Tuesday Links!
* In case you missed it, I put up a short thing about The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt yesterday. It was an odd and sad day to have done so, in retrospect.
* And here’s everything we know about season 2 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
* Some (more) thoughts on the Hugos. And some more.
* Science Fiction Film and Television 8.1 is now available. And don’t forget our call for papers on Star Trek at 50!
* If you want a vision of the future: University of Florida admits 3,000 students — then tells them it is only for online program.
* Visiting Africa: A Short Guide for Researchers.
* Rolling Stone has retracted their UVA story, as well as a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism detailing what went wrong. Reaction online has generally been that the Columbia report doesn’t go nearly far enough, and that RS is in total denial about the seriousness of what they did — though there’s speculation that RS‘s non-response is at least partially driven by the fact that the fraternity plans to sue.
* What happens when you build a town around a prison?
* The American West dries up. In a development that will surprise no one, California’s wealthy aren’t doing their part to save water. Water-rationing plan leaves corporate interests untouched. Nestlé called out for bottling, selling California water during drought. And the state has been fracking into their aquifers this whole time. We know what our problems are and we do nothing or make them worse.
* Report: Majority Of Earth’s Potable Water Trapped In Coca-Cola Products.
* Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs.
* Man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma. Bonus points for a truly good headline pun: “Weather Underground.”
* First Gorgeous Look At Mark Z. Danielewski’s New Series, The Familiar!
* Finally, someone is responding to voter ID panic in the proper way.
* Can Marxist theory predict the end of Game of Thrones?
* A former Harvard associate professor is pursuing a federal Title IX lawsuit against the university, alleging she was discriminated against while trying to secure tenure there in 2013.
* NYC officials remove Edward Snowden statue secretly installed in Brooklyn park.
* “Recognizing that Native American art was made by individuals, not tribes, and labeling it accordingly, is a practice that is long overdue,” said Dan L. Monroe, executive director of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., which has a large Indian collection and has made some attempts to identify individual artists since the mid-1990s.
* In short, ruin porn hides more than it shows. It creates the hyper-visibility of some elements of crisis, usually infrastructural damage and death, while simultaneously making others invisible, namely the social and political forces that engender uneven patterns–and origins–of damage and recovery.
* I was arrested 75 times: how violent policing destroys mental health.
* Strange fashion choices of the 24th century.
* Inside Brown’s plan to make its faculty more diverse. I don’t see how “postdoctoral fellowships” is even part of this conversation. Postdocs aren’t faculty.
* Paul “Freaks & Geeks” Feig has a new show, outer space comedy Other Space.
* Lucille Ball statue terrorizes small town.
* And I’ll see you again in twenty-five years: The Twin Peaks revival is apparently going to happen without David Lynch.
Written by gerrycanavan
April 7, 2015 at 7:24 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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