Similar:The Pointlessness of UnpluggingWhat sex was for the Puritans, technolog…Current_EventsNotes on watching "Aliens" for the first time again, with a bunch of kids”This movie has so many cliches in it,” …CultureFacebook’s Instant Articles restore subscription options they previously strippedThe ability to serve content faster than…BusinessThe cultural implications of the myth that English majors end up…
It can be scary outside the box. A university is a box that people choose to enter. It can be scary in there, too. I don’t feel like I’m doing my job as a professor if I don’t make students feel at least a little uncomfortable. The ultimate aim, it seems, is to turn campuses…
Dani Girl (Geyer Performing Arts Center, Oct 1-3, 2015) When Dani, a precocious nine year old, loses her hair to leukemia, she embarks on a magical journey to get it back. Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, Dani Girl is a tale of life in the face of death, hope in the face of despair, and the…
MACBETH: Okay, but thou wast still born, right?
MACDUFF: No. Untimely ripped.
MACBETH: Okay, but after thou wast ripped, thou wast of woman born.
MACDUFF: I don’t know…
MACBETH: Wast thou ripped from a man?
MACDUFF: No…
MACBETH: Then thou wast of woman born, what’s the problem?
MACDUFF: I think, technically, to be “born” you need to pass through the birth canal.
Similar:My Kids Are Shatner Than MostI passed along to my geeklings an apprec…DramaToasting Shakespeare at the Bard's Birthday BashOrganized by Pittsburgh Shakespeare in t…CultureMinimalist Graphic Interpretations of Philosophical Concepts — Prints by Genis Carreras …Art Prints by Genis Carreras | Society6….AestheticsAfter your shift at the protocol station, join me in the officers' lounge, just up…
Similar:Lie to Me: Fiction in the Post-Truth EraI’m trying to remember what it was like,…BooksProfessor Sees Parallels Between Things, Other Things”By drawing parallels between things and…AcademiaYounger friends, can you write or read cursive? I’m curious.CultureNational Day on WritingNCTE, the National Writing Project, and …CultureThe Mere Presence of Your Smartphone Reduces Brain Power, Study Shows The…
Similar:Short Stories: Developing Ideas for Short FictionI just supervised a teaching demonstrati…EducationIowa Reporter Found Not Guilty By Jury After Arrest At Black Lives Matter ProtestJustice for a brave reporter arrested fo…AwesomeI'm not tired of @shu.pippin yet! Final performance is sold out.PersonalKids Whose Parents Limit Screen Time Do Worse in College, New Study Shows “Parents normally…
Vinnie Tresco, Carolyn Jerz, Matthew Hommel, and Kathryn Pretz are in the cast of this playful, intense & inspiring musical. Similar:12 Mistakes Nearly Everyone Who Writes About Grammar Mistakes MakesDescriptive grammarians rejoice. Formal…Culture4 Skills to Help You Stand Out In Any Job InterviewAn employer will never ask you to write …BusinessStarting my “Writing about Literature”…
Similar:A professor examines why her students seem to act so helpless (essay)This essay on college students acting he…AcademiaEncounter at Farpoint (Season 1, Episode 1: ST:TNG Rewatch) Picard gathers his crew, hates…Rewatching ST:TNG after almost 20 years….CultureLintels and chimneys for low-poly buildings in a #medievaltheater simulation project. #mys…Lintels and chimneys for low-poly buildi…PersonalSparklecleaver the PonyswordCorrections -…
Nick Bain, 17, was in class one day when he calculated that only “2 1/2 to three hours” was actually useful instruction. So he decided to go out on his own to learn. —NPR Similar:Student journalist experiences the 'trickle down' of hostility toward the pressMy own students haven’t described encoun…AcademiaHelp! I may be running out…
In school, we expect our professors to answer our questions, to return our emails, to invite us in for a consultation, to pay attention what we say and read carefully what we write. One of the important lessons of being a student journalist is learning how to deal with the unexpected. Unfair things happen in…
On a shelf in the slanty room under the stairs, next to her college textbooks, my mother kept a stash of inexpensive Peanuts paperbacks — dozens of them, which reprinted the newspaper strips, perhaps on a yearly basis, maybe more frequently. I spent many a summer afternoon reading through those books, and I remember sorting…
Similar:The last submissions of this o'er ripe term, Ungraded, mock me though this app. And thus,…AcademiaUpdating a villain's lair in #Blender3D. Still a work in progress.AestheticsNot attempting historical accuracy but still had to learn a heck of a lot to model the ste… Later I need to add spokes to those …DesignVisiting Ft Ligonier…
My laptop drive is full & my comfort-food shelf is empty; however, that package slip was for a new external hard drive and a case of Clif Bars. #winning! Similar:Non-Euclidean Doom, where the value of pi is not 3.14159Weirdly beautiful. Wonderful bit of game…CybercultureStar Trek Beyond was an enjoyable nerdy family outing.PersonalDuring World War II,…
Last week, I had a hardware emergency. A kid in a small-town hardware store spent about 15 minutes helping me find the right nut. I had the troublesome part with me, and used a vise on their worktable and their wrench to twist it in place. The nut cost 50 cents. I asked the kid if…
Similar:Live theater. August Wilson's Jitney, in the back yard of the August Wilson House.PersonalDestiny (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 15) An ancient prophecy tests Kira’s fa…Rewatching ST:DS9 The station prepares …CultureThe Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading Random House, which jacked up its eboo…BooksMidterm Grades Submitted.AcademiaIt’s something to do.PersonalOne Teacher’s Brilliant…
The trick is that most people think they are getting a good deal out of Facebook; we think of Facebook to be “free,” and, as marketing professors explain, “consumers overreact to free.” Most people don’t feel like they are actually paying when the payment is personal data and when there is no specific sensation of…
3,486 words, 120 links, 57 lexias, and currently this is the only ending.
Social media services have put writing tools into the hands of people who probably don’t think of themselves as writers, but there they are, captioning photos and picking hashtags and maybe even pausing just a few seconds to edit before they hit “post.” This radio interview offers a good, informal overview of why people who…
I’ve been fascinated by the rhetoric of headlines surrounding the “Sesame Street moves to HBO” story. * HBO gentrifies ‘Sesame Street’ –VentureBeat * Sesame Street Episodes Will Shrink to Half an Hour –Time * Sesame Street Is Heading to HBO, and Getting Even Bigger –Esquire * This episode of Sesame Street brought to you by…