From Inside Higher Ed: An Enthusiast’s View of Academic Blogs A Skeptic’s Take on Academic Blogs Similar:Making the Switch to GMail Our wonderful IT folks have set up a…CybercultureThat gut-wrenching photo of immigrant children in a cage? First published in 2014.Don’t blame “the media” for using this p…CultureNew Handout on Surviving Group Projects in CollegeI…
Spit & Polish: When this game was first released in 1880 it was so hugely popular in taverns and inns that the bank of England was forced to mint more threepenny bits to keep up with demand. Gotta love the mustaches and bowler hats. Similar:NASA Just Found a Lost SpacecraftIf movies about space have taught…
Anthony Grafton, in The New Yorker The hype and rhetoric make it hard to grasp what Google and Microsoft and their partner libraries are actually doing. We have clearly reached a new point in the history of text production. On many fronts, traditional periodicals and books are making way for blogs and other electronic formats.…
In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jonathan D. Silver waxes poetic: Where do all the pumpkins go, post Halloween’s big costume show? Are they left to rot and molder, as the weather trends ever colder? Or is there some more organized scheme, to dispose of leftovers that aren’t the crop’s cream? Wherefore do they, might they go?…
Jessica Mintz writes of University of Washington-Bothell professor Martha Groom’s Wikipedia assignment: “I would find these things on Wikipedia,” she said, and would think, “Gosh, this is awfully thin here. I wonder if my students could fill this in?” Wikipedia has been vilified as a petri dish for misinformation, and the variable accuracy of its…
Kate Luce Angell writes an entertaining feature on my next-door officemate and his work in Seton Hill’s Writing Popular Fiction MA program. Award-winning author and Seton Hill University professor Michael Arnzen demonstrates that in horror, as in life, it’s often the little things that matter most. Take his short-short piece “Nightmare Job #3,” which begins…