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Tuesday Mo(u)rning Links
* Utopian for Beginners: An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented. * Uncomfortable metaphor watch: The two spacecraft, Ebb and Flow, have been orbiting the Moon since their launch...
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Unexpected Boxing Day Links!
My baby’s selfish decision to start vomiting ruined my plans to finally see The Hobbit. So instead I’ll clear some tabs: * If you want a vision of the future, imagine me and @adamkotsko arguing about...
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Monday Night Links
* Bernard Pollard doesn’t think the NFL will exist in 30 years… because it’s just becoming too darn safe. * Wisconsin officials tout the UW Flexible Option as the first to offer multiple,...
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Thursday Night Links
* I saw this movie: Brains of rats connected allowing them to share information via internet. * It bears repeating: The candidate’s adviser sent us a letter on which both “department of history” and...
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No Hope
Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years. Recent Heat Spike Like Nothing in 11,000 Years. For the first time ever, China overtook the US as the world’s leading oil importer.
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This Was the Moment When the Rise of the Oceans Began to Slow and Our Planet...
Obama administration signals it will approve the Keystone XL pipeline while rolling back carbon rules for new power plants.
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Thursday Night Links: Neoliberalism, The University in Ruins, Is the Pope...
* CFP: Ecology and the Environmental Humanities symposium at Rice University. * Rather than enlarge the moral imagination and critical capacities of students, too many universities are now wedded to...
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Lots of Monday Links But In My Defense They Are All Fascinating
* Margaret Thatcher dies. Glenn Greenwald on speaking ill of the dead. We’re still living in Thatcher’s world. We Are All Thatcherites Now. “If I reported to you what Mrs. Thatcher really thought about...
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400 PPM
Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere Hits 400 PPM for First Time in Human History. From the New York Times writeup: “It feels like the inevitable march toward disaster,” said Maureen E. Raymo, a Columbia...
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Friday Night Links
* Thickness of the ice sheets at various locations 21,000 years ago compared with modern skylines. * Ian Bogost has a great piece on MOOCs in an otherwise totally skippable LARoB feature on the...
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Monday!
* Pacific Rim washes up third as sequels dominate. As someone said to me on Twitter last night, this is why we can’t have nice things. * Meat industry doesn’t want to tell you where your meat comes...
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Six More for Monday Night
* Breaking Bad, That Phone Call, and Bad Fans. But what was truly fascinating about that phone call was that if it was trolling the Bad Fan, it was also trolling me: the sort of feminist-minded sucker...
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Supersized Post-Computer-Crash Weekend Feel-Good Happy Links
Sorry I’ve been MIA. John Siracusa’s OS Mavericks review didn’t tell me the update would completely nuke my computer for three days. Fairly big omission, JS. * Only by the grace of God did I not wind...
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MLA’s Eve
* Timeline of the future: 1,000 years time to one hundred quintillion years. * Link of the year: Teju Cole Wrote a Short Story on Twitter by Retweeting Others. * How Grad Students Built the MLA...
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Sunday MLA Hangover Links
* Horrors and horrors: Missouri prosecutors say they are unable to bring rape charges in the brutal Maryville case, though one of the boys involved will be charged for abandoning the 14-year-old to die...
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Cloudy with a Chance of Apocalypse Links
* CFPs for MLA 2015 from the discussion group for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and utopian literature: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture (guaranteed session) and From Siberia to...
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gerrycanavan.com Is Pleased to Offer This Sunday Reading Experience
* The schedule for the final third of my Cultural Preservation course. This has been one of the best teaching experiences I’ve ever had; I’m hoping things go as well next spring when I do it all again....
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Almost Too Many Thursday Links, Really, If You Ask Me
* Extrapolation is seeking essays for a special issue on Indigenous Futurism, edited by Grace L. Dillon, Michael Levy and John Rieder. * Designing for The Grand Budapest Hotel. * No state worse than...
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Today Is Tuesday!
* Gasp. * Worker’s Comp Lessons From an Injured Adjunct. * Progressive nonprofits that don’t pay their interns. * At the beginning of April, one of the most important labor unions in U.S. higher...
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