Black-bellied Whistling Duck. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons
Howdy. Here are your Monday links…
- A useful graphic on which countries are taking Syrian refugees.
- The best tribute to Pete Seeger I saw came from Outlook India, which has audio of Seeger singing Gandhi’s “Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram” and Indians singing “Hum Honge Kamyaab” (“We Shall Overcome”).
- The NY Times’ India Ink explains “Why the US Embassy Releases Pollution Data in Beijing but not in New Delhi.”
- Al Jazeera has a retrospective on the Iranian Revolution, which will turn 35 on 11 February. Arguably, it was the most important revolution since 1789.
- Chad Raymond at Active Learning in Political Science tries out the Marshmallow Challenge on Poli-Sci students. (My question: who get the marshmallow’s at the end?)
- Finally, Lakemaid Beer tinkers with drone delivery.
Vikash is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. His main areas of academic interest are (post-) globalization, economic development, and economic freedom, with a regional focus on South Asia
Thanks for the link to my marshmallow experiment. As far as I could tell, no one ate the marshmallows because the vast majority fell on the floor when the towers collapsed. I’ve put Duck of Minerva on the Active Learning in Political Science blogroll. Very interesting stuff here.
The Russian Revolution?
I don’t give as much importance to the Russian Revolution as others, mainly because I see that revolution as the working out of certain progressive and secular ideals that also marked the French Revolution. The Iranian Revolution stands apart from that trend once Khomeini came to the forefront. But that’s just me…
Given the Russian and the Chinese revolutions, I respectfully disagree w the OP’s statement on the Iranian revolution, though it was important of course.
I was hoping the poli sci folks would share their thoughts on this:
https://www.salon.com/2014/02/04/in_praise_of_arthur_chu_the_game_theory_nerd_who_broke_jeopardy/