There are minefields on the path to maturity for every young person in this city. But for many young male Philadelphians, the danger runs deeper.

Young men in Philadelphia public schools are more likely than most to live with one parent, have a parent in jail, reside in drug-addled neighborhoods or experience violence. Students in too many Philadelphia public schools can’t be guaranteed basic safety, let alone a decent education.

Enter the Boys’ Latin of Philadelphia Charter School, a new college prep school at 55th and Cedar in Southwest Philadelphia with an ambitious plan to avert the tragedy that defines the city’s public school system. Boys’ Latin’s first batch of students—144 ninth-graders—occupy a 10-room temporary structure as they wait for contractors to finish renovations on the building next door.

Last year there were 11 murders within five blocks of where Boys’ Latin sits. “I worry about the students,” says teacher Paula Sahm, who lives in the Art Museum area of Philadelphia. “I’ll sit and watch the news, and if I even hear Southwest Philly, I get chills.”"

Read about it in the Philadelphia Weekly.

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• Books by Robert Darnton

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Women's Experiences of Hindu Traditions: A State of the Field Review
Static models of Hindu women as marginalized and muted subjects have in recent years been enlivened by a body of work that investigates the ways in which women both subtly and overtly resist, contest, and re-imagine these roles.

Psychological Similarities Between Men and Women Across Cultures
In this paper, I review a body of cross-cultural evidence showing that it is precisely in these Western countries that women and men differ the most in terms of personality, self-construal, values, or emotions. Much less-pronounced gender differences are observed, if at all, in Asian and African countries.

Contemporary British-Jewish Writing: From Apology to Attitude
This article surveys contemporary British-Jewish writing. It looks at a variety of texts to argue that British-Jewish writing is gaining a new visibility, momentum and confidence.

Teaching and Learning Guide for: Racial Residential Segregation in Urban America
We present an overview of research about racial residential segregation. The first part of the article reviews major debates and findings drawn primarily from the sociological literature. The second part of the article identifies new areas of research that in some cases cross into other disciplines such as geography and urban studies.

Personality in Non-Human Animals
The wave of new studies is shedding fresh light on traditional issues in personality research (How do early experiences affect adult personality?), raising novel questions (What are the evolutionary origins of personality traits?) and addressing practical problems (Which dogs are best suited to detecting explosives?).

Causal Theories of Mental Content
Causal theories of mental content (CTs) ground certain aspects of a concept's meaning in the causal relations a concept bears to what it represents.

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All In The Mind

Big Ideas

The Connection

In Our Time

Listening to Words

Open Source

The Philosopher's Zone

Philosopher Bites

Philosophy: The Classics

Point of Inquiry

TED

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Also look here: Beware of Greeks Bearing Placards.

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Divining "divine action" in theology-and-science: A review essay
ZYGON 43 (1): 191-200 MAR 2008
The topic of divine action has been central to the theology-and-science discussion over the last twenty years...I review three recent books that have responded in some way to the ongoing discussion.

The Filipino Catholic nun as transnational feminist
WOMENS HISTORY REVIEW 17 (1): 57-78 FEB 2008
Filipino Catholic nuns became formidable activists in the women's movement as women's studies teachers, and as leaders and members of transnational organizations. This article argues that the nuns' unique location in the interstices-as transnational feminists who moved constantly from the local to the international-was what made them effective activists.

The healing serpent and the origin of Ophite Gnosticism
REVUE DE L HISTOIRE DES RELIGIONS 224 (4): 395-434 OCT-DEC 2007
This group is, together with the Naassenes, the only one that actually adores the serpent, which is considered as the epiphany of the Logos. This equivalence Logos = serpent is taken from the exegetical interpretation of Num. 21, 8-10 (the bronze serpent).

Racializing historiography: anti-Jewish scholarship in the Third Reich
PATTERNS OF PREJUDICE 42 (1): 27-59 FEB 2008
He raises and attempts to answer crucial and far-reaching questions about Judenforschung and its role in the Third Reich. Why was historical scholarship important for the perpetrators of the Holocaust? What was the specific function of historical arguments in a racist setting? What was the specific contribution of the humanities to racist arguments and racist politics?

