The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform
...first thing I want to do, then, is slow us down a bit, and go through the last year with a bit more care than we’re usually able to do,...
Taming the Inexplicable
...story fully, it suggests the island is one big VR experience commissioned by a federation of different countries to increase worker creativity and efficiency. A hidden audio log from this...
Built to Last
...economy and they do have a slight sense of loose change within the economy, possibly, that they might well have a bit more money to spread around, and they might...
The Souls of Ivy Folk
...People be released in the same world where, as its protagonist Sam puts it, “Big Momma’s House 3 exists.” And it might seem a bit hyperbolic, but I’ll write it...
Revenge of the Thanatoids
...already read it before, all of it. Or to put it a bit less crudely, it’s difficult to imagine this book’s circulating outside one or two of the subcultures that...
Powers of the Bottom
...Could you talk a bit more specifically about the relationship between your text-based work and filmmaking practice, particularly with regards to the filmmakers you mention? I am quite drawn to...
Why You Gotta Be So Sensitive?
...“dermatitis” bit: there’s irritant dermatitis, in which a product makes your skin itch or redden or blister for no apparent reason, and allergic dermatitis, in which your body has an...
Days Spent Doing Too Much of Fucking Nothing
...documents the major events of each day: the triumphs of waking up early, often before dawn, for the coveted packets of sugar that come with breakfast, and a bit later...
A Deluxe Apartment in the Sky
...time, facing scenarios every bit as complex as their white counterparts. The end of some long-running white sitcoms like Seinfeld made way for new post-Friends millennium favorites such as How...
Bend It Like Benglis
...editors’ personal sensibilities but also of the larger (and conveniently undefined) “aims of [the women’s] movement.” Another grievance: As art writers and editors, these five felt professionally compromised by their...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.6.12
...wash my hair about once a week and it doesn't get nearly as greasy as it did before I did the extended no-shampoo bit. So even though I'm happily washing...
Just the Facts
...the scientific objectivity of the technocrat might finally resolve political disagreement or at least convey some bit of truth to those reasonable enough to listen. But stubborn ideological opponents can...
Milton Friedman’s Pencil
...from some mines in South America. This red top up here, this eraser, a bit of rubber, probably comes from Malaya, where the rubber tree isn’t even native! It was...
The Journalist and the Suicide
...of daily veteran suicides in 1999 was 20. Since then, it has never come up shy of 17. If anything, the new numbers show improvement over 1999, when veteran suicides...
Woke Up Dead
...tool that’s free to download and requires very little programming foreknowledge. With a simple bit of syntax, the developer can create complex pieces of interactive fiction. Theoretically, any web design...
Dissecting the Frog
...jokes, who laughs, and who is expected to remain silent). It also calls attention to community tensions — information that is every bit as revealing as uncontested group norms. While...