Back-in-America Links

• The Vatican is running a debt.
• Popehat defends the humanities.
• Juan Cole on how the media treats white perpetrators of mass violence differently than "Arab Terrorists."
• The Mellon Foundation backs area studies at UW-Madison.  My department is afloat for at least another few years.
• Now this is the story all about how/my life got flipped, turned upside down/And I'd like to take minute and sit right there/I'll tell you why I am in Guantanamo watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-air.
• Are human poachers causing a selective pressure that favors intelligence in the gorilla population?
• Finally, my friend looks at the similarity between food and the human body.