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• Davi Kopenawa, author of The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, recently spoke with Mashable about how his tribe’s new solar-powered Wi-Fi network will help them battle threats to their land and traditions.
• Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century has won the 2014 British Academy Medal.
• At the Chronicle of Higher Education, educator James Lang discussed his experience taking part in a multi-day “Reacting to the Past” exercise—the teaching methodology developed by Mark Carnes and explained fully in Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College.

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July 22: "No Book Is Ever Finished"

In a recent post at the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s “Scholarly Kitchen” blog, the always-astute Joseph Esposito considers the unwieldiness of “post-publication peer review” as both locution and concept. The term signals an inversion in the traditional model of scholarly publishing, which typically relies on the evaluation of materials prior to release as a critical node in the determination of a work’s suitability for publication. The post-publication peer review scheme, as Esposito explains, is developing as a means for gauging the value of a text after its publication because new models for the online publication of scholarly work may not necessarily involve rigorous pre…