Similar:Is Breakfast Necessary?The idea that early eating is essential …BusinessIn January, 2002 I was blogging about… A 20-something former CEO takes a fa…BooksLLM error rates I worked on LLMs, and now I go…AcademiaMedia Bias Chart version 11, Aug 2023 — Journalism sorted by bias (Left / Center / Right),…Whether a source is biased towards the…
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:AP reporter’s mistake: Did the punishment fit the crime? Reporters have been sometimes fired …EthicsScience Fair VictoryIn this photo from the front page of tod…ArtEach of these #retro #neovictorian #steampunk control panels takes me about an hour. #gree…AestheticsCarolyn appears as homeschooled teenager "Carolyn." Free holiday show Tuesday at 7. PersonalRandom sibling selfie.PersonalTell Me a Smart Story:…
Similar:Progress (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 15) Kira befriends a stubborn squatterRewatching ST:DS9 Dax and Kira are ch…CultureHide and Q (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 9) Riker, buffed up by Q, grants desires of the…Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…AmusingDr. Bobby Teaches Ferris Bueller as RhetorMy former student, Bobby Kuechenmeister,…AcademiaJournalism 101: I fixed…
Similar:Prosecutor praises newspaper that exposed doctor's abuseIsn’t the news pointless and boring? Hav…CultureStudent journalists assemble! The Setonian club fair table is looking spiffy.PersonalLooking forward in the back room of the officers' pub, in the #steampunk cruiser from…AestheticsHey there, chaotic world in academia and beyond, could you settle down just a bit so I can…Academia"Why are…
Vinnie Tresco, Carolyn Jerz, Matthew Hommel, and Kathryn Pretz are in the cast of this playful, intense & inspiring musical. Similar:How To Escape The Procrastination Doom LoopInstead of being lazy or disorganized, p…CultureI apologize for this one. R2-D2 stars in Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical CATS.PersonalPoetry Stimulates the Brain's Reward-Anticipation Arousal Near Ends of StanzasI fixed…
Similar:Creative writing majors getting rich as demand skyrocketsSee, it’s funny, because poets need to s…AmusingNovel defined: a term used by some students to mean “any text we study in English class”AcademiaWhat’s Lost as Handwriting FadesWhen I used a Windows XP Tablet computer…CultureOverflow seating for the 50th anniversary of the canonization of #elizabethannseton @seton…PersonalThe bots are…
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:Fatal Encounters: One man is tracking every officer-involved killing in the U.S.Most cops don’t kill the people they’re …CultureResources for combating…
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:Fanciful Fun in Theatre Factory’s “The Fantasticks”A great review from Pittsburgh in the Ro…CultureMy 10yo Launches a Soda Bottle Rocket http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbNu8…AestheticsPreteen Acting Scene Version 2 – YouTubeI had a free evening and a copy of Blend…DramaStandardized Test Scores Don't Really Measure LearningThere are ways to raise a child’s test s…AcademiaThese chairs were cheap, but…
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:Why typewriters beat computersThe BBC offers a pleasant bit of retroph…AestheticsScholars' unconvincing case about the value of the humanities (essay)A literary work is a powerful tool…
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:The Shape of the World, According to Old Mapshttps://www.visualcapitalist.com/shape-o…AestheticsActors can't play Hamlet as simply mad in world of mental health awareness, actor saysHow does our 21st century understanding …CultureThe girl sank her brother's last ship with the homophonous cry "I-1."AmusingLiberal arts college professor assaults alt-right group memberCarefully choosing language that fits yo…AcademiaThe Best of Both…
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…