Blogs Noted: Gene Logdson, Full Cry, Cute Overload, Global Swarming Honey Bees, Delia Lloyd, Mexico Cooks!

Gene Logsdon, "Archeology Not Agriculture Teaches Good Agriculture"
By the author of the greatest read of 2011, Holy Sh*t. I am not kidding.

Full Cry: The Hounds of Beagle House
Delightfully writerly descriptions of a bunch of, yeah, hounds. Not for those who want to save the foxes.

Cute Overload Ceiling Cat
A brief, wierd video. Good if your Prozac dose is a little low today. (Why take Prozac at all when you can check in with Cute Overload?)

Global Swarming Honeybees on Urban Beekeeping in Hong Kong
Links to a beautiful and strange video.

Delia "Real Delia" Lloyd on one uber funky vacation

Mexico Cooks! Reviews my favorite Mexican restaurant in Mexico City, El Bajío.

I just bought this b-b-b-bodacious sound clip for the new Dancing Chiva video-- which will be on-line next week.

Thanks, amiga M., for sending this link to the TED video about e-Patient Dave.

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Blogs Noted

Real Delia (Delia Lloyd)
David Holzel
Rachel Laudan: A Historian's Take on Food and Politics
Chasing Ray (Colleen Mondor)
Bernie's E-Zine
Great New Books That Are a Must Read
Mexico Bob
The Things She Thinks About (Deborah Batterman)

Blogs Noted: Economex, Real Delia, Mad Aggregator, Mashable, Cheese Underground

Economex by economist and Mexico expert Dr Deborah Riner;

Real Delia by writer Delia Lloyd;

Mad Aggregator by poet T.R. Hummer;

Mashable: Guide to Effective Fan Book Pages;

Cheese Underground by Jeanne Carpenter.

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Delia Lloyd on Academic Blogs

But will she start a blog? My Mexico City amiga (now living in London), political scientist and writer Delia Lloyd has a guest-blog post on academic blogs over at Urban Muse:

For a long time, academics sat on the sidelines of the public sphere. Sure, there were famous professors like John Kenneth Galbraith--or more recently, Paul Krugman--who had tremendous influence inside the scholarly community and also shaped the public debate. For the most part, however, academics just seemed to do "something else" and we, as a society, had little knowledge of--or interest in--exactly what that was.

In recent years, however, a growing number of Ph.D.s--both inside and outside of the university--have begun sharing their expertise with a wider audience on a range of subjects that spans economics, law, political science, even literature. And the way they've done this is through blogs.

Among the most famous of these "academic blogs" is probably Freakonomics, the New York Times blog (based on the best selling book by Steven. D. Levitt and Steven J. Dubner) that sheds economic insight onto everyday occurrences....READ MORE