at once the most well-known and unethical experiments in the history of psychological research. Yet I am intrigued by this experiment, not because of what [...]

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