Month: January 2014

TSA Agent Confession

It was May 2007. I was living with a bohemian set on Chicago’s north side, a crowd ranging from Foucault-fixated…

10 years ago

Replaying Childhood: On Gifting my Video Games to the Library of Congress

Tevor Owens writes: Giving up my games ended up being a bit of an emotional experience. I think the emotion…

10 years ago

Alice in Quantumland: A Charming Illustrated Allegory of Quantum Mechanics by a CERN Physicist

Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics is absolutely fantastic in its entirety, certain to engage the simultaneous states…

10 years ago

On teaching coding to English studies students

Because this is a practical, hands-on, interdisciplinary class, the students all need to be on roughly the same page early…

10 years ago

International Studies Association proposes to bar editors from blogging

“I think it’s a really strange proposal in 2014,” said Stephen M. Saideman, a professor at Carleton University in Canada…

10 years ago

Space Shuttle Challenger (Destroyed 28 Years Ago Today)

I was in my final semester of high school. I remember Principal Burch came over the loudspeaker to announce that…

10 years ago

No Black Holes Exist, Says Stephen Hawking—At Least Not Like We Think

Black holes do not exist—at least, not as we know them, says renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, potentially provoking a rethink…

10 years ago

School ditches rules and loses bullies

Swanson School signed up to the study by AUT and Otago University just over two years ago, with the aim…

10 years ago

I sometimes snark at the @Turnitin interface, but…

I sometimes snark at the @Turnitin interface, but I love the new ability to tie comments to rubric items. Well…

10 years ago

Should the AP Really Have Fired This Pulitzer-Prize War Photographer?

The original shot caught a Syrian rebel fighter moving from his position, his AK-47 in hand. It also showed something…

10 years ago

RT @PhilKomarny: A floppy disc… In #context htt…

RT @PhilKomarny: A floppy disc... In #context http://t.co/5HjNls404X

10 years ago

@MichaelSimsBook @mkonnikova “When a blogger uses…

@MichaelSimsBook @mkonnikova "When a blogger uses hyperbole while recommending an article on viral media, you won't believe what happens!"

10 years ago

The Six Things That Make Stories Go Viral Will Amaze, and Maybe Infuriate, You

Overblown Headline of New Yorker Article on Memes Will Amaze, and Maybe Infuriate, You In 350 B.C., Aristotle was already…

10 years ago

Not Bad for an English Major

I didn't have much choice when it came to picking a background for some publicity shots for Stage Right's production…

10 years ago

Trees (an “Interpretive Travesty”)

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast, Can hardly look at God all day,…

10 years ago

The Rise of Curiosity Journalism

Katz and his kindred might just as well call themselves “curiosity journalists.” Curiosities draw the most attention when the story…

10 years ago

Where Professors Send Their Children to College

To understand this story, you have to keep in mind the distinction between a large research--oriented university (where professors teach…

10 years ago

Code is not literature

A literate programmer describes his attempts to get fellow programmers to "read" code the way writers read literature. (He concludes…

10 years ago