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Please Don’t Really Call Us Brights, and Four More
Random. * Call us “brights”: Evidence is reviewed pointing to a negative relationship between intelligence and religious belief in the United States and Europe. It is shown that intelligence measured...
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Thursday Links
* New dystopian novella from Margaret Atwood. It’s a $2.99 Kindle single. * A spring heat wave like no other in U.S. and Canadian history peaked in intensity yesterday, during its tenth day. Since...
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Tuesday Mo(u)rning Links
* Utopian for Beginners: An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented. * Uncomfortable metaphor watch: The two spacecraft, Ebb and Flow, have been orbiting the Moon since their launch...
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MLK Day Links
* 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes You Never Hear. The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV. Beyond Vietnam, 1967. And of course “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” * Jacobin gets profiled in the New...
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Monday
* Today in my classroom: Freida Hughes’s poem “My Mother.” I used this at the tail end of our discussion of Sylvia Plath today and found it really useful as a way of interrogating just what it is we...
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‘Martin Left the House Where He Was a Welcome Guest to Buy Candy for a...
When I asked on Twitter, there were two sorts of answers about what Martin should have done at this stage of the night: variations on “run straight home” and “not be black.” Those options are...
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Thursday!
* First we must understand that though the humanities in general and literary studies in particular are poor and struggling, we are not naturally poor and struggling. We are not on a permanent...
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‘Incorrigible Teenagers’
Victim’s House Burned Down After She Accuses Football Star Of Rape. Anonymous targets Missouri town for refusing to prosecute man who confessed to having sex with 14-year-old and leaving her to die.
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Friday! Friday! Hooray!
https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/396245623856300032 https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/396242744261095424 https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/396242792021647360 * China Miéville: Marxism and...
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Easter Monday (Hardly Knew ‘Er)
* Marquette suspends McAdams through the fall 2016 semester. Marquette’s statement. McAdams has some interesting comments specifically with regard to the the apology requirement on his blog. What a...
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