The Tahri That Binds: How A Sweet Rice Dish Connects A Woman To Her History National Public Radio – March 28 I have always found it difficult to explain my family’s syncretic faith traditions to both white Americans and to other South Asians. We are Hindu Sindhis, originating from an area around the Indus River, in what is now modern southeast Pakistan. On our home altar, familiar Hindu idols — Lakshmi, Ganesh, Krishna — share space with images of the […]
Category: A&S in the News
Faculty, students, and staff in the local and national media.
A&S in the News: March 11–24
Are you a liberal or a conservative? That may depend on where you live. Washington Post – March 16 What does a strong liberal in Clay County, Fla., have in common with a strong conservative in Denver County, Colo.? Not much, you might guess, considering how politically polarized our nation is. But in fact, these two sometimes hold similar positions on political issues. For example, the average “strong liberal” in Clay County is likely to be slightly against using enhanced […]
A&S in the News: Feb. 18-24, 2017
For decades they hid Jefferson’s mistress. Now Monticello is making room for Sally Hemings Philly.com – Feb. 20 When Jefferson’s critics wrote salacious stories in the early 1800s alleging that the widowed politician had a long-term liaison with one of these slaves, it was said that he kept her “in a room of her own” at Monticello. To pinpoint that room, historians relied on a description provided long ago by a Jefferson grandson, who placed it in the home’s south […]
A&S in the News: February 11–17, 2017
CJ Chair Goes Viral Recently, the Criminal Justice department’s Dr. Lesley Reid has seen her report, “”Urban Crime Rates and the Changing Face of Immigration: Evidence Across Four Decades,” go viral across many news outlets. Dr. Reid was one of several collaborators on the report, which concluded that immigrants tend to commit less crime than their native counterparts. A list of this week’s outlets that referenced the report follows: Newsweek – Feb. 11 Psychology Today – Feb. 11 Democratic Underground – […]
A&S in the News: Feb. 4–10
Bumble bees are changing, and this UA professor asks why Al.com – Feb. 8 When reporting on Dr. Jeffrey Lozier, the University of Alabama’s bumble bee expert, it’s best to get the No. 1 myth out of the way up front. No, it’s not a miracle that bumble bees can fly, Lozier said last week. Yes, some people think it is because they look like black and yellow tanks with tiny wings. “They’re not fixed-wing aircraft,” Lozier observed. “They’re quite […]
A&S in the News: Jan. 28–Feb. 3, 2017
Déjà Vu? Ocean Warmth Melted Ancient West Antarctic Ice Shelf EOS News – Jan. 31 Scientists sailing on a research cruise in the Amundsen Sea, off the coast of western Antarctica, have found evidence of massive, ancient loss of an ice shelf in the region, resulting from contact with warmer seawater. Seafloor sediment cores the team collected in front of the current Cosgrove Ice Shelf indicate that relatively warm ocean water under-melted a vast ice shelf about 2000 years ago, […]
A&S in the News: Jan. 21–27, 2017
Sonic Frontiers concert set for Friday in Moody Recital Hall Tuscaloosa News – Jan. 24 An electronic music pioneer will be featured Friday as part of the University of Alabama’s Sonic Frontiers concert series. Tim Perkis, who has worked in the medium of live electronic and computer sound since the 1970s, will perform beginning at 7:30 p.m. at UA’s School of Music Moody Recital Hall, 810 Second Ave. How partisanship came to rule American politics Al.com – Jan. 22 During […]
A&S in the News — Jan. 14–20, 2017
Think your dog talks like people? Scientists say you might just be right Washington Post – Jan. 19 “Oh Long Johnson,” a cat once said, back in the primordial history of Internet memes. “Oh Don Piano. Why I eyes ya.” Or so said the captions — appended to the gibberish of a perturbed house cat on “America’s Funniest Home Videos” in 1999 and rediscovered in the YouTube era, when millions of people heard something vaguely human echo in a distant […]
A&S in the News – Jan. 7–13
Baboons yak ‘wahoo,’ make vowel-like sounds like humans, suggesting speech may date back 25 million years Japan Times – Jan. 11 Baboons make sounds that are similar to the vowels a,e,i,o and u, researchers said Wednesday, suggesting that some monkeys have had the physical capacity for language for millions of years. The findings in the journal PLOS ONE add a new dimension to the long-running debate over how language began and evolved, by showing that baboons possess a tongue and […]
A&S in the News — Jan. 1–6
China’s Largest Freshwater Lake Is Shrinking Huffington Post – Jan. 3 China’s largest freshwater lake is under serious threat, and it seems no one can agree on how to save it. Poyang Lake can swell to over 1,700 square miles, an area larger than Rhode Island. But photographs released by China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency in November show it completely dry in parts, desiccated by drought … “I think [they’re] proposing a solution without understanding the causes of the problem,” […]