Posts Tagged ‘politicians’
Thursday Links!
* 2015 CFP for the MRG: “Enthusiasm for Revolution.”
* Reminder: Call for Postdoctoral Fellow: Alternative Futurisms.
* The Long, Wondrous Interview with Junot Díaz You Have to Read. By the great Taryne Taylor! From the same issue of Paradoxa that has my essay on Snowpiercer in it.
* Ellen Craft, the Slave Who Posed as a Master and Made Herself Free.
* Having paddled so hard to avoid the Scylla of hyperprofessionalization in English studies, some promoters of alternative careers may not notice that they are in the grip of Charybdis’s hyperprofessionalization of everything else. The harder they paddle, the harder the whirlpool pulls us all down. Great piece from Marc Bousquet addressing a number of key issues in academic labor.
* Universities without Austerity.
* A History of the MLA Job List.
* The headline reads, “UMass Ends Use of Student Informants.”
* Loved Your Nanny Campus? Start-Up Pledges Similar Services for Grads.
* These Two States Will Revoke Your License If You Can’t Pay Back Your Student Loans.
* These World Leaders Are a Worse Threat to Free Press Than Terrorism.
* Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Newspaper Edits Female World Leaders Out of Charlie Hebdo March.
* What’s Missing From the Debate on Obama’s Free Community-College Plan.
* The end of the university in Louisiana.
* Malcolm Harris: The Small Miracle You Haven’t Heard About Amid the Carnage in Syria.
* Report: Duke Ignored Warnings on Research Fraud.
* 53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama’s Legacy.
* Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s.
* To be clear, late-night votes might be a bit of a problem for Joseph Morrissey, the newly sworn-in Virginia House delegate who must report to his jail cell about 7:30 each evening.
* Muslim Americans are the staunchest opponents of military attacks on civilians, compared with members of other major religious groups Gallup has studied in the United States. Seventy-eight percent of Muslim Americans say military attacks on civilians are never justified.
* $1 Million Prize for Scientists Who Can Cure Human Aging. Sure, I’ll go in for a few bucks on that.
* Too real: Woman’s Parents Accepting Of Mixed-Attractiveness Relationship.
* What If We Could Live In A World Without War But Way More Famine?
* Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor.
* A Cybernetic Implant That Allows Paralyzed Rats To Walk Again.
* In 2014, Florida recorded at least 346 deaths inside of their prison system, an all-time high for the state in spite of the fact that its overall prison population has hovered around 100,000 people for the five previous years. Hundreds of these deaths from 2014 and from previous years are now under investigation by the DOJ because of the almost unimaginable role law enforcement officers are playing in them.
* Last week: The City Is Reportedly Losing $10 Million a Week Because the NYPD Isn’t Writing Enough Tickets. This week: NYPD Slowdown Turns Into “Broken Windows” Crackdown.
* The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Time to Shut it Down.
* Albuquerque cop mistakenly guns down undercover narcotics officer during bungled $60 meth bust. Elsewhere in Albuquerque.
* 1 In 3 College Men In Survey Said They Would Rape A Woman If They Could Get Away With It.
* Danny Boyle Having “Serious” Conversations About 28 Months Later. I’m in as long as it’s the first step towards Years.
* Radically unnecessary Avatar sequels reportedly having script problems. What could explain it?
* Frozen in everything, forever and ever amen.
* Seems legit: NASCAR driver says his ex-girlfriend is a trained assassin.
* This Computer Program Is ‘Incapable Of Losing’ At Poker.
* Scholar and activist Glen Coulthard on the connection between indigenous and anticapitalist struggles.
* This seems like glorified Avengers fan fiction but I’m on board. Meanwhile, in Fantastic Four news.
* Ah, there’s my problem: iPhone Separation Anxiety Makes You Dumber, Study Finds.
* I’m you, from the future! At the 16th most popular webcomic.
* They say time is the fire in which we burn.
* The Marquette Tribune is following the ongoing McAdams suspension at the university.
* Study says we prefer singers who look like big babies during good times. This research must be stopped. Some things mankind was never meant to know.
* Community get a premiere date.
* whothefuckismydndcharacter.com.
* And Cookie-Based Research Suggests Powerful People Are Sloppier Eaters. Of course the sloppy among us have always known this.
Written by gerrycanavan
January 15, 2015 at 8:30 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Fourth of July-ish Links
* Your single chart that explains everything, academia edition:
* The student loan suicides. The graduates of 2012 are already dead. Every Article About Graduate Unemployment Ever.
* This is education in the neoliberal age: a quest not for success, but for survival. You ask what it is that will give your children ‘a better chance’. You find a dispassionately technocratic answer, based on the rigorous analysis of academic achievement data. You discount every factor that might make your children non-average, beginning with their attitudes and desires. While you’re at it, you put out of your mind the very idea of social relationships and of the social good. Remember: your children are drowning. It would be quite absurd at this time to wonder what your friends’ children, what their own friends are up to.
* “Yesterday—only the first day of the month—was hot enough to shatter 27 records and tie 24 others for the highest ever July temperatures. Here’s the whole last week:
Back to back 105 days in my beloved Durham. Are any scientists working on this trying to figure out what’s going on? Firsthand Accounts: Parts of WV, Ohio “Apocalypse” due to the Derecho. Colorado Wildfires Shutter Climate Lab. Get used to wildfires.
* All your preconceptions confirmed: 69 Politicians As They Were In High School.
* Libertarianism and the Workplace.
* Via Bitter Laughter, Reddit explains ACA. Another great piece from Amanda Marcotte that shows how fact-free right-wing opposition to Obamacare has been allowed to be: Questions for Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney and Other Opponents of Health Care Reform: Where Are Your Facts?
* As Supreme Court Affirms Patchwork U.S. Healthcare System, Vermont Pushes Ahead with Single Payer.
* The truth is out there: U.S. government lies about the existence of mermaids.
* And sometimes Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal gets it all right. Happy Fourth of July.
Written by gerrycanavan
July 3, 2012 at 10:09 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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