Tuesday Is Soylent Green Day Links

* Exciting news! My book, Octavia E. Butler (the latest in the University of Illinois’s Modern Masters of Science Fiction series) has a November 1 publication date and a pre-order page on Amazon!

* Some upcoming events at Marquette English this month: “Resume Doctor and Interview Bootcamp” and a Pop Culture and Pizza Night on Hamilton: An American Musical. There’s also MuHuCon this weekend and the Marquette/UWM joint conference next weekend.

* And speaking of Hamilton: Google Hamilton truth! A little more from LGM and William Hogeland.

I guess I’m an optimist but I think our greatest crimes are still ahead of us https://t.co/IKwDBXhn2g

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) April 11, 2016

* A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing.

* Though the rumors are that they may actually have learned something from their mistake.

* Kim Stanley Robinson’s Next Book, New York 2140, Will Feature a Half-Submerged Manhattan.

* On Xeno-Colonialism.

* This Church Believes Humans Can Live Forever on Earth. Sold!

* We’re running out of water, and the world’s powers are very worried.

* University of Kansas Acquires 1,000 Zines from a Defunct Radical Library.

* This Is What Really Happens to Your Brain When You’re Tripping on LSD.

* In a case showing the reach of college sports corruption, a former head men’s basketball coach at the University of Southern Mississippi instructed his assistants to complete junior college course work for recruits.

* The Creative Writing of the Internet’s Premier White Supremacist Forum.

* Welcome to Night Vale: Two percent of humans can hear the Hum, a mysterious, low rumble in the distance. It might exist. It might be imaginary. It might be both.

* Diabetes watch: Are full-fat dairy foods better for you after all?

* Can this election get stranger? How Gen. James Mattis could become the unlikeliest U.S. president in history. I don’t know anything about Mattis, and doubt that he’s the guy, but I still think sabotaging the Electoral College by running one or more regional candidates in order to throw the election to the House is the only GOP strategy left that has any chance of success.

* No matter how you measure it, Bernie Sanders isn’t winning the Democratic primary.

The story isn't "why can't Bernie close the gap?" It's: "how is a previously obscure 74 yr old socialist running even with a Clinton?"

— Connor Kilpatrick (@ckilpatrick) April 11, 2016

* Scientists Unveil New ‘Tree of Life.’

* Louis C.K. Has Millions in Debt Thanks to “Horace and Pete.”

* Attawapiskat declares state of emergency over spate of suicide attempts.

* The most and least meaningful jobs.

* This Is How Long Sex Should Actually Last. Science.

* The finding that launched a thousand sexist jokes: Men May Be Able to Avoid Dementia by Marrying Intelligent Women, Researchers Say.

* “I think that porn has the power to do what Bruce Springsteen can’t”: Porn Site Bans North Carolina Users Due To State’s Anti-LGBT Laws.

* No one knows why they remained healthy, Friend said. But DNA from such people could one day provide insight into ways to prevent or treat such catastrophic disorders. “Instead of looking at people with disease, you need to look at people who should have gotten sick,” said Friend.

* There’s an insanely well-hidden Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! Easter egg.

* How precious is a longtime family dog? As valuable as an heirloom vase or family photographs? A Wisconsin appeals court says no.

* Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others: After 50 years of animal-welfare legislation, rats and mice are still left out in the cold.

* A major perk of the job for New York State corrections officers may soon be off the table: The ability to be as brutal as they’d like with prisoners without having to worry about facing any serious consequences.

* Last winter two bodies were found in Norway and the Netherlands. They were wearing identical wetsuits. The police in three countries were involved in the case, but never managed to identify them. This is the story of who they were.

* Why Hollywood studios are taking a stand against an anti-revenge-porn bill.

* I want to believe: The Warriors Have A 93 Percent Chance Of Hitting 73 Wins.

* Huge, if true: Planet X to really cause mass extinction this month?

* And I know I say this a lot, but sometimes a thing really is ideology at its purest.