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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Um, Sunday Reading
...Arendt, the movie. Labor hoarders. Secret Law approved. Asymmetric information: economist's euphemism for exploitation. UK austerity cataloged. ReclaimUC: Scathing report on neurosurgeons at UC Davis medical center: "The three cases,...
Sunday Reading
...Blaming South Korea's Culture for Last Week's Ferry Disaster Quotes from Sotomayor’s Dissent Alaska OKs Bill Making Native Languages Official Japanese-era literature in Taiwan E-mails Ignored, Meetings Denied: Bias at...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: Famous UC Berkeley astronomer sexually harassed multiple women over many years A long history of sexual harassment Letter to the New York Times about its coverage of...
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
...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...