I recently spoke with the Sarah Sutton, General Manager of the Walmart on Victory Boulevard, and she’d like me to express to you all that while she’s still willing to permit any adjunct faculty members in need of shelter to sleep in the loading bay behind the store, trapping and consuming the seagulls that flock…
Similar:John Oliver Returns to Out-News the News—by Ignoring TrumpI prefer reading and listening to the ne…CultureSeton Hill students Emily Vohs, Elizabeth Burns, Jake Carnahan-Curcio and Carolyn Jerz in …Seton Hill students Emily Vohs, Elizabet…AcademiaMedia Bias Chart version 10 — Left / Center / Right; Fact vs Fabrication; (Ad Fontes Medi…The very useful “media bias chart”…
Similar:No, this pie chart does not mean that anyone at CNBC believes the typical 25 year old earn…Tell me you didn’t click the link withou…BusinessThe Mom From The Cat in the Hat Finally SpeaksAs a toddler, my son once methodically s…AmusingAffect (v. "to change") vs. Effect (n. "the result")I ran into this problem several times…
RCA’s console never rivaled the impact of Atari’s VCS, Magnavox’s Odyssey, or Mattel’s Intellivision, and few people remember it today. But the true story behind it is fascinating. Its underlying technology began in 1969 as a personal computer developed at home by one man with a vision, Joseph Weisbecker. His daughter, Joyce, ended up being…
Similar:When you accidentally send a "Dear Satan" letter.My family and I are in the voice cast of…PersonalI really enjoyed powering through Wilson’s Century Cycle during winter term.AwesomeIt's a thing to do.PersonalMerry Christmas 2022.PersonalAnother 10sq cm section of a #neovictorian control panel for a personal #blender3D #steamp…AestheticsPerspective | After a stunning news conference, there’s a newly…
Today’s class on The Winter’s Tale was very much the kind of class that I hoped for when I was an undergraduate thinking, “Maybe I’d like to be an English professor.” Leontes and Polyxines in “The Winter’s Tale” grew up together, but for no good reason other than it sets the plot in motion, Leontes…
By the time you finish reading this article, the upstart sports news outlet called The Athletic probably will have hired another well-known sportswriter from your local newspaper. In a couple of years, once The Athletic has completed its breakneck expansion, perhaps that newspaper’s sports section will no longer exist. —The New York Times Similar:The Writer…
Similar:The School of Humanities honors me and my colleagues @mikearnzen and Dan Martino as we com…The School of Humanities honors me and m…PersonalDesk blotters, with procedural leather and wood materials by Blendermada. #blender3dAestheticsAnother 10sq cm section of a #neovictorian control panel for a personal #blender3D #steamp…AestheticsThis time of year I trust the process. Students…
Similar:Enjoy the showmanship as a 94yo woman performs in a dance competition.https://youtu.be/8LOdmka4_90AestheticsIs Breakfast Necessary?The idea that early eating is essential …BusinessExcited for Annette Vee’s visit. My journalism students have to submit a story by midnight…PersonalFire Chief Grants Fireman 3-Day Extension On Difficult Fire Shortly before leaving work Monday, …AmusingStage Right's Alice in WonderlandMy daughter shared…
Saving this for next term’s “History and Future of the Book” course. Students said they preferred and performed better when reading on screens. But their actual performance tended to suffer. For example, from our review of research done since 1992, we found that students were able to better comprehend information in print for texts that were…
Updated an older instructional handout with a bunch of new examples and some fancy red/green color coding. To write a news story, you’ll use many of the skills that help you write good personal essays; however, the two kinds of writing have important differences, so what counts as “good writing” is also different. English Essay:…
Dinosaurs evolved into birds. Not all of them, of course. Birds are so much a part of our environment that we barely notice them. I’ve said the same about weblogs. Monetized and platformized and app-ified, the basic functions of blogging live on — a reverse-sorted stream of posts, a mechanism to engage with visitors to…
Similar:My simulation project does not require me to master medieval daub and wattle architecture….My simulation project does not require m…AestheticsLooking forward to Part 2 of #PPTPlaytime’s production “The Rivals” (live… now!)CultureWest Side Story (Aug 9-12) #somethingscomingCultureWe're enjoying the intensity and also the (surprisingly appropriate) humor.PersonalSold out closing performance. Support the arts in your community!Sold out…
Russian trolls posing as Americans made payments to genuine activists in the US to help fund protest movements on socially divisive issues, according to a new investigation by a respected Russian media outlet. On Tuesday, the newspaper RBC published a major investigation into the work of a so-called Russian “troll factory” since 2015, including during…
I reminded my Shakespeare students that I’m a full-time generalist and a part-time Shakespeare professor, and that I’m constantly comparing my own classroom performance with the brilliant well-planned lectures my professors delivered to classes of 100 or 400 students.
Journalists prefer the neutral “said” to attribute a source’s statements, opinions, and emotions. Using “claimed” generates doubt. Using “explained” confers trust. Flowery alternatives compete with the unbiased reporting of facts.
Similar:Mary Rodgers, Composer of Once Upon a Mattress and Daughter of Broadway Royalty, Dies at 8…Mary Rodgers, composer of Once Upon a Ma…CultureMedia Bias Chart 8.0 (Left vs. Right; Fact vs. Propaganda; Complex vs. Clickbait; Idle Cha…From AdFontes Media. If you never…CultureTell-all crime reporting is a peculiarly American practice. Now U.S. news outlets are…
Sometimes when I find myself putting more than a usual amount of creativity into a comment on a student paper, I take a break from churning through papers to make another meme.
With Dr. Simon Van Gelder in Dagger of the Mind the Horta in Devil in the Dark; mirror Spock melds with McCoy in Mirror Mirror with Nomad the floating space probe in The Changeling. Kinda sorta with random guard (remotely projects the vague idea that the prisoners have escaped, so not really a meld) in……
There are two things you need any time you are stuck in writing. You need to set the course and steady the course. If you are stuck while writing a literature review, then each of these things– set the course and steady the course– have particular ways in which you can do them easily, and…