Posts Tagged ‘Greystone Park’
Sunday Afternoon
* This is, I think, literally the first time I have ever heard of university budget cuts impacting administration. Meanwhile.
* Meanwhile meanwhile, Congress talks adjuncts and adjunctification. I’m sure they’ll come up with a good solution soon.
* Tressie McMillan Cottom on race and adjunctification.
* Yo novel so staid and conventional, it’s taught at over 50 MFA programs.
* Submitted for your approval: An OCR of the MLA JIL list, 1965-2012.
* Bérubé’s last post on MLA 2014.
* Harvard, MIT Online Courses Dropped by 95% of Registrants.
* Inside a for-profit college nightmare.
* Inside the “longform backlash.”
* How Student Activists at Duke Transformed a $6 Billion Endowment.
* “Income inequality” has proved a very successful framing for Democrats discussing a massive social problem, so of course the Obama White House is rolling out a much worse one.
* Pope Francis Is Drafting An Encyclical On The Environment.
* Demographics is destiny: Latinos overwhelmingly want action on climate change.
* How nonviolent was the civil rights movement?
* It’s 1968, and Esquire is interviewing James Baldwin.
* Chris Christie says no to dashboard cameras.
* The coming Common Core meltdown.
* Highly Educated, Highly Indebted: The Lives of Today’s 27-Year-Olds, In Charts.
* America’s nuclear corps are a mess. Dr. Strangelove was a documentary.
* A journey to the end of the world (of Minecraft).
* Science has finally proved that sex reverses cognitive decline in rats.
* This World Map Shows The Enormity Of America’s Prison Problem.
* The New York Times has the tragic story of a man with a million dollars in his retirement account struggling to scrape by on just $31,500 a month. Truly, there but for the grace of God go we.
* Bucking trend, Wisconsin union membership grows.
* Fox to strand reality show contestants on an island for an entire year.
* Woody Guthrie’s daughter wants to preserve Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.
* The “okay, fine, let’s abolish all marriages” response to marriage equality is so strange to me. I know things like this happened during the civil rights movement — and one might argue that precisely the same thing has been happening in slow-motion to public education over the last few decades — but it still seems like such a strange, uniquely twenty-first-century temper tantrum.
* Behold, the 90s! The Most Impressive Costumes from Star Trek: TNG’s First 3 Seasons.
* Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath.
* We Didn’t Eat the Marshmallow. The Marshmallow Ate Us.
* And Stephen Hawking wants to destroy all your silly, silly dreams.
Wednesday Night!
* Kinsey gaffe from the Times re: CUNY: Mr. Milliken, 56, the president of the University of Nebraska since 2004, will take over a school system that has undergone a spate of recent expansion but is still troubled by large pockets of impoverished and academically lagging students, the overwhelming majority of whom come from the city’s public schools. Still troubled by existence of the students the school was established to serve. Must be a real nightmare over there.
* Women Destroy Science Fiction!
* First as tragedy… Žižek’s Jokes contains every joke cited, paraphrased, or narrated in Žižek’s work in English (including some in unpublished manuscripts), including different versions of the same joke that make different points in different contexts.
* Oliva Pope fixes Chris Christie.
* Stutzer and Frey found that a person with a one-hour commute has to earn 40% more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office. On the other hand, for a single person, exchanging a long commute for a short walk to work has the same effect on happiness as finding a new love.
* Disband West Virginia. I’m From West Virginia and I’ve Got Something to Say About the Chemical Spill. Why So Many West Virginians Relied on Water from the Elk River: Industry Already Polluted the Others.
* Do You Really Want to Use a Commercial Learning-Management System?
* The colonization counterfactual. “What if Africa had never been colonized but was still re-formed into the kinds of political bodies which colonialism sought to create.”
* The university is dead. The question to ask now is not, how do we bring it back. That’s impossible and quite undesirable. The question is what new forms of genuinely democratic self-organization might rise from its ashes? To even begin to ask this question we must first of all get rid of the police.
* Cultural Preservation: Preserving Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital. This is where Dylan hitchhiked to see Woody Guthrie, right at the border of my hometown.
* BREAKING: Fox Only Talks About Climate Change When It’s Cold.
* RT @wewatchwatchers: In whiteness news: Man found with pipe bomb at Edmonton airport allowed to fly.
* Bruce v. Christie: I’ll allow it.
* Schweitzer tacks against Obama: The inside story of how Obamacare became an insurance-industry bailout.
* NLRB finds that Wal-Mart illegally intimidated and retaliated against organizers. I assume that means the corporation is dissolved and becomes a worker’s collective.
* Studies Confirm: Kids Ruin Your Life. Now they tell me?
* And three years ago it cost me $1000 to sequence one gene. Now that’s what it costs to sequence an entire genome.
Gerry Canavan 