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Thursday Links
* By Steve Benen’s math, the vote-rigging scheme in Virginia comes out to counting Democratic votes at about 3/5. Meanwhile, stupid Democrats are still trying to win by playing fair, turning Texas into...
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Literally Every Weekend Link There Is
* It’s official: J.J. Abrams will ruin Star Wars (more). * More drone fiction, please. Tweets not bombs. Lip-syncing the poetry of empire. * Žižek vs. Zero Dark Thirty. Imagine a documentary that...
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Wednesday Night Links
* Stanford freshman’s documentary chronicles Huntington’s disease decision. Spoiler alert. Indiegogo fundraising. Twitter. * My particular demographic: Study Finds Vegetarians Will Live Longer, Are...
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Friday Links! Soviet Choose Your Own Adventure, World Tetris Competition,...
* In 1987, an anonymous team of computer scientists from the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic wrote a series of children’s books based on the popular Choose Your Own Adventure series. The books were...
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Some Sunday Reading
* A warning to college profs from a high school teacher. * The Secret to Fixing Bad Schools. * Pulp Science Fiction in Spain, Before And During Totalitarianism. * Sweating Obama Admits Drone Strikes...
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And Some Links
* The theme for MLA 2014 is “Vulnerable Times.” * NCAA Reform Gone Wrong. A decade has passed since the National Collegiate Athletic Association rolled out its academic reform package. In that time,...
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Thursday Night Links
* 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...
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More Monday Night Links
* “Too few questions were asked, too many assumptions were allowed to go unchallenged, too many voices of doubt were muffled or rejected in a toxic atmosphere of patriotism, ignorance and political...
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People Who Have Never Learned Anything Conclude No One Needs to Learn Anything
Lawmakers are considering the possibility of eliminating one or two campuses in the University of North Carolina system, a top Senate budget-writer said Thursday.
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Friday Morning
* In case you missed it: North Carolina lawmkers are threatening to shut down one or two UNC campuses. Save Our State event next week at Duke. * The Silicon Valley-based company said to be...
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Thursday Links
* North Carolina update: holy smokes. I mean really. I mean really. * This is quite incredible. Even if a college uses all of its extra tuition revenue to increase the financial aid it awards, that...
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Tuesday Links
* “‘The best way to interview is nonpregnant and ringless,’” that respondent said, adding she was only able to land a job after she kept her family secret during the interview process. * Cheating on a...
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Wednesday Night Links: 8,000 Barrels, 0.000025%, 3,387 Men, $100 Bills, and More
* Over a longer time span, say a decade, we would expect about 19 spill incidents with an aggregate spill volume of about 8,000 barrels, enough to fill about half of an Olympic-sized swimming pool. We...
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Thursday Reading™
* It is very hard to accept this — the wealth gap is not a mistake. It is the logical outcome of policy and democratic will. From the streets of Cicero on up, the point was to imprison black people in...
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Thursday Night Links: Liars, Scoundrels, Star Trek, and More
* Transcript from the September 19 meeting of the Cooper Union Board of Trustees. Even putting aside that their short-sighted and obviously bad decisions caused the problem in the first place, the...
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Monday Night Links
* Florida develops innovative solution to problem of students unprepared for college. * We’re all to blame for MOOCs. (Hey! Speak for yourself. I just got here.) A second chance to do the right thing....
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Six for Friday
* The dark side of dual enrollment. There’s some interesting stuff here on how testing practices deform learning, too: We talked a little bit about the class, her performance, and where she should go...
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Fourth of July America Links USA USA
* How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military. And they say literary criticism is useless. * DHS immediately begins implementing green cards to gay couples,...
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Saturday!
* Features, not bugs: America Is Raising A Generation Of Kids Who Can’t Think Or Write Clearly. * Former NFL Tight End Wins Concussion Grievance Case Against Cincinnati Bengals. * Onondaga Public...
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His Royal Highness Prince Monday the First
* When Nada Al-Ahdal discovered that her parents had sold her she ran away. She is 11 years old, and this is her message. Wow. * Obama, Trayvon and the Problem That Won’t Be Named. * A study finds the...
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