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Wednesday Links!
* Marquette English’s course offerings for summer and fall 2015, including my courses on Science Fiction as Genre, J.R.R. Tolkien, and American Literature after the American Century.
* Speaking of my courses, this is such an incredible answer to the last few weeks of my cultural preservation course I almost feel as though I somehow made it up.
* An amazing late comment on my Universities, Mismanagement, and Permanent Crisis post, including some great commentary on the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.
* My review isn’t coming for a few months, but I really loved Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora. I can’t wait to talk to people about it. I don’t want to spoil anything so I’ll keep my mouth shut for now.
* If you want a vision of the future: Sweet Briar College, Citing ‘Financial Challenges,’ Will Close Its Doors in August. (More, more.) Clarkson U., Union Graduate College Explore Merger. It’s Final: UNC Board of Governors Votes To Close Academic Centers. Jindal cuts higher ed by 78%.
* It’s always “the end of college.”
* “De-tenure.” Don’t worry, it’s just another regrettable drafting error!
* Why we occupy: Dutch universities at the crossroads.
* The academic-fraud scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has focused largely on how fake undergraduate classes helped athletes maintain their eligibility to compete. In an article in The News & Observer over the weekend, a former UNC official says athletics officials also sometimes asked the university’s graduate school to bend the rules to admit athletes in order to extend their eligibility.
* This is the best Dean of Eureka Moments post yet. Maybe literally the best possible.
associate vice provost of failure successes
— Dean O. Eureka (@deaneureka) February 28, 2015
* College admissions and former inmates.
* Nine out of ten startups fail, which is why every institution in society should be converted to the startup model immediately.
* The Search for a Useable Past: An Interview with Paul Buhle on Radical America.
* The politicization of even the idea of knowledge.
* Michigan Frat’s 48-Hour Rager Wrecks Resort, Causes $430,000 in Damages.
* Le Guin vs. Ishiguo: “Are they going to say this is fantasy?”
* The United States of Megadrought: If you think that California is dry now, wait till the 2050s.
* US sea level north of New York City ‘jumped by 128mm.’
* A Major Surge in Atmospheric Warming Is Probably Coming in the Next Five Years.
* Vox considers the end of American democracy: 1, 2.
* Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules. Hillary Clinton’s personal email account looks bad now. But it was even worse at the time.
* Why aren’t the seven witnesses to Dendinger’s nonexistent assault on Cassard already facing felony charges? Why are all but one of the cops who filed false reports still wearing badges and collecting paychecks? Why aren’t the attorneys who filed false reports facing disbarment? Dendinger’s prosecutors both filed false reports, then prosecuted Dendinger based on the reports they knew were false. They should be looking for new careers — after they get out of jail.
* When A Newspaper Gave Blade Runner‘s Replicant Test To Mayor Candidates.
* “An ode to Juiceboxxx, a 27-year-old rapper from Milwaukee no one’s ever heard of.”
* “When Your Father Is the BTK Serial Killer, Forgiveness Is Not Tidy.”
* Scott Walker Wants To Stop Funding Renewable Energy Research Center. Of course he does.
* Defense Bill Passes, Giving Sacred Native American Sites To Mining Company.
* The forgotten masterpieces of African modernism.
* Man gets life in prison for selling $20 worth of weed to undercover cop.
* Justice department determines Ferguson is a terrible place.
* The Americans and austerity.
* Two ways of looking at income inequality.
* How a French insurer wrote the worst contract in the world and sold it to thousands of clients.
* Teach students about consent in high school.
* Vermont Town May Allow 16- And 17-Year-Olds To Vote In Local Elections.
* Crunching the numbers: How Long Can A Spinoff Like ‘Better Call Saul’ Last?
* What Marvel Characters End Up Being Called In Other Languages.
* Careers of the future: professional dumpster diver.
* It’s where those parallel lives diverge, though, that might provide a lasting new insight. Beginning on the day in 1968 when Jack was drafted and Jeff was not, Jack suffered a series of shifts and setbacks that his brother managed to avoid: two years serving stateside in the military, an early marriage, two children in quick succession, a difficult divorce, and finally, in the biggest blow of all, the sudden death of his teenage son. After these key divergences in their lives, Jack went on to develop not only Parkinson’s but two other diseases that Jeff was spared, glaucoma and prostate cancer. The twins place great stock in these divergences, believing they might explain their medical trajectories ever since. Scientists are trying to figure out whether they could be right.
* Mars One colonists better off eating frozen pizza than local veggies.
* Local Lab In Berkeley Accidentally Discovers Solution To Fix Color Blindness.
* Things I Can Say About MFA Writing Programs Now That I No Longer Teach in One.
* How the MFA Glut Is a Disservice to Students, Teachers, and Writers.
But there’s another breed of MFA program out there, proliferating constantly. These programs have nearly 100% admittance rates, fund zero percent of their students, collect outrageously high tuition, and often pay their instructors very little. And because there are so many people (rightly or wrongly) clamoring for MFAs, they have no incentive for standards, either—no incentive to reject any person, no matter how badly they write. One person’s money is as green as the next, after all. If you’ve received an undergraduate degree and can type on a computer, you’re in.
* 10-Year-Old Math Genius Studying for University Degree.
* The Last Man on Earth really shouldn’t work. And yet…
* Officials at Arizona State University probably weren’t expecting the full Stormfront treatment when its English department advertised a spring semester class exploring the “problem of whiteness.”
* No shades of grey in teaching relationships.
* Pendulum keeps swinging: Now Americans Should Drink Much More Coffee.
* It’s been so long so I posted one of these I haven’t even linked to anything about the dress yet.
* In 1971, William Powell published The Anarchist Cookbook, a guide to making bombs and drugs at home. He spent the next four decades fighting to take it out of print.
* Why Americans Don’t Care About Prison Rape.
* Robear: the bear-shaped nursing robot who’ll look after you when you get old. What could possibly go wrong?
* In the 1800s, Courts Tried to Enforce Partnerships With Dolphins.
* The 16 Strangest Dragons In Dungeons & Dragons.
* Mark your everythings: Community comes back March 17.
* First the gorilla who punched the photographer, now this.
* And the arc of history is long, but: North Carolina Legalizes Call Girls For Politicians.
Meanwhile, in heaven … #LeonardNimoy #LLAP pic.twitter.com/kn1a6RiDuA
— Kirsten Heffron (@KirstenHeffron) February 27, 2015
Written by gerrycanavan
March 4, 2015 at 8:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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