Allison Aubrey on Twitter: "Hmm..More 'Deaths of despair' & drop in #happiness. Is U.S. on wrong track? https://t.co/eqebRnVuFd
There's still life and liberty ... No, wait.
Cuisine and Empire, by Rachel Laudan reviewed by @jonathanpkatz at Flavors of Diaspora
Don't disagree with anything he says, and had not myself fully appreciated that there could have been more on sub-Saharan Africa. No doubt someone is already working on that.
Gorging on the social internet | Jeremy Cherfas
Testing web mention plugin at Grav.
I really love this page, because I wrote it. But I am also out of my depth. Way out.
But I need some data to play with, that's for sure.
The Rory Stewart (or his editors @LRB) should know better.
Rory Stewart reviews ‘Aleppo Observed’ by Maurits H. van den Boogert · LRB 16 February 2017
Behind a paywall, alas, but trust me, this is a cut-and-paste quotation:
> And although van den Boogert is more disparaging of the Russells’ ichthyology – ‘based almost exclusively on what they were served at the consular table, and possibly what they observed in the stalls of the fish market’ – he cannot fail to be impressed by their catalogue of more than seven hundred Syrian plants, two of which, a sage and a milk-vetch, are now named the Phlomis Russeliana and the Astragalus
Russell.
Which just goes to show. You can walk across Afghanistan, be UK Minister of State for International Development, wear your extensive learning as lightly as you please and still screw up scientific names.
[Scientific names are strong proper names](https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/eagles-point-the-way), which take no *the*.
The nonsense of 'knowledge management'
From the abstract:
> Examines critically the origins and basis of 'knowledge management', its components and its development as a field of consultancy practice. Problems in the distinction between 'knowledge' and 'information' are explored, as well as Polanyi's concept of 'tacit knowing'. The concept is examined in the journal literature, the Web sites of consultancy companies, and in the presentation of business schools. The conclusion is reached that 'knowledge management' is an umbrella term for a variety of organizational activities, none of which are concerned with the management of knowledge. Those activities that are not concerned with the management of information are concerned with the management of work practices, in the expectation that changes in such areas as communication practice will enable information sharing.
Going through some very old blog posts, glad to discover this page is still alive.