From the International Journal of Intangible Heritage, Guha Shankar (LOC): From Subject to Producer: Reframing the Indigenous Heritage through Cultural Documentation Training; Saskia Vermeylen and Jeremy Pilcher (Lancaster): Let the Objects Speak: Online Museums and Indigenous Cultural Heritage; and Catherine Grant (QCRC): The Links between Safeguarding Languages and Safeguarding Musical Heritage. From Good, a look at the very long history of emoticons. Friendship in an age of economics: To preserve our most cherished human bonds, we must push back against the idea of investment and return. The ancient sport of sumo wrestling is grappling with an enormous scandal involving gambling wrestlers, Yakuza syndicates, and a crooked hairdresser. The $64 Trillion Question: How can we get the American economy to prosper again? This is the story of how some of the richest people in the world — Goldman, Deutsche Bank, the traders at Merrill Lynch, and more — have caused the starvation of some of the poorest people in the world, just so they could make a fatter profit. A review of The Disordered Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Mental Illness by George Graham. With prospects for additional government stimulus extremely unlikely, economists now are asking whether fiscal contraction might be expansionary. For those of us pragmatically situated between adolescent exuberance and crotchety-old-man condemnation, it is time to acknowledge that something big is happening with Twitter. From Dubstep to Free Improv to Noise, people turn to music to express something about the world that words alone can't; how well, then, do Steve Goodman’s Sonic Warfare and the group work Noise & Capitalism serve their listener-readers?
