* I saw this movie: Brains of rats connected allowing them to share information via internet.
* It bears repeating: The candidate’s adviser sent us a letter on which both “department of history” and “faculty of arts and sciences” were misspelled.
* Advice From Tenure-Track Faculty To Those Entering The Profession.
* Beyond the MOOC: While other universities move quickly to offer courses online for free, Carnegie Mellon University is instead starting for-profit efforts designed to capture segments of the education market. I’ll promote this a bit more as the date gets closer, but I’ll be speaking at a “What’s the Matter with MOOCs?” event at UWM in mid-March.
* Boots on Campus: Yale Flap Highlights Militarization of Academia.
* Student Debt Nearly Tripled In 8 Years, New York Federal Reserve Reports.
* The Dan Harmon backlash, at the AV Club and TNR (of all things).
* Justice, American style: The city’s complaint in federal court claims that if Ms. Truong is entitled to damages for the nearly three years she spent in jail awaiting trial, then Mr. Ryan is as much to blame as the city because he took too long to get the coerced confession tossed out of court by the judge.
* What is happening with Bob Woodward? Seriously, WTF Is Up With Bob Woodward?
* Will a Republican friend-of-the-court brief tip the Supreme Court in favor of gay marriage? I’m pretty sure it’ll have more luck than Obama’s.
* These numbers are unprecedented: by 2014 President Obama will have deported over 2 million people – more in six years than all people deported before 1997. That “before 1997″ actually means since 1892.
* AFL-CIO Executive Council Endorses Comprehensive Doomsday Policy for Working Families.
“We need union jobs today, not tomorrow,” said Rich Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO. “The resolution balances our desire to protect the fragile ecosystem of the earth, while acknowledging the economic benefits of a high-road strategy to develop the doomsday technologies of the future.”
* Never forget: The entire staff of the West Wing died on Voyager.
* How Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the EmpireTurned Star Wars into Science Fiction.
* Women Work Harder Than Men, Study Says.
* When the White House was completely gutted.
The social events of the 1948 holiday season had to be canceled. And with good reason: Experts called the third floor of the White House “an outstanding example of a firetrap.” The result of a federally commissioned report found the mansion’s plumbing “makeshift and unsanitary,” while “the structural deterioration [was] in ‘appalling degree,’ and threatening complete collapse.” The congressional commission on the matter was considering the option of abandoning the structure altogether in favor of a built-from-scratch mansion, but President Truman lobbied for the restoration.
* When Martin Luther King played pool.
* “Preserved” plushies in jars.
* Help wanted: must be infallible.
* They’re making a movie out of The Drowned World.
* Shale Gas Fracking Will Be Around For a Long, Long Time.
* And American history, Breitbart style: Journalists on the campaign trail saw Johnson drunkenly board a plane armed with nuclear weapons and then accidentally drop them on the United States. We all saw it!
