Archive for September, 2016

While you’re waiting for the bus

The Transit Pulse of London’s Tube Black in Middle America | Brevity Time to unionize customer-facing bankers know the difference Very important note on fantasy systematics Bidding Wars for Renters, Not Just Purchasers I don’t care that my current bedroom is so small I had to remove my drawer handles to walk around the bed, […]

Everywhere at the end of time

One of my favorite artists has been diagnosed with early onset dementia and is creating a “series of works exploring dementia, its advance and its totality.”

What’s a grad student worth?

I have a post up today on Tenure, She Wrote about structural financial barriers in academia for chronically ill graduate students. If a worker is less productive, should they be paid less? This is not an abstract question for me. As a sick graduate student, I take longer to produce academic products like papers and […]

While you’re waiting for the bus

The Worst People in the World Magnitude 5.6 earthquake in Oklahoma ties biggest area has seen The Two-faced Politics of Indian-Americans Radical Flâneuserie: the aimlessly wandering woman Navy analysis found that a Marine’s case would draw attention to Afghan ‘sex slaves’ – The Washington Post Speak Polish and die Why isn’t your old phone getting […]

What is an aura?

For years I didn’t think I had aura with my migraine attacks because the way doctors described it wasn’t the way I experienced in terms of symptoms, timing, and duration. If you have weird experiences before or during your migraine, it’s likely you have aura, too. Check out this nice little descriptive study to get […]