Breakfast in Bedlam
...to feed lunatics anything to break their nightly fast. They were allowed only supper (called lunch today) and dinner. And these meals had to be bland and meager so as...
Circle of Presence
...Altered photograph of Murray Kempton, via On a recent Sunday, I opened up my Twitter feed to find Sherry Turkle getting pummeled for an opinion piece in the...
All Our Little Lives
...banalities because they don’t know yet that people won’t. Your Twitter feed isn’t complete until you follow a teen, and you aren’t entertaining until you start acting like one....
Free to Choose A or B
...with us and turns them into an entertainment product meant to make Facebook money. Facebook's excuse for filtering our feed is that users can't handle the unfiltered flow of all...
Chestnut Economics
...family of five could look forward to three hours of such work -- and this simply to prepare enough to feed themselves. The drudgery of the chestnut harvest nonetheless failed...
Not this. More that!
...Lorde, as I keep learning, is deeply pedagogical, deeply interested in how we learn from experience, and, especially, how doing and feeling teach us to know. “Uses of the Erotic”...
The Algorithm and the Watchtower
...teach them (because we were taught) to behave as if visual surveillance is inescapable. We do so regardless of the degree to which actual watchers actually see and the extent...
Epistemology Kills
...the absence of urgent emotion. The title of this book suggests that urgent emotion is at its center—that the novel has something to teach us about what it’s like to...
Sunday Reading
...their jobs, but Teach for America is expanding "Yik Yak felt different. It wasn’t just a new tool for the school’s bullies; it was also an equalizer." Prison labor in...
Reform School
...he’s hearing from a child. Schools don’t teach these kind of skills. His command of knowledge was colored by a sense of immediate responsibility, not just for himself but for...
Sunday Reading
...Jacob Remes: Context for Japan's snap election today "Racism, in this construct, is the result of ignorance rather than malice or structural inequalities." The inside/outside game in New...
All Presidents
...disturb us more, either because there would have been a greater number of total casualties in the invasion of Japan, or because the victims would have been of a different...
Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of August 25, 2019)
...by Japan Skipping a meal daily boosts your chances of avoiding cancer and chronic diseases, one researcher suggests The Trump administration's war on national dietary guidelines And proposed changes to...
Sunday Reading
...and the Afropolitan Debate Jacob Remes: Photographing a family torn apart by the tsunami Has Japan Learned Anything from the 2011 Disaster? Fukushima evacuees in their own words, five years...
Beauty Blogosphere 12.21.12
...to the tune of "Tradition": Geek culture and nail art collide, prompting Cassie to look at one connection between the two worlds: obsession. Lush love: Can I get fangirl for...
Sunday Reading
...You” The purity of drones Google Writes Poetry on Subjects that People are Truly Interested In Smoke Screen and Smoke Signals Mapping Drone Strikes in Pakistan ReclaimUC Follow the money,...