Charlie Parker and “Honeysuckle Rose”

The Clumsy Charlie Series

These four readers for the illiterate represent an apparent contradiction in terms. They are in fact not 'readers', but a teaching-aid for the recognition of a social sight vocabulary. The books can be used in a variety of ways by the perceptive teacher to help the young adult illiterate to gain a 'shorthand communi-cation', to assist him in adjusting to the community. The key words of the voca...

Are You Charlie or Ahmed? Cultural Pluralism in Charlie Hebdo Response on Twitter

We study the response to the Charlie Hebdo shootings of January 7, 2015 on Twitter across the globe. We ask whether the stances on the issue of freedom of speech can be modeled using established sociological theories, including Huntington’s culturalist Clash of Civilizations, and those taking into consideration social context, including Density and Interdependence theories. We find support for ...

THE PERSIANS. LOST CIVILIZATIONS Geoffrey Parker and Brenda Parker, Reaktion Book, 2017, 208 pages

Lilac and honeysuckle phenology data 1956–2014

The dataset is comprised of leafing and flowering data collected across the continental United States from 1956 to 2014 for purple common lilac (Syringa vulgaris), a cloned lilac cultivar (S. x chinensis 'Red Rothomagensis') and two cloned honeysuckle cultivars (Lonicera tatarica 'Arnold Red' and L. korolkowii 'Zabeli'). Applications of this observational dataset range from detecting regional w...

Travels with Charlie: Part II

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