No One Ever Expects Wednesday Links
* Nearly one-third of public college presidents serve on corporate boards. Most of those companies exist in far-flung industries, and the issues at play are different: Why should college presidents involve themselves with shipping, with search engines, with banking?
* President of Ireland Affirms Value of the Humanities. Ireland, you’re not so bad yourself!
* Reprints and British Comics.
* This crazy space-age Satellite Hotel could’ve put Milwaukee on the map.
* “I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones.”
* Cincinnatus watch: Paul Ryan just said he would not accept the GOP presidential nomination at the convention.
* The First Year of Teaching Can Feel Like a Fraternity Hazing.
* Guns on campus; adjuncts hardest hit.
* 4 big questions about the race to Mars. Under Obama, NASA finds itself in a familiar place: Big goals but inadequate funds.
* Ladies and gentlemen, Doctor Strange. Some commentary.
* LARoB reviews The New Mutants : Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics.
* Music to my ears: Why Story of Your Life May Be the Year’s Breakout Sci-fi Movie.
* Television without Pity is coming back!
* A list of games that Buddha would not play.
* The sheep look up: Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048.
* Perpetual Present: The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Past—Or Imagine Her Future.
* Any sufficiently advanced non-Newtonian fluid pool is indistinguishable from magic.
* The Guardian read the comments.
* Navy Officer Rescued 3 From Remote Pacific Island After Seeing Sign For Help.
This photo provided by U.S. Navy released April 7, 2016 shows two men waving life jackets and look on as a U.S. Navy P-8A maritime surveillance aircraft discovers them on the uninhabited island of Fanadik. The three men were back to safety on Thursday, April 7, 2016, three days after going missing. (U.S. Navy/Ensign John Knight via AP)
Gerry Canavan 
I got interrupted while reading the article about needing maintenance more than innovation, but the text in the hotlink is a really eye opening, brilliantly worded statement. We don’t need the next “Uber, but for….”. We need the next here’s this really reliable, boring way to pay for bridges.
mattintoledo
April 13, 2016 at 2:06 pm