* What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop? I love everything Randall has been doing on What If?, but I’m especially fond of What would the world be like if the land masses were spread out the same way as now – only rotated by an angle of 90 degrees?
* Say “digital humanities” one more goddamn time.
To be blunt, I want to give grad students permission to intelligently bullshit their way through questions about DH just as they would any other question.
* Salman Rushdie vs. science fiction.
* Research demonstrates the word “illegals” is dehumanizing.
The term “illegal immigrants” was used in the study specifically to “test the extent to which respondents would use or avoid the phrase.” Study participants were exposed to negative and positive media frames and messages in the news on TV, radio and print as well as in entertainment media. According to the study, non-Latinos no matter what the media format, think that Latinos and “illegal immigrants” are one and the same. There was a higher percentage of people who agreed that Latinos are “illegal immigrants” when exposed to negative frames, but even when exposed to good messages, people still held on to that view. Additionally “over 30 percent of respondents believed a majority of Latinos (50 percent or greater) were undocumented. And in terms of how language matters, “while 49 percent of respondents offer ‘cold’ rating of undocumented, 58 percent rate “illegal aliens” coldly.
* Inside Paul Allen’s Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain.
* Life as the wife of a Ponzi schemer.
* Why The Jetsons Still Matters.
* Do You Have a Poor Sense of Smell? Congrats, You Are a Psychopath.
* And I did my part: Long Term Grade Inflation by Institution.
