Similar:VIRUS DIARY: For these kids, no adventures to choose BURKE, Va. (AP) — On a recent car ride…BooksFact check: Biden ad misleadingly suggests Trump called Covid-19 a 'hoax' CNN fact-checks a misleading Biden a…Current_EventsThe internet’s memory is fading in front of us. Preserve what you can. Long, self-indulgent essays from a wri…BusinessAll Good Things… (#StarTrek…
According to an article in Medium, toilet paper isn’t selling out because the supply chain is collapsing, or because people are hoarding. We’re using more toilet paper at home. Yes, some people are hoarding, but we’re all spending a lot more time at home. All the toilet paper we would have used at work, in…
Similar:Operation War DiaryOne hundred years ago today, Britain dec…CultureDress Rehearsal for "My Son Pinocchio"My wife, daughter, and I waiting to star…Amusing"Orphans" was amazing. Powerul, funny, cruel, humane, empathetic. I was speechle…PersonalHow We ReadI feel a little nerdier than usual when …AestheticsWe'll Always Have Paris (TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 24)Rewatching Star Trek:…
This is just an excerpt. Read the whole thing. Similar:First Day in the Theatre for Twelfth Night (May 3-12) Daughter: (is sad her “first day in …CultureAnd to think… I had just decided to retire this meme because the last time I used in cla…AcademiaMars Is a Hellhole: Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous…
Other than one trip to the grocery store, I haven’t been in public since March 13, so I haven’t noticed if people in my community have started wearing masks. But I’ve wondered how I’ll be able to respond to people’s voices when I can’t see their mouths. In the past few years, I have…
A few interesting bits I found interesting to explore: There are two different ways to view the exact same data: The logarithmic scale shows a great comparison of the magnitude of growth between countries, but less of the human impact. The linear scale shows the real human impact — a growth twice the size is twice the number of…
My weekend coronavirus lockdown project was writing up a new handout devoted to Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” for academic arguments. Does the word “argument” make you think of angry people yelling? This document presents Graham’s “disagreement hierarchy,” which catalogs multiple stages between juvenile name-calling and carefully refuting an error in your opponent’s central point. Siblings might…
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. After a member of a landing party dies an accidental, senseless death, Picard must break the news to her young son. “Jeremy, on the starship Enterprise, no one is alone,” says Picard. “No one.” Numerous times on my rewatch, I’ve wished episodes would devote less time to scanning and probing…
Public officials misspeak all the time. Journalists make mistakes all the time. Ordinary citizens over-react to headlines without reading the full article all the time. We are all of us human. It’s unfair for any of us to treat every gaffe as evidence of malice or incompetence. For example, critics of President Trump are stretching…
The Shape of the World, According to Old Maps Similar:What a stunningly responsible young man I was, to have on June 10 1998 backed up all my fi…CybercultureWinky Winky Drudge ReportThe Drudge Report today features an amus…AmusingCarolyn and Nick in Beauty and the BeastAestheticsDCNF, TV Upfront Presenters Need to Understand That Content's Kingdom is ChangingToday’s…
In March 2000, I was blogging about Palm V handheld computers for Navy officers Teaching with bells and whistles Stephen King selling a short story online NCAA banning online journalists Great moments in bureaucratic history Diploma mills Maps of imaginary lands Similar:Most Christians don’t actually care about Starbucks cups. Here’s what we do know.No…
Similar:Two Steps Down the Interactive Fiction RoadWonderfully detailed analysis of two gro…AestheticsHenry V Fans: Today is St Crispin's DayKing Henry rallies his troops just befor…CultureWhy We Fall for Fake News and How to Bust ItMeasuring the impact of fake news spread…Academiaxkcd: Types of Editorsxkcd: Types of Editors.AmusingBirthright, Part 1 (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode…
Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. After a primitive, rationalist society mistakes Federation technology for supernatural power, Picard must do whatever it takes to undo the resulting cultural contamination. Fortunately for Picard, that involves lots of talking. A grim scene in sickbay memorably demonstrates that humans in the 24th century can sometimes delay but cannot…
Similar:Reporters’ Privilege Compendium | Pennsylvania Shield Laws Guide – RCFPThe Pennsylvania Shield Law and the Firs…CultureThe bots are coming. And they have poems. Yet in a circle pallid as it f…CybercultureMedea at Seton Hill University.CultureMuseum of Endangered SoundsImagine a world where we never again hea…AestheticsStory Pitch: How writers present an article idea to a busy…
Similar:This history of video game graphics is a walk down memory laneBlogging this so I can assign it to my “…AcademiaTimeline of Donald J. Trump's Statements on Coronavirus OutbreakCultureEveryone thinks AI is replacing factory workers, but Amazon’s layoffs show it’s coming for… Amazon announced Tuesday that it wil…BusinessBuilding a ridiculous amount of detail as I…
Not fake news. Not the enemy of the American people. “Nobody ever thought a thing like this could have happened,” said the the president at Thursday’s press event. Feb 27: “We’re going very substantially down, not up.” [Narrator: “Cases were not going down.”] Feb 26: “The 15 [documented cases of COVID-19 in the USA] within…
Similar:from “The Poet” by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe poets made all the words, and theref…AestheticsDigital Storytelling: Empower the Multimodal Writing Classroom with Scratch How can the busy writing teacher interes…AestheticsCat-sitting. Hello, Blue.PersonalAnother section of #steampunk control panel, because reasons. #blender3d #blender3dartOne of many steampunk control panels I’v…AestheticsSupport the arts in your community! @geyer_pac Hello Dolly!Amusing'Fontgate': Microsoft,…
I haven’t done any audio theatre recordings in a while (thanks, coronavirus) and I miss it. Here’s my interpretation (recorded some time ago) of Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Nightingale.” The nightingale is considered the most beautiful thing in the kingdom… until a mechanical nightingale wins over the citizens, and the true nightingale is banished. But…
Similar:Wendy's Bests Internet Troll, Then Unwittingly Posts Completely Unrelated, Obscure Racist …I fixed the clickbaity title for you. A …BusinessBefore I Go: A Stanford neurosurgeon’s parting wisdom about life and timeA very moving reflection by a dying man,…CultureMy 10yo Sings "Hopelessly Devoted to You"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq81GeqAY…PersonalEvery few years, I Google the name of the kid who saw…
The Society of Professional Journalists links to an interview with an MIT professor who’s studying misinformation on social media (which is not the same thing as bad journalism — some bad actors take journalism out of context in order to deceive). Responsible journalists are aware that sensational headlines can harm the public. The truth is…