* A Scholarship of Resistance: Bravery, Contingency, and Higher Education.
* Dear Professor James, #YOLO :). Riffing on this story, though this one is also in the background somewhere.
* Fat profits at NCAA while athletes play for free.
* David Simon on America’s war on drugs and The House I Live In. Introduction to TNI‘s marijuana issue.
* Open Casting Call for History Based Reality TV Show.
* Plot to rig the mayor’s race in New York City.
* The headline reads, “Pope’s foot-wash a final straw for traditionalists.” Elsewhere on the Catholic beat: A suspended Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut accused of making more than $300,000 in sales of methamphetamines is expected to plead guilty to one of the charges.
* So that’s why they act that way: Refusing to apologize can have psychological benefits.
* Did Pacific Islanders reach South America before Columbus?
* As Canada scrambles to dig up some of the world’s dirtiest oil, a bush doctor tracks mysterious diseases, poisoned rivers, and shattered lives. From 2008. I’m sure we’ve sorted it all out by now.
* The Atlantic interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
KSR: With capitalism, we can say that it has very strong residual elements of feudalism. It’s as if feudalism liquefied and the basis of power moved from land to money, but with the injustice of the huge hierarchical feudal differences between rich and poor still intact. What is emergent in capitalism is harder to identify, but there may be something to the idea of the global village, also the education of the entire world population, so that everyone knows the world situation and wants justice, that may be leading the way to a more just global society. Seeing and exaggerating these emergent elements is something utopian science fiction tries to do. So the dichotomy is a sort of x/y graph in a thought experiment.
* One night in the life of a Boston cabbie.
* Game of Thrones renewed for fourth of eighty planned seasons.
* Drawing the impossible? Fully dressed Superheroines.
* Wake up, sheeple! Only 4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power.
* Presenting Adam Kotsko’s grading lexicon.
* Feminism for women who can’t cry at work.
* And your headline of the day: Why I Study Duck Genitalia.
