Posts Tagged ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 3’
*More* Weekend Links? Can It Be?
* Jaimee’s amazing first book has a preorder page at Amazon. Book launches in October! See her webpage for some of her online poems in the meantime!
* The entire natural world is celebrating this event. Dolphins are riding whales off the coast of Hawaii.
* The latest at Marquette’s Haggerty Museum of Art yet.
* Keywords for the Age of Austerity 21 / Wednesday Night Fights: “Equity” vs. “equality.” Two words enter! One word leaves!
* Are universities in wealthy nations exploiting researchers from developing countries, treating them mainly as data gatherers instead of respected colleagues? And, wielding all the money and the clout, do Western academics fail to engage with their counterparts in emerging nations as true partners in the research collaborations?
* In the intensifying debate over whether to reduce federal government regulations on universities and colleges, one number has been at the forefront: $150 million. That’s what Vanderbilt University says a study found it spends each year complying with government red tape: 11 percent of the university’s entire budget.
* A University Without Shared Governance is Not a University.
* U. of Wisconsin Professor’s Tweets Draw Criticism From Her Own Colleagues. Another social media trainwreck for academia.
* From Open Humanities Press: Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies.
* Millennials Who Are Thriving Financially Have One Thing in Common.
* ‘Streets of Old Milwaukee’ to close for reimagining, sensory upgrade.
* Confessions of an Executioner.
* The Judy Greer effect: Why a ridiculously talented actress gets stuck with so many thankless roles.
* Watching ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’ In The Era Of Mass Incarceration.
* One man’s journey from Sesame Street to the heart of truther collage art.
* Age at First Marriage and Divorce Risk.
* I know it usually seems like we’re living in the darkest timeline, but we need to remember every day that somehow we got spared The Amazing Spider-Man 3.
* Episode five of Telltale’s Game of Thrones arrives next week.
* Probably not a good sign — though I think I’m most upset that they made the robot so apologetic.
* xkcd reads sports rulebooks like I read sports rulebooks.
* Over a decade ago, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow laid the foundations for today’s effects-driven blockbusters. Why haven’t its creators made a film since?
* And warming of oceans due to climate change is unstoppable, say US scientists. Have a good weekend, everyone!
Written by gerrycanavan
July 17, 2015 at 9:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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