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Saturday Morning Links
* “All the ingredients are there for a near-record or historic cold outbreak,” he said. “If you’re under 40 (years old), you’ve not seen this stuff before.” The Polar Vortex Is Coming.
* Gasp! Most College Presidents, Coaches And Other Leaders Are White Men, Study Confirms.
* A letter from the disciplinary turf war at Duke University.
* Here’s Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make Public College Tuition-Free.
* Michael Bérubé factsplains the MLA convention.
* Slate covers the MLA Subconference.
* Like Sendak and Gaiman, Tolkien insists that fairy tales aren’t inherently “for” children but that we, as adults, simply decide that they are, based on a series of misconceptions about both the nature of this literature and the nature of children.
* Community laughs in the face of your “ratings.”
* Where is the minimum wage increasing in 2014?
* Our brains don’t work: Lavishing Kids With Praise Can Make Them Feel Worse About Themselves.
* A tale of two pot users: OK for elites, illegal for others. David Brooks’ Polluted “Moral Ecology.”
* The Veronica Mars trailer has arrived.
* And the Internet is a massive time-travel killjoy. Why didn’t someone come back and warn us this would happen?
Written by gerrycanavan
January 4, 2014 at 7:58 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Christmas Hangover Links
* I knew there was a loophole! Pope says atheists are OK with Jesus, so long as they “do good.”
* Why bother? On family obligation. On institutional breakdown.
* Folks, we need to talk: The Creepy Surveillance of Elf on a Shelf.
* Canada issues Santa Claus a passport.
* Chinese State Media: China’s Air is Too Polluted for Santa to Fly.
* The Work of Christmas in the Age of TBS’ “24 Hours of A Christmas Story.”
* Christmas and the socialist objective.
* The FBI considered “It’s a Wonderful Life” to be Communist propaganda.
* That Christmas Spirit: US emergency food providers brace as $5bn food stamp cuts set in.
* A Map That Reveals the Most Popular TV Show Set in Your Home State.
* We are creating Walmarts of higher education—convenient, cheap, and second-rate.
* We’re Constantly in Fear: The life of a part-time professor.
* Bullying in Academia More Prevalent Than Thought.
* College watchdog groups sharpening their teeth.
* Adjunct Nate Silver has been studying the academic job market in German since 2007: who posts jobs, and who gets jobs. Part 1.
* The Year of the Crush: How the Radically Unfair Candy Crush Saga Took Over Our Lives.
* Why we’re doomed: what Obama reads.
Obama does reserve a certain respect for opinion writers such as Tom Friedman and David Brooks of The New York Times, Jerry Seib of The Wall Street Journal, E. J. Dionne of The Washington Post, and Joe Klein of Time. “My impression is that he reads a lot of columnists,” says Brooks, “and therefore he sort of cares about what they say.”
* And then Amazon ate everything, Someday it might even make a profit!
* The Tumblr of forever: sffworthy.tumblr.com.
* Gasp! Judge: Detroit’s Debt Deal Too Generous To Wall Street.
* North Carolina’s bad plan to take lawyers away from poor people.
* Trying to learn Arabic is now officially probable cause.
* …even though the Obama administration has called on Western buyers to use their purchasing power to push for improved industry working conditions after several workplace disasters over the last 14 months, the American government has done little to adjust its own shopping habits.
* “Choice” is the illusion of power. Vouchers were not dreamed up to provide choice, but to deny it. We need to avoid confusing a justification with an explanation.
* eBay removes anti-Zimmerman artwork the same day Zimmerman’s painting sells for $100k.
* Book bannings on the rise in US schools, says anti-censorship group.
* More proof that America’s prison epidemic is a complete disaster.
* Why MLB Hitters Can’t Hit Jennie Finch and the Science of Reaction Time.
* Carbon Footprint Of Best Conserving Americans Is Still Double Global Average. Inevitable Milwaukee-based “wait, maybe this isn’t so bad” joke.
* Inevitable “well, there’s always Mars” joke.
* The selective disappearance of large animals marks this period out from other extinction episodes, and was the start of what Estes and his fellow authors suggested “is arguably humankind’s most pervasive influence on the natural world”. For Estes, it was the beginning of the sixth mass extinction.
* Does the ASA Boycott Violate Academic Freedom? A Roundtable. The ASA, scholarly responsibility and the call for academic boycott of Israel. Why I changed my mind about the ASA boycott.
* Billionaire’s role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions.
* Nightmare watch: Teen Girl Shot, Killed by Stepdad While Trying to Sneak Back Into House. Texas School Retaliated Against Student For ‘Public Lewdness’ After She Reported Rape.
* An Oral History of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s ‘Baby Got Back’ Video.
* Democrats are over (if you want it): Democrats desperately want war with Iran.
* And the BBC has a Sherlock season three minisode. God bless us, every one!
Written by gerrycanavan
December 26, 2013 at 10:51 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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