( Almost all illustrations in this post, including the black-and-white nude, are computer generated and do not portray real people. Some virtual images are reproduced from work published by Dartmouth College Professor Hany Farid … see below for more about him.) More of the latest sex-pol research and news: from studies of young people and [...]
Read MoreI still get asked about David, whom I wrote about in New York Magazine a couple of years ago. He’s the undocumented Mexican who was living in a basement with over two dozen other immigrants. People wonder how he’s doing. David and one of his former roommates, Jose, keep in touch because they live near [...]
Read MoreWriter David France was on (click here) Boston public radio WBUR yesterday, talking about his story, in last month’s New York Magazine, about the fall of former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald. France’s interview is the first normal radio piece about the subject — “normal” referring to the quaint practice of a host asking [...]
Read MoreI dropped by the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, held at NYC’s Museum of Natural History over the weekend. The fest began decades ago, to showcase moving-image offerings by anthropologists — materials that have been coming out since stuff like Man of Aran first appeared in the 1930s. Back then, the medium was 35 [...]
Read MoreTo get to Carrollton, the suburb just north of Dallas where my sister lives, you have to drive through mean little Farmers Branch. Which is yet another burb, lately in the news because the town has been trying to keep landlords from renting apartments to “illegal aliens.” I passed through Irving, Texas too – where [...]
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