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Friday Night Links!
* New Study Predicts Year Your City’s Climate Will Change. * Hacking, War and the University. Hackers, War and Venture Capital. * The sequester is a government shutdown which never ends. * An...
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Exactly 100% of the Sunday Links
* Hundreds of children have been killed by American drones. These were some of their names, written down and erased. * All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. The Sound of Terror: Phenomenology...
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Wednesday Links!
* The law, in its majestic equality… Rejecting Man’s Bid For Refugee Status, Court Rules Climate Change Is Not ‘Persecution.’ * New Kenyan Sci-Fi Series Imagines Immigration In Reverse, As Africa...
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Weekend! Links!
* Program for the 2014 MLA Subconference, January 8-9 at Columbia College Chicago. * CFP for “Joss Whedon: A Celebration” at DePaul University this May. * The New Yorker considers Kim Stanley...
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Weekend Links
* Now we see the violence inherent in the system: Unreturned library books can mean jail time. * It’s intuitive but wrong to picture the public debt as private debt we’re all on the hook for. In...
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End of 2013 Mega Link Dump – All Links Must Go!
* This gentleman violently inserted his finger into dozens of victims’ anuses. Sometimes his friends held guns to the victims’ heads to force them to comply. Why was he sentenced to just two years in...
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These Sunday Links Are Rated to Temperatures of -30 Below
* Baby, it’s cold outside. Behold the power of this fully operational polar vortex. * Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For. #3 and #4 seem to imply an unstated ecological agenda...
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First Day of the Semester Links!
* CFP for this year’s meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, which will be meeting at feminist science fiction convention WisCon in Madison this year. * MLA Delegates Narrowly Approve...
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Spring Break Monday Links
* Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney. What a story. I bawled. * Apocalyptic flooding scheduled for Wisconsin. * Hampton, Florida, the little town so corrupt even the rest of Florida thinks it’s...
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Thursday Links!
* Here Are the 55 Schools Currently Under Federal Investigation for Sexual Assault. Behind Focus on College Assaults, a Steady Drumbeat by Students. * There have been violent threats, angry screeds,...
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Tuesday Links!
* Ian Bogost on moralism and academic politics: The Opposite of Good Fortune is Bad Fortune. * This week on Studio 360: Will Sci-Fi Save Us? * The Forgotten Opposition to the Apollo Program. * They say...
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Tuesday Links!
* Research-at-Marquette has a nice writeup about some of my current research projects at their Medium site. * Hannah Arendt would have had a field day with this kind of reasoning: how it takes an...
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Sunday Night Links!
* Kenya sci-fi series imagines European immigrants fleeing to Africa. A very different premise, but it reminds me a bit of some of what happens in Abdourahman A. Waberi’s excellent short novel The...
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Thursday Links!
* Marquette English Spring 2015 courses! I’m teaching a section of 3000 (our new intro to major — mine is themed around magic) and the second round of my NEH “Cultural Preservation” course. I’m also...
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London Calling to the Faraway Links
* accessiblesyllabus.tulane.edu. * Global Markets in Chaos After UK Votes to Leave EU. Five terrifying immediate reactions to Brexit from the markets. Results Map. All this and the vote wasn’t even...
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Start Monday Off Right with Monday Links, Half-Price for the Entire Month of...
* Things are bad all over: No new novel cracked the top 20 print bestsellers in the first half of 2016. * Stranger Things thinkpiece roundup! The Solution to Our Political Problems Lies in ‘Dungeons...
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Wednesday Links!
* Some CFPs I posted yesterday: Buffy at 20! SFFTV Call for Reviewers! And Paradoxa 28: “Global Weirding” has officially appeared in the world as well; see a table of contents and our introduction, and...
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Fritrump Links!
* Trump’s America Conference at University College Dublin. * Midwest area research opportunity: Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture, Northern Illinois University. * See...
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Monday Morning Links
* I was delighted to find Octavia E. Butler on Locus’s 2016 Recommended Reading List. And you can vote for it as nonfiction book of the year! Make Ursula work for it. * Eight works of science fiction...
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Sunday Morning Links!
* Good year for children’s studies academic jobs: Bryn Mawr and York. * But some researchers want to dig deeper. They want to know why quantum mechanics has the form it does, and they are engaged in an...
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