Tuesday! Tuesday! Tuesday!
* Rob Latham’s anthology of essential historical science fiction criticism has a pre-order page. Here’s a table of contents.
* Elsewhere on Amazon: Star Trek Barbies! Rick & Morty Season Two DVDs (out today)!
* The arrival of annual reports on the job market in various humanities fields this year left many graduate students depressed about their prospects and professors worried about the futures of their disciplines. English and foreign language openings were down 3 percent and 7.6 percent, respectively. History jobs fell 8 percent.
* Those of us working in the humanities must accept that our golden age lasted just one generation, argues Leonard Cassuto, and was not the norm.
no American president would ever activate the Beyoncés, the military would never follow the order https://t.co/Y2nM8e0YUc
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 6, 2016
* Some smart comparison between Game of Thrones and the Southern Reach trilogy from Phil Maciak.
* Small-Town America Has a Serious Drinking-Water Problem.
* Bible Verses Where “Behold” Has Been Replaced With “Look, Buddy.”
* Teaching Philosophy on Death Row.
* “American conservatives are the forgotten critics of the atomic bombing of Japan.” Even they forgot about it!
* When former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer interrupted the discussion to inform Trump that his own campaign had asked surrogates to stop talking about the lawsuit in an e-mail on Sunday, Trump repeatedly demanded to know who sent the memo, and immediately overruled his staff. I have to say, this is getting pretty good.
* Inside Trump University. Maybe Trump Really Does Make Less Than $500k a Year.
* “When ‘Diversity’ and ‘Inclusion’ Are Tenure Requirements”: Faculty at Pomona College have set new guidlines—but the students who pushed for the change don’t agree among themselves on their implications.
* John Oliver Steals Rolling Jubilee’s Bad Idea, Doesn’t Give Credit.
If anything they are increasing the value of worthless debt, making the problem worse. https://t.co/Kj4H4Vt2Mc
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 6, 2016
* The Creator of Settlers of Catan Has Some Important Gameplay Advice for You.
* A major Native American site is being looted. Will Obama risk armed confrontation to save it?
* Dialectics of The Little Mermaid.
* Supergirl Is Finally Going to Show Superman as an Actual Character. This only compounds the original mistake; the solution was always to just say Superman is dead or missing and be done with it.
* Seems legit: State Department Blocks Release Of Hillary Clinton-Era TPP Emails Until After The Election. But who’s counting.
* And progress certainly has its advantages.
One in three children used to die before they were 5.
Now one in three hundred. Amazing. https://t.co/QHCZ7H4XWq pic.twitter.com/Q4h3VkZSEB— Tom Forth (@thomasforth) June 3, 2016
Written by gerrycanavan
June 7, 2016 at 9:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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