All The Links
* CFP reminder: “SF/F Now” and “Irradiating the Object” at the University of Warwick, August 2014. Proposals due March 31.
* Legendary science fiction editor Gardner Dozois once said that the job of a science fiction writer was to notice the car and the movie theater and anticipate the drive-in – and then go on to predict the sexual revolution. I love that quote, because it highlights the key role of SF in examining the social consequences of technology – and because it shows how limited our social imaginations are.
* Median Salaries of Senior College Administrators, 2013-14.
* Where and When You Can See The Grand Budapest Hotel.
* The New Yorker covers fusion power.
* We need to update our nightmares: Zeynep Tufekci on the Internet.
* Unreal: Dartmouth Student Says She Was Sexually Assaulted After Website ‘Rape Guide’ Named Her. Campus Rape and the Rise of the Academic Industrial Complex.
* 800-year-old castle torn down in Ireland.
* $60 million high school football stadium, built in 2012, torn down.
* Curators at the new art museum at Kennesaw State University had some last-minute work to do before its grand opening Saturday night. They had to quickly pack up an installation — one the art museum had commissioned — after university administrators ordered it killed for being insufficiently “celebratory” for the event.
* The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics. Man.
* …one of the gravest threats the FBI saw in the Black Panther movement was their Free Children’s Breakfast Program.
* Agamben, horror, and the 90s.
* Universities being used as proxy border police, say UK academics.
* But at least one university says it has already begun denying admission to “risky” applicants — those who don’t meet the institution’s typical minimum standards for SAT scores and GPA — over fears of how it would be rated under the Obama ratings proposal.
* How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit.
* “That hurt.” On being Chevy Chase.
* Hitting rock bottom: they’re rebooting Santa Claus.
* And just one Oscar link is all you need: Lupita Nyong’o.
Written by gerrycanavan
March 3, 2014 at 9:08 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Gerry Canavan 
I started reading that fusion article in the New Yorker before I realized I didn’t have time to finish it. However, when they were describing what it’s meant to do, all I could think of was Spider Man 2. “For God sakes, protect the artificial intelligence inhibitor better!”
mattintoledo
March 4, 2014 at 7:35 am