Religious place and its interaction with urbanization in the Roman era
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY 8 (1): 37-62 FEB 2008
This article examines the issue of urbanization in Roman Britain and its interaction with places of the late pre-Roman Iron Age...The modern western conception of place differs vastly from the past when places were important ways of conceptualizing experiencing and understanding the world and they were constructed through human action, memory and experience and interaction.

Aegean prehistory as world archaeology: Recent trends in the archaeology of Bronze age Greece
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH 16 (2): 83-161 JUN 2008
This article surveys archaeological work of the last decade on the Greek Bronze Age, part of the broader discipline known as Aegean prehistory. Naturally, the literature is vast, so I focus on a set of topics that may be of general interest to non-Aegeanists: chronology, regional studies, the emergence and organization of archaic states, ritual and religion, and archaeological science.

Is there a moral justification for redressing historical injustices?
VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 61 (1): 127-+ JAN 2008
This Article examines whether there is a moral justification for repairing historical injustices. My theme is the difficulty of devising a compelling moral argument for redressing such injustices, notwithstanding the moral arguments often invoked by the proponents of redress.

Writing as thinking
REVIEW OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY 12 (1): 9-27 MAR 2008
We explore four methods to see how expert writers externalize thoughts and interact with them: laboratory comparisons of novices and experts, interviews with accomplished writers (mostly of prose fiction), biographical analysis of Jane Austen's development as a writer, and consideration of Gustave Flaubert's notes and drafts.

Animal consciousness
JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES 15 (3): 5-33 MAR 2008
There are several types of behavioural evidence in favour of the notion that many animal species experience at least some simple levels of consciousness. Other than behavioural evidence, there are a number of anatomical and physiological criteria that help resolve the problem of animal consciousness, particularly when addressing the problem in lower vertebrates and invertebrates.

Constructing the guru: Ritual authority and architectural space in medieval India
ART BULLETIN 90 (1): 7 MAR 2008
At the central Indian site of Chandrehe stands a rare example of a monumental stone monastery, built in 973 by a sect of Shiva-worshiping ascetics known as the Mattamayuras. Its complex architectural program Suggests that it was carefully designed to evoke the soteriological and ritual world of medieval Hindu monasteries, about which very little other evidence exists.

The work of the present: Constructing messianic temporality in the wake of failed prophecy among Chabad Hasidim
AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST 35 (1): 64-80 FEB 2008
Temporal issues have remained relatively unelaborated in the rich body of research that applies cognitive dissonance theory to millenarian movements following a failed prophecy. We engage these issues by exploring how the meshichistim (messianists) among the Jewish ultraorthodox Chabad (Lubavitch) Hasidim employ temporal categories to deal with the crisis entailed in the death of their leader, the expected Messiah.

Two philosophy professors at Stanford, Ken Taylor and John Perry, have been hosting a radio show on philosophy since 2004 called Philosophy Talk. They claim to "[question] everything...except your intelligence". They address traditional philosophical topics like truth, beauty, Hegel, and skepticism, as well as broader topics like dreaming, separation of powers, and war crimes. Their aim is to offer philosophy that the educated layperson can understand and enjoy.

The Philosophy Talk Web site includes a listing of the radio stations that air the program, links to previous shows that you can listen to online for free, as well as a blog and information on upcoming shows. To download the shows in MP3 format you've got to pay (no one ever said philosophy came cheap) however.

So give it a shot, philosophize!

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Here are the Top Downloads for Classics (though the definition of Classics is very broad) on the Classics Research Network.

The Social Sciences Research Network is increasingly moving into supporting the humanities and will be opening up many new areas in the near future.

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Archimedes Codex is the book that tells the whole story. Check it out from Paley Library.

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Here are some links to the PDF's of the guides:
Classical Studies // Middle Eastern Studies // Religious Studies // Women's Studies

Take a look to see how ARTstor can illuminate your research and scholarship!

Walking with Odysseus: The portico frame of the Odyssey Landscapes
"The painted portico thus puts the viewers in the proper frame of mind to appreciate the intellectual associations of the painting as they walk with Odysseus on a parallel journey of philosophical reflection."

Juno, Hercules, and the Muses at Rome (This study has to do with the divine patrons of music as a public activity at Rome)
"The Aedes Herculis Musarum (AHM), embodying musical harmony, was a symbolic focal point for political concordia at Rome. The treatment of its cult honorands in high poetry also embraces Juno Regina, whose contemporary temple was adjacent to the AHM."

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