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Thursday Links!
* Marquette makes Slate’s vaunted “ridiculous phrases universities have trademarked” list. Meanwhile, Danny Pudi’s Marquette-flavored entry in the 30 for 30 series is up at Grantland. Jesuit author...
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Tuesday, Tuesday
* The U.S. Cities Where the Poor Are Most Segregated From Everyone Else. Milwaukee, alas, is #1. * “Dr. Kissinger’s visit to campus will not be publicized, so we appreciate your confidentiality…” *...
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Monday Night Links!
* Dr. Nancy E. Snow, professor of philosophy in Marquette University’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of a $2.6 million grant that will fund interdisciplinary research on...
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Weekend Links!
* CFP: ASAP, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. * Real-life trolley problem: programming a self-driving car to decide what to aim at in the event of a crash. * As one of the first...
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Weekend Links!
* Call for applications: 2014—15 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. * So Paul Di Filippo really liked Green Planets. * Receive this petition in nomination of three candidates for MLA...
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Sunday Links for the Sunday Reader
* This president delivers compassion with a kind face and from a decorous and understated height. And that seems to be the role he prefers to play in the world too. It was doubtless the posture from...
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Thursday Links!
* Working Mom Arrested for Letting Her 9-Year-Old Play Alone at Park. Dad Charged With Child Endangerment After Son Skips Church To Go Play. This Widow’s 4 Kids Were Taken After She Left Them Home...
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Thursday Morning Links
* There’s Literally No Evidence That Restricting Where Sex Offenders Can Live Accomplishes Anything. The article goes on to suggest these kinds of laws may actually be worse than useless by increasing...
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Weekend Links!
* I liked this brief addendum to my academic job market as “game” piece from the other day. One thing I might add is that the game metaphor also helps us see the job market as something that could be...
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All the Weekend Links You’ll Ever Need
* Key Findings in Chapel Hill’s Academic-Fraud Investigation. I find the scale of this thing totally amazing; that the NCAA is still claiming it has no jurisdiction here is also amazing. It’ll be...
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Tuesday Night Links!
* Call for applications: The Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. * Happy birthday, OEB. * Coming soon at Marquette: “Barrel Rides and She-Elves: Audience and “Anticipation” in Peter Jackson’s...
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Weekend Links!
* But at least one line in the tax form gives pause: The college lost roughly $4-million in investment income compared with the previous year, for unknown reasons. That year the college posted a...
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Midweek Links!
* Another scene from the death of the university. * A postscript for Fun Home. * Someone Calculated How Many Adjunct Professors Are on Public Assistance, and the Number Is Startling. * Transforming...
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Wherein a Former Academic Blogger Emerges from Book Jail, Weary and...
* I had a short interview with the writing center journal Praxis go up this week: “Working Out What’s True and What Isn’t.” * Can Faculty Deal with Policy Drift? A List of Options. We know what...
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What Day Is It? Links
* Jaimee’s book was reviewed in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel last week. We spent the weekend in DC for her book launch and reading at the Folger, which was amazing. She just absolutely killed it. Buy...
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Thnksgvn Links
* Once again, this year as every year, we give thanks. * CFP: SFRA 2016, in Liverpool, UK. * The first space age was about politics. The second space age was about science. The third space age is about...
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Week-Old Links at Two-Weeks-Old-Link Prices
* The San Bernardino mystery. Disband MSNBC. The story of the first mass murder in U.S. history. From the archives: The Making of a Rampage Murderer: What the Brutal Life of Oakland Shooter One L. Goh...
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End of the Semester Fire Sale: Every Link Must Go
* Another galaxy is possible: Toshiro Mifune turned down Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader roles. * CFP: Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2016. * The Secret History of One Hundred Years of...
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Tuesday Links!
* CFP: Palgrave Macmillan’s Studies in Science and Popular Culture. * “If time is money, then sleep is theft.” * Life in the 21st Century, Part One: Reporters From Nevada’s Largest Newspaper Demand To...
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Weekend Links! Catch Them All!
* Americans first learn about slavery as children, before adults are willing to explain finance capital or rape. By high school, young adults are ready to hear about sexual violence as an element of...
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