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Black and White American Voters Live in One Country, But Two Different Worlds

By Guest PostOctober 31, 2011Culture, Politicsafrican american problems, african americans, aftermath of hurricane katrina, Barack Obama, black political effectiveness, change, euphoria, first black president, katrina disaster, michael dawson, new orleans hurricane in 2005, political outlook of blacks in america, racial harmony, the nadir of black politics, uchicago political scientist, united states, university of chicago, warfare in iraq and afghanistan, william harms

The political outlook of blacks in America has undergone dramatic swings in the last ten years — from the depths of powerlessness during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to the zenith with the election of the first black president, Barack Obama.

Now, with another presidential election looming, blacks are again confronting new issues as they judge and sometimes question the impact of Obama’s election, contends UChicago political scientist Michael Dawson, whose work finds sharp contrasts between how African Americans and whites feel about their country. (more…)

Fighting Violent Gang Crime with Math

By Guest PostOctober 28, 2011Culture, Scienceactivity on social networks, alexey stomakhin, algorithm, andrea bertozzi, anthropology, applied mathematics, crime patterns, crime patterns of the hollenbeck gang network, criminal activity between gangs, east los angeles police district, gang crimes, hollenbeck, jeffrey brantingham, lapd, los angeles police department, martin short, mathematical algorithm, missing information, police, set of simulated data, sophisticated methods, street gangs, the best job in the world, ucla mathematicians, victim or perpetrator, violent crimes

UCLA mathematicians working with the Los Angeles Police Department to analyze crime patterns have designed a mathematical algorithm to identify street gangs involved in unsolved violent crimes. Their research is based on patterns of known criminal activity between gangs, and represents the first scholarly study of gang violence of its kind.

The research appears today on the website of the peer-reviewed mathematical journal Inverse Problems and will be published in a future print edition. (more…)

Joint Palestinian-American Dig Near Jericho Yields Clues About Early Islamic Culture

By Guest PostOctober 26, 2011Cultureamericans and palestinians, archaeologists, artifacts, bananas and lush vegetation, Bible, byzantine empire, caliph, christian and islamic communities, citrus fruits, city, culture, donald whitcomb, early islamic site, forbidden in islam, gil stein, hamdan taha, hisham palace, iconic site, ipads, islam, islamic civilization, jericho, joint palestinian american project, joshua, khirbet al mafjar, mafjar project, michael jennings, middle east, nephew, north of jericho, palestinian, palestinian director of antiquities, qasr hisham, rome, rule of caliph hisham, spatial relationship, sub tropical environment of palms, Technology, the tree of life, walid

As the Byzantine Empire was in decline, Islam began to dominate the Middle East, with a remarkable culture that showed a command of technology and an appreciation of art and decoration, research by archaeologists shows.

In order to study Islamic civilization in its earliest days, Donald Whitcomb, who directs the Islamic Archaeology project at the Oriental Institute, is undertaking a project with Palestinian colleagues to further excavate an early Islamic site north of Jericho that contains a palace, a bathhouse and what was probably a settlement to the north. (more…)

MSU Helps Transform Michigan into A Wine Destination

By Guest PostOctober 24, 2011Culture, Economygrape producer, michigan, viticulture program, wine connoisseur, wine destination, wine grape growers, wine industry

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan has established itself as a wine destination, and Michigan State University has played a pivotal role in all aspects of the industry’s growth. (more…)

How Do Muslim Americans Use Popular Culture?

By Guest PostOctober 21, 2011Cultureamerican, cultural techniques, grand valley state university, hijabi monologues, islam inflected culture, islamophobia, metrospace, michigan state university, migrations of islam, music to visual art, muslim, muslim americans, muslim culture, muslim subjects, muslims and islam, salah hassan, the taqwacores

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Facing “Islamophobia” and widespread hostility, Muslim Americans have adopted cultural techniques to make their voices heard, according to Michigan State University faculty who will use a grant to conduct a yearlong study of Islam-inflected culture.

MSU’s Muslim Studies Program and Asian Studies Center were recently awarded $100,000 from the Social Science Research Council for “Migrations of Islam.” (more…)

Native Americans Stuck in a Political Irony

By Guest PostOctober 18, 2011Culture, Politicsamerican indians, blood quantum, native american land, native americans, tribal character, tribal jurisdiction, tribal membership

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Domestic violence against Native American women and pollution of American Indian land – mostly at the hands of non-Native Americans – are just two of many issues that could destroy the American Indian way of life, according to a Michigan State University law professor. (more…)

Who’s More Likely to offer a Bribe?

By Guest PostOctober 8, 2011Culturebribery, business person, collective feeling, collectivist cultures, corruption, kurt kleiner, laboratory, nina mazar, pankaj aggarwal, researchers, society, university of toronto scarborough, utsc

*U of T professors show collectivism and bribery linked*

Why are some places more prone to bribery and corruption than others?

Part of the answer seems to be the level of collective feeling in a society, according to research by Pankaj Aggarwal, University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) professor of marketing in the Department of Management, and Nina Mazar, University of Toronto professor of marketing. (more…)

When It Comes To Charitable Giving, People Respond To Their Immediate Emotions, Cu Study Says

By Guest PostOctober 7, 2011Culture, Economycharitable decisions, charitable donations, charitable organization

When considering giving money to humanitarian crises people often donate in response to events that grab their immediate emotions, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Dresden University of Technology in Germany. (more…)

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