Wednesday Links
* Marquette English’s medievalist search closes today! Get your applications in!
* Advice for academics: how to write a research statement.
* The digital humanities and the MLA JIL.
* Junot Diaz on academic freedom and Palestine.
* The Plot Against Public Education.
* Grooming Students for A Lifetime of Surveillance.
* Yet another roundup on the death of the faculty.
* Holy picket lines, Batman! Marxism and superheroes, part two: the struggle.
* The right to die: Terminally Ill 29-Year-Old Woman: Why I’m Choosing to Die on My Own Terms.
* Is Rick & Morty the best cartoon since The Simpsons season four? Probably! You Need to Be Watching Rick and Morty. Seriously.
* Google Glass and facial recognition.
* American Empire, by the numbers.
* An open access book: Joanna Zylinska’s Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene.
4. The people making the claim eventually die. At that point the claim is acknowledged as having been credible.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) October 5, 2014
5. But because the claimants are dead, it is said that nothing can be done. Society shrugs, moves on, because, uhm, black on black crime.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) October 5, 2014
* War is a racket, Prophet Samuel edition.
* Wealth of richest 400 Americans surges to $2.29 trillion.
* The mission of the humanities is to transmit questions about value – and to question values – by testing traditions that build up over centuries and millennia. And within the humanities, it is the discipline of history that provides an antidote to short-termism, by giving pointers to the long future derived from knowledge of the deep past. Yet at least since the 1970s, most professional historians – that is, most historians holding doctorates in the field and teaching in universities or colleges – conducted most of their research on timescales of between five and 50 years.
* We’re probably teaching math wrong.
* Daria Morgendorffer’s Reading List.
* Hey, you, get your damn hands off her.
* Venus Green, who was 87 when she was handcuffed, roughed up and injured by police, will receive $95,000 as part of a settlement with Baltimore City. The quote doesn’t even reflect the most bananas part: Woman, 90, locked officer in basement, settles with police.
* Ga. Cops Who Blew Off Toddler’s Face With Grenade Won’t Be Charged.
* Did I do this one already? Infinite Jest, as it was meant to be read.
* Stay informed: Nicolet National Forest is Milwaukee’s “zombie safe zone.”
* National Adjunct Walkout Day Planned.
* The gum you like is going to come back in style.
* And that gum you like is going to come back in style.
* Startups Did Not Get Last Month’s Memo To Stop Burning All Their Money.
* MIT researchers are developing a “second skin” space suit lined with tiny coils that contract when switched on, tightening the garment around the body. The coils (image below) in the “BioSuit” are made from shape-memory alloy that “remembers” its shape when bent and returns to its original form if heated.
* Marvel will finally try to make some money off the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.
* Boston Review on vulture capitalism.
* MetaFilter mega-post on sex work and consent.
* The United States and alcoholism. Some anti-big-data-journalism pushback.
* And now at last we see the violence inherent in the system.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US Senate http://t.co/8LS8TRMkAo
— congress-edits (@congressedits) October 7, 2014
Written by gerrycanavan
October 8, 2014 at 9:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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