According to the Internet Archive, this is a story NPR posted at 9:33 this morning. As events developed, and the story changed, NPR updated this page — drastically. As you can see, the headline and the picture are different; though the date the page was first created is still there, the page now also includes…
Similar:POV: You are coding the automatic doors on your fantasy neovictorian cruiser personal proj… POV: You are coding th…AestheticsThe Library Adjacent to My Ethership Control Room Needed BooksFor me, summer vacation means spending h…AestheticsA serious summer activity.Once classes start again, we will all ha…CultureSecurity is Sleeping in the Back Seat of the CarFor decades, my…
Similar:Student journalists assemble! The Setonian club fair table is looking spiffy.PersonalPreppers for the win. Kinda.The euphoria of getting my grades in Fri…Personal5 Fun Ways to Help Your Kids Learn Math OnlineMy son has finally found a math textbook…CybercultureThe lighting doesn't really convey that this is supposed to be a slightly curved scroll of…AestheticsI made some…
I noticed this meme a few days ago. I recognized the “friend of a friend who has insider knowledge” formula that makes people want to share a memes. I know better than to trust anonymous online sources that claim to have special knowledge, so I just re-read what the CDC says and moved on. Here…
Note that the URL of this story indicates it was initially published under the title “Cowards Are Destroying the GOP.” Opinion stories that take a clear stand are a valuable part of legitimate news coverage, though of course they need to be well sourced, and a good editor will seek a balance that reflects a…
Similar:Congo nun overcomes blackouts with homemade hydroelectric plantSister Alphonsine Ciza spends most of he…Current_EventsBusy with Midterm GradesPosted midterm grades for the most labor…AcademiaThe Pope's Prayer for Countering "Fake News"Today is the feast of St. Francis de Sal…CultureProud of My JournosI saw several heads that I recognized, b…AcademiaBrian Williams is Giving NBC an Opportunity to Bravely…
Rewatching ST:TNG LaForge is surprised when he learns the starship designer he had previously become infatuated with via the holodeck (s3e6 “Booby Trap”) is nothing like the romantic possibility he expected. (I turned the episode off during the cringeworthy dinner scene, and didn’t come back to it for almost a week.) The story unfolds like…
Those darn founders with their darned respect for the free press. So biased! I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors:…
The anti-maskers are right when they say masks aren’t 100% effective. The pro-face-touchers are right when they say not touching your face isn’t enough. The bar-hoppers and close-talkers and eaters-in-crowded-diners are right when they say social distancing alone won’t stop the spread of a pandemic. The “98.2% survival rate” crowd is right that most people…
Similar:I'm honestly not sure where that came from.For my summer project, teaching myself t…AestheticsThe chief engineer does not know where the floating lamps are coming from, but he looks gr…AestheticsMy college writing students are out making short videos responding to a prompt.While my students are out of the room ma…AcademiaIt's been a Dwarf Fortress afternoon.…
I’m going to have to watch this one again. Similar:My Dad Is a Right-Wing Asshole (Village Voice)A closed-minded liberal writing a letter…Culture5 tips for choosing the right typefaceWhen it comes to picking a typeface, you…AestheticsExperience: I let a baby bird nest in my hair for 84 days He was abandoned by his flock, his nes…EmpathyMale…
Similar:As part of an ongoing feud over the rights to use a particular shade of ultra-black paint,…As part of an ongoing bid to get his han…AestheticsBloopers from my monologue for @pictclassictheatre 's Shakespeare Webinar this Friday at 2… View t…AmusingNational Dance DayIn the restaurant parking lot after dinn…CultureThe Physics Behind Traffic JamsIn between today’s…
Rewatching ST:TNG This flipside episode, told entirely from the viewpoint of a civilization on the verge of discovering warp drive technology, documents a visit from members of a federation of space-faring aliens who wear brightly colored pajamas. An ER team with serious forehead bumps admits a patient with serious head injuries. They are first confused,…
I still have odd jobs to tie up, but I’m about to put a pause on this J-Term course that starts in December. Similar:You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.Some people out there will never like yo…CultureWhile at Sadecky's Puppets to record the role of Heidi, Carolyn…
Stunned by Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman and the rest of the cast in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Loved the documentary aesthetic in the opening sequence. Loved the intimacy of the cinematography and acting. Some of my favorite monologues were cut or trimmed, but I recognize a movie can express in a montage or a camera…
Similar:The State Of Media EmploymentThis is why I require my “new media jour…BusinessDonald Trump Is a Broken Man (Assessment by Speechwriter for Reagan and both Bushes)Powerful assessment of Donald Trump, wri…CultureDelightful interview with a former Setonian editor-in-chief who's now doing SEOAs a student journalist, Jessie totally …AcademiaWhere No One Has Gone Before (TNG Rewatch, Season…
We’ll cover all 10 plays, but each student will only be responsible for reading an overlapping list of six plays. The movie adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom opens on Netflix this weekend, and we’ll be covering that play on Monday. Similar:The ‘Cancelling’ of Flannery O’Connor? It Never Should Have HappenedI regularly teach Flannery O’Connor,…
In May, NBC published a “Fact Check” challenging President Trump’s prediction that there would be a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year. NBC was factually reporting the answers they got when they asked experts. Those experts didn’t say there would be no vaccine, they said it would be extremely unlikely. The fact…
Just as the technological innovation of the mass-produced book paved the way for the new storytelling medium called the “novel,” technological innovations that allow audiences to rewatch TV shows and binge-watch whole seasons have changed the whole medium of episodic video storytelling. (Babylon 5 did it early and did it well — but the article…
Similar:We're Teaching Books That Don't Stack UpOur provost sent this link to English fa…AcademiaPict Free Summer Webinar: Shakespeare’s HeroesCultureUdacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes CourseSuddenly, something that had been unthin…AcademiaProgramming as Magic Spells in Erica Sandbothe's New NovelIn her new novel, Codecrafter, Sandbothe…BooksImportant University of Virginia Messages Regarding Sexual AssaultUniversity of…