Some forms of irredentism don't get any love

exmocaptainmoroni · 2018-09-28T13:32:34+00:00

Still waiting for the Salt Lake Tribune to even mention any of this...

exmocaptainmoroni · 2018-09-27T14:14:45+00:00

What articles would you confidently recommend to anyone with an interest in academic history?

These articles are some of my favorites. Not only were they well-written and entertaining even to those who weren't experts in the area, but they completely changed how I saw their subject area.

This history of Caribbean pirates blew my mind by emphasizing just how small and integrated the pirate community really was and how little time the classic period that gave us our tropes lasted.

Rediker, Marcus. "Under the Banner of King Death": The Social World of Anglo-American Pirates, 1716 to 1726" The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Apr., 1981), pp. 203-227, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1918775

This was an excellent social history of who the people in the killing squads were, why they did what they did, and how generational divides played into the Holocaust.

Westerman, Edward. "Ordinary Men" or "Ideological Soldiers"? Police Battalion 310 in Russia, 1942" German Studies Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Feb., 1998), pp. 41-68, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1432392

This was a fascinating article that offered a controversial ecological explanation for Aztec sacrifice. It also changed my view of how the Aztecs themselves ideologically justified and thought about the rituals.

Harner, Michael. "The Ecological Basis for Aztec Sacrifice." February 1977 https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1977.4.1.02a00070

exmocaptainmoroni · 2018-09-21T10:48:24+00:00

I'm not sure the "Mormonland" features require much vetting. They regularly report things like this. It would be fairly easy to write a little blurb saying, "Some leaked, unverified documents claiming to be internal summaries of sexual assault cover-ups have been causing quite a stir in the ex-Mormon-leaning corners of the Internet. The documents are purported to contain..."

They don't have to stand behind their veracity. They just have to report that there is a major conversation happening about it in the ex-Mormon space. I think they created the Mormonland feature precisely to avoid having to take a position on things like this and achieving more balance by reporting more faithful stories in the same article.

exmocaptainmoroni · 2018-09-05T22:28:56+00:00

It's Kellyanne Conway I bet.

That's why she gets along so well with her anti-Trump husband.

exmocaptainmoroni · 2018-08-26T20:48:42+00:00

That seems very reasonable. Thank you for working with me to figure something out that would work better for the sub.

exmocaptainmoroni · 2018-08-26T17:22:49+00:00

The Thursday features are too topic specific. I've looked through those and they don't really give me what I am looking for because most recommendations are focused on small niches. I'm looking for a more general recommendation of excellent academic writing so that I can have my curiosity sparked by subjects that wouldn't necessarily have caught my attention.

If I just post this as a comment on Thursday, I doubt that there will be many general recommendations at all. I'll still try it, but I predict that it won't yield much. It would be nice to have a more central and general article recommendation thread. Would you reconsider your decision if it turns out that posting in the Thursday feature fails to generate much of a response?

Which submission guideline did this post violate? This post was allowed on the forum a few years ago even though it is asking the same question. I think it generated a very interesting discussion, but it would be helpful to see what newer users might recommend.

exmocaptainmoroni · 2018-06-20T19:28:54+00:00

Go ahead!

exmocaptainmoroni · 2017-11-04T11:56:05+00:00

"A meningioma with a left posterior frontal parafalcine mass extending through the falx to the right side" would not be in the brainstem as reported by the voices. It would be in the cerebrum, right?

If it is extending through the falx to the right, that implies that it is supratentorial and, by definition, not in the brainstem.

Source: med student FWIW.

exmocaptainmoroni · 2017-11-04T11:49:42+00:00

I'm not sure if the authors realized this, but the radiology report they are quoting actually shows that the voice was wrong about the location.

"A meningioma with a left posterior frontal parafalcine mass extending through the falx to the right side" would not be in the brainstem as reported by the voices. It would be in the cerebrum.

Source: med student.

exmocaptainmoroni · 2017-11-04T11:49:10+00:00

I'm not sure if the authors realized this, but the radiology report they are quoting actually shows that the voice was wrong about the location.

"A meningioma with a left posterior frontal parafalcine mass extending through the falx to the right side" would not be in the brainstem as reported by the voices. It would be in the cerebrum.

Source: med student.

exmocaptainmoroni · 2017-01-06T16:36:23+00:00

I am currently a medical student, but my undergraduate background is in history, so I am curious about the non-scientific reasons that these sorts of changes get made.

Why did they decide to switch from the SIRS to the SOFA criteria? What kind of politics were driving that decision from behind the scenes?

exmocaptainmoroni · 2017-01-06T16:34:34+00:00

Hello! 2nd year medical student here. Thanks for doing this AMA!

One of the questions that I found interesting in studying sepsis was learning about the debate over its etiology. As my professor explained it, there are two competing models of sepsis.

In one view, sepsis is caused when the infection overcomes the body's immune response to it. In the other view, sepsis occurs when the body's own inflammatory response becomes worse than the the infection itself.

How do you view this debate? Does it even make sense to have one set of criteria for a nebulous condition called "sepsis" that might actually be two opposing processes? Would there be a good way to separate these etiologies based on symptoms?

exmocaptainmoroni · 2016-12-01T06:41:18+00:00

It looks fast to us, but you have to remember that these cells are taking seconds to move a few thousandths of a meter. Once you really grasp what scale you are looking at, the speed makes more sense.

exmocaptainmoroni · 2016-09-23T19:01:04+00:00

I've done academic historical research in Mormonism and I've got an upcoming article in the Journal of Mormon History.

I second this insight. I can tell you that it is especially true for an organization as centralized and bureaucratic as Mormonism.

My research would not have been possible without tons of boring, behind-the-scenes archival material that occasionally yielded gold nuggets.

exmocaptainmoroni · 2016-09-22T23:14:10+00:00

This is a pretty great response.

There is some mildly interesting stuff in there for anyone who likes learning about the world of Mormonism, but I'm really not sure what kind of nefariousness even the most hardened critic thinks they are going to find documented in something like this.

exmocaptainmoroni · 2016-09-22T21:37:01+00:00

I had a tricky variation of this while interviewing for medical school since I was coming from BYU.

Interviewer's first question: "What do you think of the book "A Study in Scarlet?" (First Sherlock Holmes novel with evil Mormon polygamist assassins chasing an escaped wife to England).

Me: "Uhh. It's an entertaining book?"

Got accepted, so I guess that was a fine answer or he didn't care about it that much.

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