higher education
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Quickies
New Year, New Quickies
Hello, fine readers! It is safe to say that the Fall 2020 semester absolutely kicked my ass in all the worst ways. After a bit of recovery time, I think I’m ready to take on 2021. That includes getting back to my weekly quickies here! So, in the spirit of the holiday, I’ve picked some retrospectives and big-picture items that…
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Quickies
Quickies: How are all those college openings going?
It’s only the middle of August, but due to extenuating circumstances, many colleges are starting their fall semesters early! Let’s check in on how that’s going… After one week, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill reversed course and moved to virtual learning. An editorial in their student newspaper points out that they all saw it coming. Notre Dame enacts…
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Quickies
Quickies: Fourth of July reflection, COVID fails, but a few spots of bright news…
A very quick Quickies today, as I’m staring down several immediate deadlines… Watch Fredrick Douglass’s descendants deliver his speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Reading and reflecting on this sounds like a good activity, so here’s the entire text, or you can attend a local live-reading. New COVID-19 cases have grown 90% in the US in…
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Featured
SoD Xpost: Our Cultural Obsession with College is Misguided and Dangerous
[Content note: youth suicide, mental illness] The following article was originally posted on School of Doubt. Read it there or catch the beginning below. One chilly morning in my Junior year of high school, a boy who sat a few desks behind me in my AP Calculus class came into school early, parked his car in the student lot, set…
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Meta Stuff
It’s the Sundaylies, with Pick the Dinosaur, Queer PDA, Difficult Colleagues, and a Kid-Friendly GMO Experiment
Sunday Funny: Movie Science vs. Real Science (via The Upturned Microscope) Mad Art Lab Batman and Copyright Robin talks to us about art and copyright and how fan art sometimes walks the line. Mad Art Cast: Performance Anxiety This week A gives us an update on the “female Viagra” and Ashley brings us a story about Adele and news of…
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Activism
SoD Cross-post: BYU doesn’t deserve my job application (or yours)
This post was originally published on School of Doubt. Read it there or catch the beginning below. The conventional wisdom when it comes to the academic job hunt is to apply for every open position, no matter what it is or where it is located. After all, the reasoning goes, beggars can’t afford to be choosers, and you never know what…
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Anti-Science
SoD Cross-post: Anti-vax “prof” ignites scandal at Queen’s U
This post was originally published on School of Doubt. Read it there or catch the beginning below. This week the Principal and Provost of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario publicly acknowledged student complaints that an instructor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies was promoting anti-vaccine materials in a basic health class. The instructor in question, Melody Torcolacci, is reported…
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Meta Stuff
Skepchick Sundaylies: Resting Bitch Face, Cepheid Stars, The Romance Myth, and Raising Feminist Toddlers
Sunday Funny: The Sake of Argument (via xkcd) Teen Skepchick How Best to Be Pleasingly Decorative to Complete Strangers: Facial Expression Edition Elizabeth explains her problem with “resting bitch face.” 50 Shades of Fail Chapter 3: Where Creepy Muffin Eating Occurs and the Intimidation is Purposeful Alice defies reason and continues reading “50 Shades of Grey.” DBT Skills: I AM…
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