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how things come together1 comment

elizabeth wrote 1 month ago: The reason is simple: I always wanted to quit math, but I always thought: I’ll learn a little … more →

spring semester commonplace book3 comments

elizabeth wrote 2 months ago: I’ve neglected the blog all term because I’ve been so busy with coursework, and most of … more →

location and locution

elizabeth wrote 3 months ago: Two wonderful posts I bookmarked in the last month or so that seemed to have something to say to one … more →

Tags: Speaking in Tongues

where i've been (organizing)1 comment

elizabeth wrote 4 months ago: Sorry, folks, my attention has been away from (this part of) the internets for a week or two.  The … more →

Tags: Friends and Comrades, rabble-rousing

nyu occupied2 comments

elizabeth wrote 4 months ago: Last night, members of the Take Back NYU coalition occupied the third floor of NYU’s Kimmel Ce … more →

Tags: Revolutions

High Water Mark: Thoughts On Huck Finn 2 comments

Kevin Fenton wrote 5 months ago: When you finish Huck Finn, you think: Wow:  so that’s the ridiculously high standard for generosity … more →

Tags: Huck Finn

speaking of gaza: divestment

elizabeth wrote 5 months ago: This week, Hampshire College became the first US university to divest from companies complicit in th … more →

Tags: Rights and Wrongs, War

Updike on Huck and Ishmael

Kevin Fenton wrote 5 months ago: “We [American readers] are accustomed to honest autobiographical shapelessness. Ishmael and Hu … more →

Tags: Huck Finn, Updike

Tom Sawyer Is A Tool

Kevin Fenton wrote 5 months ago: I know that Tom Sawyer is one of the most beloved characters in American literature. But when he re … more →

Tags: Huck Finn

Chapter 8 Spirituality

breetreport wrote 6 months ago: I have been hovering around this and now, I am going to try and explain it. The Natural Witches’ sp … more →

Tags: The Natural Witch: A New Spin On Old Magick, natural witch, spirituality, World, Spirit, Practicing, spiritual heights, Knows, essence

the past is a foreign country

elizabeth wrote 7 months ago: I’m back in the Sanjak of Alexandretta for a brief stay, and will return to the present late t … more →

Tags: the post-ottoman world

the map thief1 comment

elizabeth wrote 7 months ago: Every so often, I come across something in the newspaper and think, there’s a novel somewhere … more →

Tags: cartography

idiot winds

elizabeth wrote 8 months ago: Several other people covered this while I was buried in essay-writing and housing issues last week, … more →

Tags: Friends and Comrades, Rampant stupidity

i'd take that class4 comments

elizabeth wrote 9 months ago: Upon viewing the linked clip, via Sepoy here: Maybe it’s just the combination of sleep depriva … more →

classroom vignette, election season

elizabeth wrote 9 months ago: I’ve been sticking to my vow not to write here about domestic politics–others say it all … more →

Tags: Revolutions

If Your Thinking About Considering Maybe Going to Grad School

workingsforsuckers wrote 1 year ago: I clicked on a linked ad in gmail, How I got Into the Stanford Psychology, I didn’t look throu … more →

Tags: Advice, College, Education, Graduate School, admissions

Propinquity

Larry wrote 1 year ago: Finished up the rest of Influencer. Environment changes: machines made without man intervention rest … more →

Tags: Influencer, propinquity

Picture of the Week: GED Graduation Ceremonies3 comments

Bunkie Perkins wrote 1 year ago: Deuces to you too, graduate! What do GED commencement ceremonies look like in the South?  Well much … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Faking it for real - A Paper Mask (Collee, 1987)1 comment

Bonnie Green wrote 1 year ago:     Paul McGann plays Martin Harris/Dr Simon Hennessey in Paper Mask (1990, [VHS], High Flie … more →

Tags: Research Ethics, film, book, TV (fiction), Clinical ethics, medical skill, Expertise, bogus doctors, john collee


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