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Sunday, 29 June 2008
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Columbia, MO, USA. Virtually anything can be the topic of scientific study, but a male researcher finds that men doing field research on women are limited to certain subjects. So says Robert M. Baum, a professor of religious studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU), who has dealt with this challenging situation in the field for over 30 years.
Most societies restrict the rights of women. One available stragem is to find a compelling rationale that secures female privacy away from male interference. Women's spaces that focus on a woman's reproductive cycle and fertility often enjoy male protection since men perceive such things as in their self-interest, promoting male potency. Women, in turn, can use the women's space for issues private to them that go beyond fertility rites and do so out of view from men.
From a Boy Not Seeking a Wife to a Man Discussing Prophetic Women: A Male Fieldworker Among Diola Women in Senegal 1974–2005. Robert M. Baum. Men and Masculinities 2008. doi: 10.1177 / 1097184X08315093.
"The question of whether men can conduct field research on women ultimately will be determined by the quality and type of the data that they gather," says Baum. "The subject matter of the field research will profoundly shape the possibilities of success.
For example, access to women's ritual spaces and esoteric knowledge may be too restricted for male researchers. Research on female religious leaders whose teachings are designed for both men and women and who preside over mixed congregations will be far more fruitful for men to conduct."
 His conclusions about male researchers studying female subjects are based on his extensive observations of the Diola (pronounced joe-la) people. The modern Diola
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008
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St. Louis, MO, USA. Imagine a bunch of curious Japanese tourists stepping gingerly through the ruins of a once-grand avenue of urban America, gawking at deserted and burned-out hulks of historic buildings, wondering how a great city could have sunken so low.
Eleven years ago, Washington Avenue in St. Louis was declining rapidly, the downtown prospects grim. And the rest of the St. Louis region didn’t seem to care.
So in a 1997 series for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, my Citistates Group coauthor Curt Johnson and I arbitrarily picked 2010 as the year foreigners might come poking through the ruins of Washington Avenue. They’d be witnessing, we suggested, the tragic end point of thhe flight from of Americ
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Lisa Thompson & Sharon Gaughan
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Wednesday, 18 June 2008
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Washington, DC, USA. The alarm goes off at five in the morning, we are due at the festival at eight where we will assemble our booth, put up banners and signs, place handouts strategically to be distributed.
The rain the night before prevented us from loading the car, so we spend an hour or so demonstrating how much stuff can fit in an aging Buick. We bring everything we have we think we’ll need, only enough to fill up the day so that the trip back will be somewhat lighter.
It’s Marketing 501: How many Mardi Gras beads? How many TS-Si orange pens? How many copies of each information sheet? If we run out, we can’t come back. If we had known what we knew at the end of the day, we would have taken fewer bea
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Saturday, 08 March 2008
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Nashville, TN, USA. The arrival of daylight-saving time this weekend means extra time for evening yard work or barbecues, but for some it also means sleepy days at work and even a bit of crankiness. This year, clocks moved forward one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 9. That hour of lost sleep shouldn’t cause any long-term health hazard, but it may require some adjustment time, said Beth Malow, M.D., associate professor of Neurology and medical director of the Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center.
“Even if we try to go to bed earlier to compensate,” Malow explains, “our schedules will be off, so some of us will feel a little crankier the next day. It’s kind of like traveling and having jet lag.”
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008
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Seattle, WA, USA. If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources. But if you're hunting down a person or a thing, a computer's not much help. That may soon change. When confronted by emerging science and technology, the public must determine the proper balance between privacy and utility. Electronic tags promise to create what some call the "Internet of things," in which objects and people are connected through a virtual network.
To see what this future world would be like, a pilot project involving dozens of volunteers at the University of Washington (UW) will explore one vision of what the future may provide in social networking. The project will wirelessly monitor people and things in a c |
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Sunday, 30 December 2007
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Monday, 30 June 2008
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Friday, 11 April 2008
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 TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Warwick, UK and Hanover, NH. There is an extraordinarily consistent international pattern in depression and happiness levels. Many previous studies of the life-course had suggested that psychological well-being stayed relatively flat and consistent as we aged. However, using da |
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 TS-Si News Service Saturday, 12 January 2008 Washington, DC, USA. One of the most awkward moments for anyone born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS fna transsexuality) can occur during transition. It is a time when the HBS men and women are living as their post transition sex but before the legal changes have occu
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 TS-Si News Service Monday, 31 December 2007 Durham, NH, USA. Do you have the shopping gene? It could come in handy. Some people view shopping as a blood sport. The period after an annual holiday season can call on all of a bargain hunters resources. Certain shoppers appear to exhibit distinct cognitive skills |
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 TS-Si News Service Monday, 03 December 2007 2 out of 3 on shaky financial ground
Waltham, MA, USA. Fewer than one in three middle-class families in America is financially secure. The remaining majority are either borderline or at high risk of falling out of the middle class altogether.
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 TS-Si News Service Thursday, 15 November 2007 Unconscious wants undermining conscious pursuits
San Diego, CA, USA. Do you like your name and initials? Most people do. In fact, past research has shown we sometimes like them enough to influence other important behaviors.
For example, Jack is more likely to move to Jacksonville and marry Jackie than is Philip who is more likely to move to Philadelphia and marry Phyllis. Scientists call this phenomenon the “name-letter effect” and argue that it is influential enough to |
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 TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 05 September 2007 Does the concept of god influence cooperative behaviour?
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA. Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) investigated how thinking about God and notions of a higher power influenced positive social behavi |
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 TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 04 September 2007 Beloved friend of the community succumbs to leukemia
Spector was well-known in the Washingt |
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 TS-Si News Service Monday, 20 August 2007 Continues her battle against leukemia
Washington, DC, USA. As reported earlier, Cheryl Ann Spector is seriously ill with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML). She is well-known in the Washington, DC area for her dedication to Gay and Lesbian causes. |
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 TS-Si News Service Monday, 02 July 2007 long-time activist in the Washington, DC community
Washington, DC, USA. Cheryl Ann Spector, well-known in the Washington, DC area for her dedication to Gay and Lesbian causes, is reported to be seriously ill with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) |
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So They Say
The majority of the feminist movement has really been horrible to transsexuals and transgendered people even though the reproductive rights movement offers a very clear parallel.
If women have a right to control their own bodies, even to the extent that they have the right to abort a fœtus then surely people have a right to change their bodies in terms of their secondary sex characteristics.
Pat Califia
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Finding Our Way
Robot Violinist. A robot plays Pomp and Circumstance on the violin. The robot used its mechanical fingers to push the strings and bowed with its other arm.
The 152 cm (five foot) performer can perform a variety of tasks with its hands and arms, each of which has 17 joints.
Using precise control and coordination to achieve human-like agility, the robot could also be used to assist with domestic duties or nursing and medical care.
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