Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Image: Wikimedia If you grew up in the 90s, you probably saw one of the legendary ITT Technical Institute commercials in the wee hours of the morning. Now, you’ll probably never see one again. Today, ITT Technical Institute campuses have stopped enrolling students at all of its campuses. The abrupt decision to stop enrolling students…
Since the publication of the first issue of Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro in December of 2014, many people, inside and outside of academia, have pointed to the comic, the related backmatter and essays, and even the community that has formed around it–as embodied by the many tattoos of the…
You’ve probably already seen this remarkable “welcome” letter sent to incoming U of C students by Dean John Ellison. It’s probably the dumbest statement I’ve ever seen from a dean, and if you understand the usual antagonistic relationship between the professoriate and the administrative class, you know that’s a strong statement. In this astonishingly…
Cosby Potter, 2, sits on his father’s shoulders during a “day of action” to celebrate graduate students and draw attention to demands Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, near the columns on the University of Missouri campus, in Columbia, Mo. (Daniel Brenner/The Columbia Daily Tribune via AP) The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that graduate students who…
PSY 607: Everything is Fucked Prof. Sanjay Srivastava Class meetings: Mondays 9:00 – 10:50 in 257 Straub Office hours: Held on Twitter at your convenience (@hardsci) In a much-discussed article at Slate, social psychologist Michael Inzlicht told a reporter, “Meta-analyses are fucked” (Engber, 2016). What does it mean, in science, for something to be fucked?…
I can’t sleep on planes, okay? Doesn’t matter how long the flight is, or how much I want to do it, I just can’t manage to sleep on planes. The problem cropped up again for me this summer, as I was flying back and forth from my home here in the sunny United States to…
08.11.16How Clinton Enables the Republican Party08.10.16If I were worried that Clinton might lose, here’s what I would—and wouldn’t—do…08.09.16Sam Tanenhaus on William Styron on Nat Turner: Have we moved on from the Sixties? The Nineties?08.09.16My First Seven Jobs07.31.16Trump’s Indecent Proposal07.30.16Why does it matter that Donald Trump is not a novelty?07.29.16Philadelphia Stories: From Reagan to Trump to…
Some serious academics, according to Google Image Search. Last week, a Serious Academic™exhausted hundreds of words denouncing the use of social media by his colleagues while insinuating that selfie culture poses an existential threat to academic life. The social media backlash from other serious academics was swift and on point, reminding us that many scientists…
Section 1 of 3 [00:00:00 – 00:14:05] (NOTE: speaker names may be different in each section) Al Letson: From the center of investigative reporting in PRX, this is revealed an outlet. Jessie: This is considered the northeast, Mayfair section actually, it’s nice and-[crosstalk 00:00:18] Al Letson: Jessie Suren is a 28 year old college grad….
Nikki Glaser’s Comedy Central show Not Safe usually focuses on the sexual exploits people are shy to talk about openly, but on Tuesday, she dedicated a segment to the subject most universities don’t want to admit is event happening: campus rape. With special guest Katie Nolan, Glaser focuses largely on rape perpetrated by sports stars…