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Friday Night Links
* Income inequality, as seen from space. * Maxim’s oral history of The Wire. * Robert Ebert reviews Moonrise Kingdom. Wes Anderson’s mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be b… more →
Gerry Canavan
Friday Night Links
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wrote 11 hours ago: * Income inequality, as seen from space. * Maxim’s oral history of The Wire. * Robert Ebert re … more →
When You Have Your Lawyers Go Over This, Don't Print Anything That Can Get Me Sued
wrote 19 hours ago: Inside the great professional sports conspiracy theories. … more →
Sign of the Times
wrote 20 hours ago: In the face of financial pressures, Wesleyan University is moving away from its blanket need-blind a … more →
Friday Morning!
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wrote 20 hours ago: * Waste your weekend the Manufactoria way. This is one of the best flash games I’ve ever playe … more →
Now That Elites Have Changed Their Minds the Constitution Says the Opposite of What It Used to Say
wrote 1 day ago: Another court rules DOMA unconstitutional. … more →
The Lingo
wrote 1 day ago: The “kill list” story is a reminder of how much language matters, and how dangerous it is when the p … more →
Wednesday Night
wrote 2 days ago: * The true gloomsters are scientists who look at climate through the lens of “dynamical system … more →
'If an 8-Year-Old Girl Has a Really Hard Time in School because of Her Short Hair and Boyish Clothes, And Is Bullied for That, That’s Not Her Pathology—It’s the World’s'
wrote 2 days ago: New York Magazine profiles trans kids. Via Longform. … more →
Wednesday!
wrote 2 days ago: * Life advice from Neil Gaiman: Make good art. * Too ignorant to know it can’t be done: Teenag … more →
Red Plenty at Crooked Timber
wrote 3 days ago: Stephen reminds me I completely forgot to link to Crooked Timber’s Red Plenty roundtable, feat … more →
'Something Is Going On in Society When We Freak Out about Giving Someone from a Poor Background a Leg-Up, But We Are Silent about All the Advantages We Give—At the Exact Same Moment!—to Privileged Demographics'
wrote 3 days ago: My point with all of this is to highlight the power of definition. When admissions offices take race … more →
Jaimee Makes Me Nice Things
wrote 3 days ago: …for instance, my very own copy of the classic Van Gogh painting Blue Box Exploding. … more →
Just a Few Tuesday Links
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wrote 3 days ago: * Romney releases fake birth certificate, the truth is out there etc. * Trailer for Tetris: The Movi … more →
When Will Moonrise Kingdom Come to Your Town?
wrote 4 days ago: Here’s the list through June 8. … more →
'Universities Will Not Survive as Research Institutions unless University Leadership Realises That the Working Conditions They Offer Dramatically Reduce the Size of the Pool from which They Recruit'
wrote 1 week ago: Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried. … more →
Games Criticism We Can Believe In
wrote 1 week ago: Critique-modding Sid Meier’s Colonization. … more →
So Many Mothers Sighing
wrote 1 week ago: Your infographic of the day: maternity leave and American exceptionalism. … more →
Here Comes Justice
wrote 1 week ago: Federal judge finds DOMA unconstitutional. … more →
Arigata-Meiwaku (n): An Act Someone Does for You That You Didn’t Want to Have Them Do and Tried to Avoid Having Them Do, But They Went Ahead Anyway, Determined to Do You a Favor, And Then Things Went Wrong and Caused You a Lot of Trouble, Yet in the End Social Conventions Required You to Express Gratitude
wrote 1 week ago: This wonderful list of 25 handy words that don’t exist in English is indispensable if only for … more →
