Just a Few Thursday Links!

* Climate change is now a bedtime story.

* Geek temporalities and the spirit of capital.

* In 2001, three frameworks for handling international crises emerged: the War on Terror, an ill-defined “responsibility to protect” struggling countries, and the Caribbean movement for reparations. The first two have failed, but the third may still have something to tell us.

* Most public flagship universities are failing to meet the financial needs of low- and middle-income students, a report finds, and are overly subsidizing wealthier students.

* Ohio State loses its brazen attempt to trademark the most common word in the English language.

* Hype vs. reality at the MIT Media Lab.

* Sociologists against student evaluations.

* STEM Is Overrated.

* Survival, Daniel believed, was possible with the proper accommodations. “One simply needs something along the lines of a greenhouse with good air filtration to grow plants,” he wrote on 4chan, “and a fallout shelter.” Thanks to his mother’s death, he had the means to build one: She’d left him a trust worth $2.6 million.

So with North Korea’s nuclear arsenal under the direction of a new, fanatical leader, Daniel had the freedom to undertake his most ambitious experiment yet. Alone in the house, he chose a spot in his basement and began to dig.

* Fired, then rehired: Once-secret records show how the police arbitration system overturned the firings or discipline of more than 100 questionable Philadelphia cops.

* Trump’s got a taste for human flesh now.

* Lin-Manuel Miranda and the dialectic.

* In the richest country in human history: 9-year-old student’s hot lunch is taken away over a $9.75 unpaid balance, grandmother says. The Ohio boy was given a cheese sandwich to eat instead. The incident happened on his birthday, his grandmother said.

* And has the world moved past the Avatar franchise? Does it even remember Avatar?