Archive for 2015

So you think your PhD is a waste of time

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This guy Frobisher goes the Arctic to find the Northwest passage and totally fails, but he finds some rocks that he thinks may have coal or gold or something in them. So he brings them back to good old England and somebody tells him they do indeed have gold in them, so he goes back […]

While you’re waiting for the bus

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Stuff worth reading periodic reminder on the origins of the phrase “the personal is political” Egg War: Why India’s Vegetarian Elite Are Accused Of Keeping Kids Hungry Ask Polly: How Do I Make Conversation? Red flag: dude says he doesn’t like small talk

More than this

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Every August my mother took my siblings and me to the Goodwill for new school clothes. She chose a few pairs of pants for each of us and a new set of church clothes, but we got to pick our own t-shirts. I loved this and could spend hours browsing the racks. It wasn’t the […]

Homosexual sex in the service of heteronormativity

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no one ever asks what’s going on in white culture or what it is about white masculinity that is making this kind of sex practice possible. But that’s really precisely the question we should be asking, because white men have engaged in — straight-identified white men have engaged in — intimate or sexual encounters with […]

Antarctic Edge

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Antarctic Edge is a great documentary. It’s gotten pretty mixed reviews – reviewers seem to think it should be a snappy political piece or a focused scientific piece. By way of their warts-and-all stories, these individuals closely connect with the audience, but what the work and findings in each of the scientists’ respective fields means […]