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Tuesday Links!
* CFP: Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction & Fantasy.
* CFP: Sexual Violence, Social Movements, and Social Media.
* Tonight! I’m talking at this event about Black Panther, oppression, and liberation for the MU Amnesty International chapter.
* The Revealer has an excerpt from Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia.
* Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration.
Re-reading Infinity Gauntlet and honestly it looks like Thanos was just trying to help. pic.twitter.com/PCBlHZsNv9
— Hucky Barnes: The Twintter Soldier (@TylerHuckabee) April 24, 2018
* How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.
* The Professor Who’s Warning the World About Facebook and Google.
* How Dual Enrollment Contributes to Inequality.
* Reading on the Chaos in the UW system.
* “Wisconsin Won’t Remove Names of KKK Affiliates From Buildings. It Will Build an Exhibit Instead.” Could do both, you know!
* Which Animal Kills the Most Humans?
* Woman condemned to live in hell forever.
* “James Cameron Compares His Avatar Sequels to The Godfather, But Admits That Could Be a Huge Mistake.” Oh, you think that could be a mistake, do you?
* The myth of an ending: why even removing Trump from office won’t save American democracy.
* The good news for Trump is that this is the last bit of embarrassing tape footage out there [pauses, touches finger to ear] I’m being told the pee tape is real.
* Woman fined $500 for taking her in-flight apple off the plane.
* Shock report: Man whose only qualification was physical proximity to Trump may not be qualified to run the VA.
* Unbelievable desecration on the Cinderella Blu-ray. Who signed off on this?
The Blu-ray of CINDERELLA (right) has been so scrubbed of grain that they've actually destroyed the linework in some scenes pic.twitter.com/TlqiVk5eY6
— Stephen Duignan (@stephen_duignan) April 23, 2018
* Walking Dead and Fringe Director Seith Mann Will Bring BLACK to the Big Screen.
* The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe.”
* She created a document to warn women of sexual harassers. It’s haunted her ever since.
* This App Can Tell You the Indigenous History of the Land You Live On.
* Your Next Job Interview Could Be with a Racist Bot.
* Here come the climate gentrifiers.
* It’s OK to Say if You Went Back in Time and Killed Baby Hitler.
This is like a painting from the Renaissance. pic.twitter.com/nhmxYxD0vC
— Frank Pallotta (@frankpallotta) April 22, 2018
* Husband-wife Gaffigan comedy team will be Marquette’s spring commencement speakers.
* I say teach the controversy.
Southern Illinois University is recruiting PhD grads for VOLUNTEER faculty positions. Duties include teaching undergrad and grad classes, committee service, and thesis supervision. https://t.co/i1y84exQFc
— Melissa Hubbard (@melissa_hubbard) April 23, 2018
Written by gerrycanavan
April 24, 2018 at 8:32 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Tuesday Morning Links!
* Fear of Stigma Lingers About Use of Family-Friendly Policies. Should You Have a Baby in Grad School?
* Don’t Drink Starbucks Free College PR Stunt, Full of Bees. Some details.
* Sun Ra: jazz’s interstellar voyager.
The remaining 5 percent are my greatest concern. These trustees can cause real damage to the institutions they serve by acting in dysfunctional ways. They play petty politics with almost everything; try to micromanage the institution; attempt to go around the president and lead from the shadows; they tend to be critical of faculty but not knowledgeable or curious about faculty life and offer simple solutions to complex and sticky challenges.
Over the past several years, I have talked with many presidents who believe this small group of toxic boards is growing in size and impact and migrating north towards 10 percent of all boards. We simply cannot afford this.
* In my defense, though, anyone following the humanities death watch for the last 600 years would be struck both by its recurring characters and its disconnect from objective fact. Burton wrote in the age of Shakespeare, when the remarkable growth of literacy drove the first golden age of vernacular literature. Whittemore wrote while English as an academic discipline was in the midst of a meteoric rise, climbing from 17,240 BA degrees granted in 1950 to 64,342 in 1971. After a steep drop in the 1980s, English is now back to a robust 53,767 degrees granted per year, and 295,221 students per year graduate with humanities degrees—more than any field except business.
* NLRB revises Columbia College Chicago decision to the benefit of administration, by a factor of about 30X.
* Austin and segregation. Milwaukee and Scott Walker.
Over the past few decades, Walker’s home turf of metropolitan Milwaukee has developed into the most bitterly divided political ground in the country—“the most polarized part of a polarized state in a polarized nation,” as a recent series by Craig Gilbert in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel put it. Thanks to a quirk of twentieth-century history, the region encompasses a heavily Democratic and African American urban center, and suburbs that are far more uniformly white and Republican than those in any other Northern city, with a moat of resentment running between the two zones. As a result, the area has given rise to some of the most worrisome trends in American political life in supercharged form: profound racial inequality, extreme political segregation, a parallel-universe news media. These trends predate Walker, but they have enabled his ascent, and his tenure in government has only served to intensify them. Anyone who believes that he is the Republican to save his party—let alone win a presidential election—needs to understand the toxic and ruptured landscape he will leave behind.
* In Milwaukee and U.S., hospitals follow money to suburbs.
* World Cup minute! Crunching the US’s chances of advancing out of its group. Meanwhile: Ghana has to ration electricity just so everyone can watch the World Cup.
* Louie, creep. Game of Thrones and the female gaze. HBO Explains Why They Failed To Make An American Gods TV Show. Read George R. R. Martin’s 1963 Letter To Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
* How Marquette brought in its first lay president.
* Totally outrageous: Indiana Punished Inmate With More Time Behind Bars For Doing What Prison Staff Told Him To Do.
* California Prison’s ‘Pay-To-Stay’ Option Offers ‘Quieter’ Rooms For $155 A Day. Prison labor’s new frontier: Artisanal foods. When Brooklyn juries gentrify, defendants lose.
* Father Of The Bride sequel about gay marriage reportedly in the works.
* A team of Harvard scientists believe the remnants of an ancient Earth, dating to the time another planet collided with ours to produce the moon, may still be lodged deep within the Earth’s mantle. Earth may have underground ‘ocean’ three times that on surface. Dibs on the screenplay.
* Circles within circles, rings within rings: I was told you are interested in my group’s (Codename: Lollipop) ongoing operation against the PoOs (People of Oppression). My group poses as feminists on twitter. We bait other PoOs into agreeing with us as we subtly move them more and more to the extreme. The purpose is to make moderate feminists turned off with the movement, as well as cause infighting within the group. As some of our operatives have been compromised, my commander has given me permission to make some of their conversations on twitter public. We want to let the PoOs know that we have infiltrated them so that they begin to accuse each other of being Lollipop operatives.
* Our long national nightmare &c: Duke will rename Aycock.
* Gasp! Missile defense still a giant boondoggle!
* The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth, warns New York Times. Meanwhile, Chelsea Manning has an op-ed.
* Understanding commencement speakers at SMBC.
* American meritocracy, Chelsea Clinton edition.
* The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between Animals and Humans.
* The Grand Budapest Hotel, as it was always meant to be seen.
* We’re never going to get to Mars.
* A new report shows nuclear weapons almost detonated in North Carolina in 1961.
Written by gerrycanavan
June 17, 2014 at 9:18 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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