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So Many Weekend Links!
I’ve been thinking all day about the “value of the humanities” and I really think it’s just that it’s good to know stuff.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 7, 2015
Is there serious case that the humanities advance job skills or informed citizenship? Maybe. But it’s really mostly just good to know stuff.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 7, 2015
#humanities RT @dg22727: @ayjay @gerrycanavan Well-worn, but: pic.twitter.com/l6YfmjGH7T
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 7, 2015
* I’ve seen this movie: Marquette working with firm to humanely manage seagulls.
* Best game I’ve played in a really long time: Rymdkapsel.
* The academic community has talked itself into a very strange corner with regards to adjunctification. “Respect” is just not a good rallying point: unquantifiable, unsatisfiable, turns political struggle into emotional one. The focus should stay on the system that produces adjunct jobs instead of full-time permanent ones.
* This report that administration and construction are not significant factors in rising tuition seems totally off to me. You’re dividing by different denominators in 2001 and 2011; that masks the magnitude of the change, but also hides new spending in real terms. The last student you add should be your cheapest student: all the infrastructure is in place, you’re just adding one more. But these numbers show the opposite trend: spending at colleges is increasing even given efficiencies gained by adding more students.
* ‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising.
* If you, like us, lusted after the art deco tiling and rose-colored lighting of the Grand Budapest Hotel lobby, or drooled over the yellow Parisian hotel room in Hotel Chevalier, here’s some enchanting news: Wes Anderson has designed a bar.
* NSA mass phone surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden ruled illegal.
* Andrew Cuomo, pretty corrupt.
* An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty.
* The Poverty Capitalism Creates.
* As investigation enters fifth month, Tamir Rice’s mother has moved into a homeless shelter. Online activists raised $60K for Tamir Rice’s family — so where did all that money go?
* If you want a vision of the future.
* The Secret Lives of Homeless Students.
* The Hater’s Guide To Avengers: Age of Ultron. Are you Over the Avengers Yet? Ultron Has Always Been a Dumb Character, and That’s Okay. Even Whedon isn’t into it.
* Leaked Email From Marvel CEO Is A Listicle About Why Women Can’t Be Superheroes.
* Reading the Black Captain America (both of them).
* Joss Whedon Didn’t Quit Twitter Because of All the Mean Feminists.
* In defense of the Mommy Track.
* Urban fiction, or street lit, has been snubbed by the publishing industry and scorned by black intellectuals. Yet these authors may just be the most successful literary couple in America.
* ‘Comedy Bang-Bang’s’ Scott Aukerman: From ‘Screwing Around’ to a Podcast Empire.
* Parents call cops on teen for giving away banned book; it backfires predictably.
* The Pink and Blue Projects: Exploring the Genderization of Color.
* I really liked TNI’s “Trash” issue, though it gets Oscar the Grouch all wrong.
* Did a study find men’s beards are filled with poop?
* We Accidentally Turned The Entire Statue Of Liberty Into A Battery.
* Halo Players Spent Five Years Trying To Get Into An Empty Room.
* I’m glad that Facebook is choosing to publish such findings, but I cannot but shake my head about how the real findings are buried, and irrelevant comparisons take up the conclusion.
* A comics Kickstarter some of you might be interested in: Bizarre New World.
* Lawmakers drop Walker’s plan to spin off UW governance.
* Art Institute of Wisconsin to stop enrolling new students.
* Remember when Gerber tried to market “baby food for teens?”
* What Was the Venus de Milo Doing With Her Arms?
* Joan Would Have Lost Her Sexual Harassment Suit Against McCann Erickson. Assholes of Mad Men’s McCann pay dividends for real-life McCann.
* Academic Freedom and Tenure: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
* Health Insurance Companies Are Illegally Charging for Birth Control.
* Report: Most College Football Concussions Happen in Practice.
* Nothing gold can stay be allowed to just be a good thing that happened one time.
* Essential Reading: “I Am Error” Brings New Insight to the History of the NES.
* From graduation to garbage job (literally): One twentysomething’s struggle.
* The source of strange radio signals that have left astronomers at Australia’s most famous radio telescope scratching their heads for 17 years has finally been discovered. It turns out that it was a microwave oven.
* “My father felt the U.S.S.R. treated him better than America,” said Tynes-Mensah, a former university chemistry instructor who was born in the Russian town of Krasnodar and now lives mainly in the United States, spending summers in Russia. “He was happy here.”
* How to lie with statistics, Nicholas Kristof edition.
* Portrait of a suicide at UPenn.
* You Oughta Know Dave Coulier Will Be On Fuller House.
* Woman Who Tweeted ‘2 Drunk 2 Care’ Before Fatal Crash Gets 24 Years.
* Galadriel, Witch-Queen of Lórien.
In “Let Us Now Praise Famous Orcs,” I suggested that the basic humanity of Tolkien’s inhuman creatures proved them to be more worthy of our sympathy than the elves, “whose near-perfection marks them with a profound otherness.” As immortals, elves are always playing a long game in which we finite beings cannot ever hope to be much more than pawns. The characters who seem most aware of this fact in The Lord of the Rings are, in fact, the orcs, as is tellingly revealed in the dialogue between Gorbag and Shagrat. They lament having to work for “Big Bosses,” remember the “bad old times” when elves besieged them, and make hopeful plans for a postwar future in which there are “no big bosses.” In their fear and loathing of aristocrats and high powers, these orcs express thoroughly modern, even vaguely democratic sentiments. The Witch-Queen of Lórien, much like the dark Lord of Mordor, champions a different social order entirely. I am not entirely sure that Galadriel’s vision for how the world system should be organized is necessarily the better one. For those of us who are in favor of changing the world, Galadriel and her coterie of hereditary aristocrats represent the enemy, a power to be overcome, and her “long defeat” cannot come soon enough.
* The Magicians is coming to SyFy.
* Sheriffs Threaten Retaliation If The Price Of Prisoner Phone Calls Is Regulated.
* Starving the beast: The UNC system in 2015.
* Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness.
* Meet the original patent troll.
* The vanishing of Molly Norris.
* Empty, Lonely Nothingness. Forever: Understanding the Fermi Paradox.
* A Cancer Survivor Designs the Cards She Wishes She’d Received From Friends and Family.
* Get my checkbook! Original drawings depicting iconic Martians from HG Wells’s sci-fi masterpiece The War of the Worlds are on sale for £350,000.
* Edit of the Day: Footloose Without the Music Turns Kevin Bacon Into a Maniac.
* Deleted Scenes of Women in Disaster Movies Written by Men.
* Get me Thomas Pynchon: Aide to Kamala Harris arrested for pretending to run 3,000-year-old rogue police force.
* Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot.
* Fracking Chemicals Detected in Pennsylvania Drinking Water. More North Carolina Residents Warned Of Contaminated Drinking Water. Horribly bleak study sees ‘empty landscape’ as large herbivores vanish at startling rate. A future without chocolate.
* Only the super-rich can save us now.
* McDonald’s to reverse declining sales with more attractive Hamburglar.
* These Suburban Preppers Are Ready for Anything.
* Bill Clinton has an exciting new greatest regret of his presidency.
* Someone made Game of Thrones into a Google map, and it’s amazing.
* Native Americans Say This Man Enslaved Them. Pope Francis Wants To Call Him A Saint.
* Which President Greenlit A Trip To The Center Of The Earth?
* And a dark, gritty Sliders I wish had gone to series: Parallels. By one of the creators of The Lost Room, which I also wish had gone to series!
Written by gerrycanavan
May 8, 2015 at 8:08 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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