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For the newest edition of UNM’s Geek Talk, Benson Hendrix and Sari Krosinsky, two of the Geek Talk team put together a list of last-minute gift ideas for the geek in your life. Among the gifts discussed are:

• Sony’s Imagination Studio Suite
• the game “House of Whack” (www.houseofwhack.net)
• Zoom H2 Handy Recorder
• the DVDs for Serenity, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica

and more!

(due to some technical difficulties, this edition of Geek Talk is being hosted on Sony’s AcidPlanet.com)

You can listen to the newest edition of Geek Talk here.

UNM Law Professor and Director of Africana Studies Sherri Burr and Hakim Bellamy, program specialist in the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs and UNM graduate student, talk about the 2008 presidential election and what Barack Obama’s victory means in an interview with Carolyn Gonzales, University Communication and Marketing.

 

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Carolyn Gonzales, University Communication and Marketing, talks with UNM Professor Enrique Lamadrid about Christmas traditions throughout New Mexico.

 

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“I have another book for you, friends: Carl Sifakis’s American Eccentrics. It is in fact the ideal bathroom book, with entries that can be enjoyed at a short sitting as it were. Sifakis simply gives one- or two-page accounts of some of our stranger countrymen and –women and starts the whole thing off with a very thoughtful introduction.” A video blog by Jerry Shea, UNM professor emeritus.

From the original blog at MacInstruct.com, July 21, 2007.

 

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Russell Goodman, UNM professor of philosophy, was a guest on Philosophy Talk, discussing the topic of William James. William James is a great figure, historically important as a philosopher (pragmatism and radical empiricism), a student of religion (author of the monumental Varieties of Religious Experience), and psychology.

Listen to the interview at Philosophy Talk.

Ruth Trinidad Galván is an assistant professor for the Department of Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education. She just returned from Ecuador where she was studying on a Fulbright Scholarship. As part of her Faculty Acknowledgement Award, she gave a talk on her research titled “Insights in the Migration Stream of Ecuadoran Women and the Husbands Who Stay Behind.”

 

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“What? Youve never heard of Sabine Baring-Gould? Dear me. A Google search will turn up a dozen pages of citations (no, really). There is a Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society (small but determined). He wrote more histories, novels, tracts, sermons, essays, and whatnot—especially whatnot—than a half-dozen lesser men could have hoped to.” A video blog by Jerry Shea, UNM professor emeritus.

From the original blog at MacInstruct.com, May 19, 2007.

 

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Michelle Holtby, author of “Bipolar No More,” talks about being diagnosed and learning to live with bipolar disorder during a book talk at the UNM Bookstore.

 

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“There are people who, for whatever reasons, move every couple of years, and often over great distances. There are others who are born, live and die in the same house in the same town. Some are proverbial rolling stones, while some are as rooted as oak trees. But most of us fall somewhere in between. I know I do.” A video blog by Jerry Shea, UNM professor emeritus.

From the original blog at MacInstruct.com, March 22, 2008.

 

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