* All Your Nightmares Are Real: Massive Mayfly Emergence in Wisconsin.
* So, I would like to suggest the following as a starting point: we should highlight the accomplishments of “high-profile” faculty members at our institutions and then show the relatively (or very) modest impact that those accomplishments have had on their compensation; then we should offer, as a point of comparison, the compensation, including bonuses, of largely anonymous administrators whose “accomplishments” will be next to impossible to describe to a general audience. This sort of messaging will do two things at once: it will undercut the notion that faculty are over-paid while simultaneously undercutting the notion that administrators are simply being paid what “the market demands.”
* I would venture to say that back when societies were structured according to religious principles and everyone basically believed in God, a political or business leader who claimed to be a direct channel for God’s will would’ve been regarded as either insane or dangerously disingenuous. Re-label “God’s will” as “the market” or “the politically feasible,” however, and no one bats an eye.
* My son has been suspended five times. He’s 3.
* In Its Death Throes, For-Profit College Chain Spent Over $100,000 A Month On Lobbying.
* …the Education Department has confirmed that it has since awarded two more exemptions to Title IX to Christian colleges that want to discriminate against transgender students.
* Among the claims that form part of the case against Thomas Docherty is that he sighed and made “ironic” comments when interviewing job candidates.
* Beyoncé Class Is in Session.
* Burger King Is Run by Children.
* California Man Fatally Shoots Allegedly Pregnant Home Invader. Man Shoots Teenaged Neighbor Three Times Over Argument About Lawnmower.
* David Harvey at LSE: The 17 Contradictions of Capitalism.
* The Committee to Save the World: Climate Change and the Santa Fe Institute.
Perhaps, Kabat concludes, the positivity should be economic incentives, that every new threat creates some business opportunity. To illustrate this, he shows a slide of a giant wave crashing down on a man. Then he shows another slide showing the same wave coming down, but this time it forms the shape of a hand shaking the hand of the man.
Oh, okay, so you’re saying we’re doomed.
* Google still doesn’t pay any taxes.
* Dibs on the screenplay: According to a NASA study, the Earth just missed what would have been not a civilization ending but a truly massive global catastrophe in 2012 because of a huge solar storm.
* Space Junk Is Becoming a Serious Security Threat.
* An Elegy for the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
* Philip K. Dick’s cult novel ‘Man in the High Castle’ becoming an Amazon TV pilot.
* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Middle-Aged Sadness.
* A Brief Hiss tory of Autocorrect.
* The inventor of the high-five.
* Is it just me, or does 3 1/2 years in prison for stealing a basically irreplaceable Stradivarious actually seem pretty low by American standards?
* Republicans want to impeach; Obama wants to be impeached. Gee, what do you think is going to happen?
* And if Republicans are really so stunningly incompetent why does American politics only move rightward? I guess some things will always be a mystery.
