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...
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
...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,...
Sunday Reading
...merge in Bitcoin. The quiet desperation of the TaskRabbit. ReclaimUC : Your education is not more important than any other struggle Zombie MOOCs Teaching while black and blue The eliminative...
Sunday Reading
...Student Loans Immoral? ReclaimUC UC/CSU: Time for a fundamental rethinking of the role of the UC administration. Pepper-sprayed students from UC Davis win settlement worth $1 million with the UC...
Sunday Reading
...the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Highlights from the AAA Israel-Palestine Task Force’s Final Report ReclaimUC: UC Davis spent at least $175,000 to scrub pepper-spray references from Internet The University...
Sunday Reading
...in California's Punjabi-Mexican community On digital detox, and pathologizing connection RIP William Weaver, translator of Umberto Eco ReclaimUC: Open letter to the UC Berkeley community about the intimidation of grad...
Sunday Reading
...Old Delhi The history and social impact of refrigeration ReclaimUC: Some rules for teachers How one of America's last free colleges screwed its students and betrayed its legacy Myths about...
Sunday Reading
...my sitting" ReclaimUC: On the ongoing failure of the UC administration to confront racism on campus Public universities as tax shelters Revolutionary study against and beyond the university The lessons...
Northanger Abbey and antisocial pleasure
...the compromises involved with accommodating other people. That is, they teach us that we can be around others without caring about what they are feeling; the pleasures of ownership can...
Summertime Selves (On Professionalization)
The summertime self discloses the logic of the utopian university fantasy: Probably never are we more of it than when we think we’re outside of it.
Red Light Green Light
...where I teach. You can still say “those kindergarteners” to anyone who was there at the time and they’ll know exactly who you’re talking about. It feels both factually and...
Trophy Season
...for J to teach me, because it's a perfectly natural thing to see a person who's punching people and assume that person is kind of a jerk. As a teacher...
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...questioning the existence of a god of any gender. My father was a bit more enthusiastic, going so far as to teach Sunday school, but even at 7 years old...
Downward-Facing Drones
...to a faith in asana. All these news stories point to the same truth: In the U.S., yoga often begets a toxic culture that encourages, if not outright rewards, dangerously...