Electric Lib

My Brain is Bursting With Knowledge

Here's an interesing thing I just learned, although I'll quickly tell you why I thought to look it up first, as it is a little obscure. I got an email about an anthropologist named Tudor Parfitt who is coming to UVM soon to speak about his study of the Lemba tribe in South Africa that claim to be one of the lost tribes of Isreal, aka Jewish. If they were, they would be the only existing tribe out of the Ten Tribes from the northen Kingdom of Isreal. Anyways, I don't know much about this topic, but I thought it was interesting. They recently found evidence in the Y chromosome which makes it very likely that they are indeed who they claim. I guess that changes the stereotype of the Jewish appearance, huh? Anyways, it's easy to find online if you type in "Lemba, South Africa."

In other news, I am now an unofficial expert on the uneven development between the U.S. industry and Japanese industry. I am just flooded with assignments at the moment, as it is almost finals time, and it's very exciting in a stressful kind of way. Also, just to talk about myself a little more, I was very intrigued after my social inequality class yesterday and a film we saw featuring Bell Hooks, and my enthusiasm for feminism, although it never faded, was reawakened! All these papers have gotten by brain going!

Finally, I would like to mention that it is world AIDS day, as you may have seen on google. If you're interested in AIDS, there's a movie called "A Closer Walk" narrated by Glenn Close and Will Smith that I saw a clip of the other day and it's very powerful, I plan on seeing the rest at some point.

P.S.- if you don't believe in global warming, take a trip to Vermont... It ought to convince you. I should not be 60 degrees on the last day of November. Posted by lib at December 1, 2006 04:20 PM