Posts Tagged ‘Law and Order’
Thursday Morning!
* A major new report suggests serious underemployment among liberal arts majors, affecting as many as 50% of recent graduates in some majors.
* Liu Cixin has an essay on Death’s End up at Tor: Chinese Literature and Apocalyptic SF: Some Notes on Death’s End (and has a review up already as well). My review probably won’t be published for another few weeks, so I’ll just say again: just buy it!
* Once more, with feeling: Student evaluations are useless.
* CFP: The Job Market. CFP: Loanwords to Live With. I know some of the editors of the Loanwords project and I think it looks really exciting. CFC: A Marxist Game.
* Congratulations to Claudia Rankine on her MacArthur grant.
* The New Republic reviews Alice Kaplan’s new book on The Stranger.
* David Fahrenthold’s reporting on Trump’s foundation has yielded a major scoop, evidence of self-dealing in public documents that would appear to be trivially against the law. Even wilder: this is their defense.
* America: taste the rainbow.
* Instapundit has been suspended from Twitter for a tweet about the Charlotte protests. The tweet in question seems pretty indefensible to me, though Reynolds tries at the link, and regardless of its defensibility suspending him for it seems likely to have very bad consequences both for Twitter and for left academics on a pragmatic level. 9:04 AM UPDATE: He’s already back on.
* “Actuaries shamelessly, although often in good faith, understate pension obligations by as much as 50 percent,” said Jeremy Gold, an actuary and economist, in a speech last year at the M.I.T. Center for Finance and Policy. “Their clients want them to.”
* Seven charts that speak volumes about the opioid epidemic.
* Since the dawn of time, man has fought the rat.
* From Back to the Future II to Stephen King’s saving-JFK novel 11/23/63, the lesson one learns again and again is that trying to improve the world through time travel is a fool’s game, creating far worse problems than whatever you’d hoped to fix. Most of time travel fiction these days is one way or another designed to help us swallow the bitter pill that this life is the one we’re stuck with, that trying to make things better will only backfire.
* Cut-throat academia leads to ‘natural selection of bad science’, claims study.
* Something has gone wrong with our atheists.
* The bear who fought in World War II.
* Stranger Things spinoff greenlit.
* Going to go ahead and greenlight this one too: Family flee home after finding spiders which can cause four-hour erection followed by death in ASDA bananas.
* AI will eliminate 6 percent of jobs in five years, says report. Yes, even yours!
* Greenland’s huge annual ice loss is even worse than thought.
* A Massive Sinkhole Just Dumped Radioactive Waste Into Florida Water.
* In the Criminal Justice System the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups, the police and the police.
* Teaching the controversy: “Should police officers be required to provide medical aid to people they’ve shot?”
* Slate vs. Stone re: Snowden.
* The Internet and the end of porn.
* Contradictions of Capital and Care.
* The end, one hopes, of Anthony Weiner.
* “Karen Gillan Promises There’s a Reason Her Jumanji Character Is Dressed Like That.”
* Been there: Child’s Loose Grasp On Balloon Only Thing Between Peace And Anarchy At Restaurant.
* School lunch worker forced to throw away student’s hot meal decides to quit.
* Save the Day, from Joss Whedon.
* Take that, every authority figure in my personal history! A new study finds that fidgeting — the toe-tapping, foot-wagging and other body movements that annoy your co-workers — is in fact good for your health.
* Political correctness run amok.
* These are the most lewd-sounding town names in each state.
* And now, truly, more than ever: “Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pitt.”
Gerry Canavan 