Mike Balter's mallets
As readers of this blog know, your host is a big jazz fan. But I have not played an instrument since I was 8 years old, when 3rd grade flute lessons …
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Lots of links and important info from Glenn Greenwald
I am using Blogger's great email posting feature to forward an entire column by Glenn Greenwald from a couple of days ago. Glenn is required read…
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The audacity of lost hope
That's the only way to characterize the position taken by Clinton's advocates, most notably Harold Ickes, at the DNC rules committee today. T…
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Breaking the Silence--Israeli soldiers speak
The May 31 issue of the French daily newspaper Le Monde (still one of the world's great newspapers despite years of internal upheavals and cutbac…
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The frozen north and the first Eskimos
In this week's online edition of Science , a team of researchers from Greenland, Denmark, and other European laboratories report on the first (ne…
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McCain to Obama: Visit Iraq!
Okay, in the news today is McCain's challenge to Obama to visit Iraq because he is "ignorant of the facts on the ground" in the war zon…
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Clinton's crushingly incredible dishonesty over Florida and Michigan
Better bloggers than Balter long ago pointed out the desperate hypocrisy of Clinton's insistence that the Florida and Michigan delegations be sea…
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Flying Saucers from the British Isles
Today's International Herald Tribune features a story by reporter Sarah Lyall about the British government's release of UFO sighting reports…
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Sunday jazz interlude
Check out Ravi Coltrane's MySpace page , where among other cuts you can listen to "Dear Alice," Ravi's haunting tribute to his late…
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The assassin's bullet
I think it's a good sign if Hillary Clinton subliminally realizes that the only way she is going to get the nomination is if Barack Obama is assa…
Read more![The truth at last, or at least some of it, about Peter Rathjen, the U of Adelaide, the U of Melbourne, the U of Tasmania, etc. [Updated Sept 3, 2020: University of Melbourne "leader" finally speaks]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTTYlLfJJPciFfe5iknlB2hbK8jYC5SDgoJTGaFKZBvgKVDAjUHzXjHFifYPzrixQgmQPW0Udsk6Y3OMLjmJd4rCxY352IA9Nwt2DlSscScArhuGqGpsiLozqx1A2xzK2I0_u_HOjwQlfn/w680/Rathjen.jpg)
My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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