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Big Monday Links
(some links stolen from the great zunguzungu) * It’s bad enough that I’ll never be asked to reboot Back to the Future—but it’d be utterly intolerable if the gig goes to two guys I went to high school...
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Thursday Night Links
* I just want to hear him deny it: Chris Christie Denies Falling Asleep at Springsteen Show. * Top 10 dying industries in the United States. Top 10 fastest growing industries in the United States. *...
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Seriously, Like, 10,000 Sunday Links
* Backed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the SUNY20/20 Act sounds the death knell of universal, affordable education. In May, President Obama visited SUNY’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering...
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Friday Night!
* Bady and Konczal: The Slow Death of Higher Education. * Modest HUUUUUUUGE job gains in September. So huge. * Tig Notaro live. * The wisdom of markets: Man in a “drunken blackout” bought 69 percent of...
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Thursday Already?
* List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen. * Adam Kotsko calls for more specificity and rigor in discussing the student loan crisis. It is hard for me to avoid the conclusion...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Links
* The new issue of Science Fiction Studies is dedicated to Chinese science fiction. * Breaking: Liberal arts majors didn’t kill the economy. * Judith Butler’s Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS. * Mark...
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Procrastination Won’t Procrastinate Itself
* 1959 memo lists government regulations for Yeti hunting. 1. Royalty of Rs. 5000/- Indian Currency will have to be paid to His Majesty’s Government of Nepal for a permit to carry out an expedition in...
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Wednesday Morning Links
* I’ll be at SCMS 2013 in Chicago tomorrow, talking about War and Science Fiction in Battle: Los Angeles. I have to be back in Milwaukee that evening and Friday, but I’m hoping to meet up with some...
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Thursday Night Links
* This may shock you, but Thomas Friedman loves MOOCs. An Ad Hominem Attack Against Thomas Friedman. MOOCs R Us. MOOCs or BOOKs? * Public higher education is about to cross a historic threshold, in...
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More Monday Night Links
* “Too few questions were asked, too many assumptions were allowed to go unchallenged, too many voices of doubt were muffled or rejected in a toxic atmosphere of patriotism, ignorance and political...
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Sunday Night Links
* Pay student athletes: Louisville’s Kevin Ware suffers gruesome leg injury. Will Ware be stuck with the bill? Louisville sophomore Kevin Ware’s injury today in the Midwest Regional finals of the NCAA...
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Wednesday, Oh, Wednesday
* There’s nothing inherently fascist in Žižek’s call for an elite cadre of benevolent dictators to rule us like kings. Why, it says so right there in black and white: There is absolutely nothing...
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$7.25
Here’s the truth: Most minimum-wage workers are adults, the majority of them are women, and many are parents who are trying to raise their children on poverty wages.
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Wednesday Morning
* The wisdom of markets: hacked @AP Twitter account sends Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling 150 points in a few seconds. * Handy charts reveal why you’ve never heard of most female SF authors. *...
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All the Sunday Links
* Sad news: Iain Banks has died. A Few Notes on the Culture. A list of spacecraft in the Culture series. * Coffee’s good for you again. Stay buzzed, America. * This piece on MOOCs from Jonathan Dettman...
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‘The Cheese Sector Is Doing Extraordinarily Well’
Scenes from the economic doldrums in Wisconsin.
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Thursday Links!
* Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito Suddenly Realize They Will Be Villains In Oscar-Winning Movie One Day. * Is it too late? The long view offers reason to hope. From Kim Stanley Robinson. * Mourning and...
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Thursday Links!
* Gasp! The MOOC ‘Revolution’ May Not Be as Disruptive as Some Had Imagined. * Scenes from the class struggle in New York: CUNY and SUNY bigs get chauffeurs as tuition soars. * The job skills employers...
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Saturday!
* Two from Jacobin: Gendered conceptions of credit and reward are written into the structures of intellectual property law. Don’t Mention the (Class) War. * Malcolm Harris and Nathan Schneider talks...
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Fall Break!
* The shutdown is over; bring on the next shutdown! Communists at Standard and Poor’s Determine the Shutdown Took $24 Billion Out Of The US Economy. What You Can Get For The Price Of A Shutdown. Here...
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