Weekend Links!
* Coming round again soon: The Marquette/UWM Graduate Student Humanities Conference.
* NIH to Cease Use of Chimpanzees in Research. SeaWorld to end orca shows in San Diego.
* Is it Ethical to Colonize Mars? And more!
* People have been claiming to own the moon for 250 years.
* Kim Stanley Robinson – Rethinking Our Relationship to the Biosphere. Our Generation Ships Will Sink.
* Translating Gender: Ancillary Justice in Five Languages.
* The 7 deadly sins of world-building.
* 5 Must See Sci-Fi Films From Indigenous Filmmakers.
* World Fantasy Award To Abandon Lovecraft Bust.
* Conor Friedersdorf close-reads the videos from Mizzou. The power of the strike. Tressie McMillan Cottam vs. David Simon.
The revealed strike power of NCAA players is going to be attacked by every administration and administrative body in the country soon.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 12, 2015
This is the moment for players to unionize, because next year refusing to play is going to be a nuclear-grade offense in the NCAA.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 12, 2015
There is no way they are going to leave players holding a millions-of-dollars-per-week bomb that can go off at any time.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 12, 2015
* UNC Fires Two More in Scandal Over Sham Courses.
* In a major shift for California community colleges, the system’s Board of Governors voted Monday to oust the controversial accrediting commission that has overseen campus quality for half a century and is threatening to shut down City College of San Francisco.
* Justice Department could do two-year review of Milwaukee police.
* Many Say High Deductibles Make Their Health Law Insurance All but Useless.
* Working with the conservative estimate that vampires only need to feed once a month, Efthimiou and Gandhi looked at population stats and concluded that vampires would eliminate humans within three years.
* Explaining Your Math: Unnecessary at Best, Encumbering at Worst.
* Michael Bérubé on Humans, Superheroes, Mutants, and People with Disabilities at TEDxPSU.
* A Six-Figure Settlement on Campus Free Speech. What’s Salaita’s Six-Figure Settlement Really Worth? And while I don’t have a crystal ball, I’d be surprised if any university ever tried to pull this kind of stunt again. I’ll take that bet, alas.
* What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs.
* White People Explain Why They Feel Oppressed.
* The University of Nowhere: The False Promise of “Disruption.”
* I suppose musicalization comes for all of us in its time.
* Parents Have Been Requesting Star Wars Toys for Their Daughters For Decades.
* Kierna Shipka ranks the Bobby Drapers.
* Tolkien criticism today. A reply.
* Earth’s climate entering new ‘permanent reality’ as CO2 hits new high.
* Can the Muppet speak? Jim Henson’s Newly Discovered Journal Reveals The Muppets’ Fascinating Backstory.
* You won’t live to see the final Star Wars movie.
* Teach the controversy: Is BB-8 a boy or a girl?
* An Oral History of the Nerdier Half of Freaks and Geeks.
* John Malkovich and Robert Rodriguez Have Made A Movie No One Will See For 100 Years.
* Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades.
* The Last Child Soldier: “Beasts of No Nation” and the Child-Soldier Narrative.
* Ready for Hillary! The Clintons’ so-called charitable enterprise has served as a vehicle to launder money and to enrich family friends.
* Watch Elmo give Julia Louis-Dreyfus a hard time for cursing on Sesame Street.
* This is a serious political debate that actually happened: Ben Carson would not abort baby Hitler. Jeb Bush: ‘Hell Yeah, I Would’ Kill Baby Hitler.
* And some bad news for my particular demographic: Warped sense of humour ‘can be early sign of dementia.’
Written by gerrycanavan
November 19, 2015 at 8:47 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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