Skillful propagandists always leverage people’s pre-conceived notions to steer the conversation away from what is prejudicial to their side’s interests. The tactic works because it often deflects attention towards other injustices that are also real, making it easy to elicit a strong emotional response that blinds the audience to the underlying cynicism. Redfish, for example,…
The problem isn’t Shakespeare—it’s how he’s been taught. […] Since Shakespeare’s work is “not of an age but for all time,” as Ben Jonson famously put it, I suggest that you get over your Bardophobia and embrace your inner Bardolator. Trust me, it’s worth it. First, you need to relax. You’re not stupid. You’re not…
I really enjoyed seeing the first workshop performance of SHU alum Greg Kerestan’s original horror-comedy musical, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” based on the classic 1920 German expressionist silent film. The music is powerful, and the cast is hilarious and creepy, in all the right proportions. The daughter plays a ballet mistress socialite (and…
Similar:If in question, have more GOOD than BAD? University of Georgia Student Journalists Walk Ou…My students and colleagues sometimes won…AcademiaPompeii artifacts at the Carnegie Science Center The lighting was very low, so the phot…AestheticsMore than a million people die on roads every year. Meet the man determined to prevent the… Imagine a society that engineers…
In the Constitution, any suspect is innocent until found guilty by a court, even suspects who kneel for eight minutes on the throat of an unarmed, handcuffed person who is caught on video pleading to breathe, passing out, and dying. If the court hasn’t (yet) ruled that a death is homicide, then it’s not accurate…
Similar:Prime Stage Theatre to end 2018-2019 season with Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night, May 3–1…2019 Pittsburgh Public Theater Shakespea…CultureMy 4Cs StoryI chaired a session on Friday, and gave …AcademiaThe Naked Now (Season 1, Episode 2: ST:TNG Rewatch) When a script that blows chunks makes …With a large ensemble, we saw many scene…CultureFantasticks (Theatre Factory, Oct 18-27) …
Rewatching ST:TNG After Worf loses a photon torpedo. Picard takes Data with him on a three-day shuttle jaunt to find it. I realize so far that probably sounds like a joke, but it’s accurate. They return to find the Enterprise-D adrift, and the corridors filled with animal noises. (I was listening with headphones, and the…
Interesting introduction to the history of musical annotation and copyright. The journey to that sheet music copyright began with Greek and Roman grammarians; they had developed signs to guide declamation (high voice, low voice and falling voice). Musicians adapted those signs to “[indicate] the contour of a melody.” This provided “a memory aid to singers who knew words and melody by heart.” In the…
Similar:This is about half of the #steampunk control panel details I've created in the past m…AestheticsTook the whole day off and spent part of it making #greebles with #Blender3D because reaso…AestheticsScratch 3.0 beta is available. Try out the text-to-speech blocks!PersonalFirst page of a student’s Texture project. (This made me laugh.) This clever freshman writing student…AcademiaI’m…
Similar:Happy Easter!PersonalIt's Friday night in July, and I'm jamming with my fall course preps.The dean sends me an email at 9:07pm. In…AcademiaI baked about 12 million vertices of steampunk control panel geometry into a flat plane wi…PersonalHappy memories of PC games I played with my son (now 19) sitting on my lap.While doing some spring…
Rewatching ST:TNG An agitated engineer is poised to leap inside a warp nacelle’s plasma stream. He tells Riker “they laughed at me,” and jumps. Picard wants to know what happened so he can break the news to Lt. Kwan’s parents. Data tells LaForge he had great difficulties after he initially became sentient, and considered resetting…
Source: The dangers of short form content – The Woke Salaryman: Similar:Facebook Updates its Fight Against Fake NewsThe only reason Facebook is paying atten…BusinessMultimodal Composition: Every time a student submits a narrated PowerPoint, a puppy cries.AcademiaIt's been a Dwarf Fortress afternoon. AwesomeMicrosoft is once again asking Chrome users to try Bing through unblockable pop-ups If…
Rewatching ST:TNG Masks (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 17) Ritual symbols start appearing on the ship and mythological figures inhabit Data’s personality. This script is a mess. The comic opening is good. During an art class in the children’s center, Troi encourages Data to explore his imagination, but his sculptures are comically literal. The…
An interview means a real-time give-and take, not a list of questions you email. Most people worth interviewing are too busy to write out their answers to help you meet your deadline. If you can’t meet in person, ask if your source will do a videoconference, or even (if they’re the right generation) an old-fashioned phone call. (Gasp!)
Hoarding disorder — a mental health condition in which people have trouble getting rid of possessions because of a perceived need to save them — affects about 2.6 percent of people worldwide, according to the American Psychiatric Association. There are higher rates in those over 60 and people who have other psychiatric problems, such as anxiety…
Rewatching ST:TNG In the captain’s chair on a night watch, Dr. Crusher tells Troi why she likes being in command. Troi then tells Riker she’d like to take the bridge command test, too. Data has been collecting radioactive metal from a remote site on an inhabited planet, but something has clearly gone wrong, because he…
Similar:Merchant of Venice Part 2 live, now! #PPTPlaytimeDramaSlow flyby of a scout shop. Starfield backdrop; particle-based engine exhaust; hull uses a…More progress as I continue to level up …AestheticsDr Jerz I think your microphone glitchedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPqnXF7A…AcademiaCan't upload photos to Facebook from my MacBookI spent 30 minutes trying to upload abou…CybercultureToday's 10 sq cm of #blender3d #steampunk…
This is the overall traffic to my website. The spike was driven by a burst of visits to this one page. Similar:My daughter who sometimes does things will be singing & swinging August 16 – 25 with @fron…My daughter who sometimes does things wi…CultureFaculty lining up for #SetonHill's "Go Orientation" — new ceremony hands students…
Rewatching ST:TNG As Riker and Troi discuss crew evaluation reports in Ten Forward, we spend time with four junior officers who would normally get a few lines each. We already know Nurse Ogawa and Ensign Sito (one of the cadets who obstructed an investigation in s5e13 “The First Duty“). Lavelle is a square-jawed Dudley Do-Right…
Similar:Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience?Because all of my Seton Hill students ge…AcademiaKLINGON STYLE (Star Trek Parody of PSY – GANGNAM STYLE)Silly fun, just in time for the 25th ann…AestheticsWinky Winky Drudge ReportThe Drudge Report today features an amus…AmusingAnti-globalism Is Common Factor in Social Media Conspiracy Theories, says UW ProfFascinating academic effort to…