Category: Whatever
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Pursuing Professorship, Ctd
Originally posted on The Dish: A doctoral student writes: The only reason why there’s a glut of PhD graduates without jobs is that the availability of full-time tenure-track professorships has declined. Why is that? It’s not because of demand. There’s no shortage of students applying and going to college. The problem…
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▶ Little Mix – Holy Grail/Counting Stars/Smells Like Teen Spirit in the Live Lounge
▶ Little Mix – Holy Grail/Counting Stars/Smells Like Teen Spirit in the Live Lounge – YouTube.
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Denutting a Will
As my colleague Bob F. comments, a beautiful takedown of a pundit who has become ever nuttier. Even if Will didn’t have his facts backward, the larger point is that his analysis of transportation choices as a cultural struggle is bizarre and wrong. Will considers climate science a gigantic hoax,…
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Reinventing the Wheel: A Brief History of the Circle as a Visual Metaphor for Organizing Information | Brain Pickings
“Everything rolls, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being,” Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Indeed, it seems that for as far back as we’re able to peer into human history, the wheel has been one of our most central visual metaphors for being. From our early maps…
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Supremely Smug Plutocrats vs. the Supreme Pontiff
My claim: The wealthiest Plutocrats within the 1% use religion and its morality to support their estate as the most powerful. Toward that end, such men and women will often weigh in on issues that they do not care so much about in order to obtain greater control over the…
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Distractions and Slippery Slopes in US Healthcare
Everyone in the United States who is healthy could at any moment, due to an accident or an unknown genetic predisposition, find her/himself in need of medical care. The whole point for some kind of medical insurance rests on not knowing when a doctor or hospital visit may be necessary.…
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The New Rules of Public Art
Originally posted on Public Art Now: Demand new rules for public art now! An organisation born in Bristol, UK, Situations reimagines what public art can be and where and when it can take place. We like to think and reflect on what happens when the spark of an idea is…
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George Zimmerman’s Art Sells for Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars
Originally posted on Critique Collective: Another wild story about George Zimmerman is surfacing. Back in July, Zimmerman was acquitted on a charge of second-degree murder and manslaughter for shooting and killing Trayvon Martin. So, what could be the new controversy surrounding Zimmerman: another speeding ticket or domestic violence charge? Not…
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Spirit of Steller’s Sea Eagles of Hokkaido
Originally posted on Global Sojourns: Photography & Philosophy: At some time or another, I think everyone has wondered what it would be like to fly…to soar above our world and look down upon the chaos below with detachment. Our natural senses are exhilarated and overwhelmed as we glide on the…
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I Am Not My Job: Why I Left New York City
It was Patti Smith who said, in a talk at Cooper Union in 2010, that “New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling.” Smith wrote in her memoir, Just Kids, about coming to New York as a “down and out” young woman, scraping by in a…
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 31,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11…
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One of the World’s Most Powerful Financiers Worried About Damages of Wealth Gap
…Bill Gross, the most powerful bond manager of his generation and co-head of a $2 trillion investment management firm… rankled a few of his peers and clients in the fall when he joined a growing chorus that is raising caution flags about America’s widening disparities in income and wealth –…
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Your brain on BEER vs. COFFEE – I Love Coffee
Your brain on BEER vs. COFFEE – I Love Coffee. Your brain on BEER vs. COFFEE – I Love Coffee.
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