Wednesday Links!
* America’s Lawless, Unaccountable Shadow Government: Opinions Differ.
* Q. and A. on the Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The latest.
* Ghostbusters and the New York Public Library.
* Huge, interactive map of objects police have mistaken for guns.
* The Civil Rights Act Was Not as Important as You Think.
* The greatest trick the devil ever pulled.
* How a seemingly simple message to students brought digital-age disaster for a Wisconsin professor.
* Why Cosmos Can’t Save Public Support for Science.
* The Department of Education’s scoring system for ranking the financial health of universities makes no sense.
* College admissions as socio-economic sorting.
* MOOCtastic: Harvard students told: No questions, please, we’re filming.
* Should you lose your job for failing to raise 80 percent of your salary in outside grants?
* Graduate Students at Cornell Push for Workers’ Compensation. The only question is: why don’t they already have this?
* Jacob Remes introduces the CLASSE Manifesto.
* Patrick Iber on life as a long-term adjunct.
* Dialectics of whether you should let your students call you by your first name.
* If the Founding Fathers were alive today, what do you think they would say?
* There’s ideology at its purest, and then there’s Barack Obama being interviewed by Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns.
* Guantánamo forever, I guess.
* During the first month of recreational marijuana sales, Colorado’s licensed dispensaries generated a total of more than $14 million, putting about $2 million of tax revenue into state coffers in the process.
* Vulture profiles Benjamin Kunkel.
* Two sentence horror stories.
* Public Transit Use In U.S. Is At a 57-Year High, Report Finds. Spraying Toxic Coal Ash Is A Cheap And Popular Way To De-Ice Roads. Bitcoin is Not a Currency.
* What’s making you so fat today: antibiotics.
* “You can’t mourn for the little boy he once was. You can’t fool yourself.”
* Dan Harmon: The Rolling Stone Interview. Mystery project!
* Next year on SyFy: Man Calls 911 After “Hostile” 22-Pound Cat Traps Family in Bedroom.
* BBC America gathers HUGE all-star cast for history of sci-fi documentary.
* That’s cheery: Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years.
* Study: Nuclear Reactors Are Toxic to Surrounding Areas, Especially With Age. No one could have predicted!
* Now human activity makes it rain on the weekends. God, we’re the worst.
* Gasp! Center For American Progress Takes Direction From Obama White House.
* The Supreme Court: as always, why we can’t have nice things.
* Milwaukee homicides rose 15% last year.
* The Almighty Star Trek Lit-verse Reading Order Flowchart.
* The Exquisite Wistfulness of 19th-Century Vegetarian Personal Ads.
* And they say there’s never any good news, but Sbarro’s has filed for bankruptcy.
Written by gerrycanavan
March 11, 2014 at 9:23 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Gerry Canavan 
That 911 call about the angry cat is hilarious (assuming the baby is OK). Pretty bad that Gawker didn’t bleep out the address, though. All the big mean cats in that neighborhood are going to retaliate.
mattintoledo
March 12, 2014 at 1:33 pm