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Wednesday Is Friday and the Living’s Easy
* Half the professoriate will kill the other half for free. In other words, while a few already well-paid superprofessors get their egos stroked conducting experiments that are doomed to fail, “second-...
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Upcoming Stuff
* This Saturday, I’m giving a paper on Superboy-Prime and the fan-as-villain at the Reception Studies Society Conference at Marquette. I’m talking at 10:15 AM. * Next Tuesday we’re hosting the English...
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Monday’s Links Has Learned to Tie Its Bootlace
* Wes Anderson’s The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders. * A billion-year storage medium that could outlive the human race. * New drugs could extend cancer patients’ lives—by days. At a cost of...
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All This Weekend’s Links at Half the Price
* Michael Lovell, Marquette, and Milwaukee. MU’s students are on board. * Turns out academic freedom isn’t free: Michigan State University could risk losing $500,000 if it does not stop offering...
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Wednesday!
* A bounce house flew away with three children inside. Unreal. * Also unreal: Homeless Football Player Can’t Receive Fans’ Aid Due To Criminal Cartel’s Insane, Abusive Rules. Here are the salaries the...
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Closing All My Tabs Friday Morning Links!
* The first review I’ve seen of Green Planets says “it was just okay for me dog.” Hopefully the praise in the next one will be a little less qualified… * The “decent Left” was wrong: a blood soaked...
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Some Links for the Weekend!
* After compiling extensive data from over 600 LEGO sets, students found that most Lego sets were marketed almost exclusively to boys and included very few female mini-figures. And, as one student...
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I Guess That’s Why They Call It Jet Lag Links
* “Fantastic Breasts and Where To Find Them.” NSFW, and probably deserves a trigger warning for imagery of sexual violence too. * Academics, Public Work, And Labor. * Kids Returned To Honduras, Killed....
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Monday Morning!
* Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change. * Notes on “Stop Hillary.” * Smartly realizing that nothing is going to change on the climate change beat, NPR guts its environmental reporting....
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Monday, Monday
* The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the...
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All Your Christmas Eve Eve Links
* De Blasio and the police. Some amazing stuff in there. According to a former de Blasio aide, during the general election campaign in 2013, de Blasio’s team was even convinced that members of his...
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Closing All My Tabs Before I Flee The Country Links
* The new issue of Extrapolation is out! This one was put together before I was an editor, but it’s still really great stuff. * CFPs: Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2015. Tolkien at the...
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Friday Links!
* I’ll be speaking at this event on June 4th in DC: Resolved: Technology Will Take All Our Jobs. * SF-flavored art exhibit at the Racine Art Museum. * I think it’s fair to say Marquette has had a...
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All the Weekend Links, Existential Despair on the Side
* In case you missed it: the call for papers for SFFTV‘s special issue on the Mad Max franchise. And our Star Trek special issue is still open, too! * Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment. *...
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*More* Weekend Links? Can It Be?
* Jaimee’s amazing first book has a preorder page at Amazon. Book launches in October! See her webpage for some of her online poems in the meantime! * The entire natural world is celebrating this...
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Off to MLA Links!
* CFP: Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy. * “Man who changed name to Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop faces 5 years in prison on drug charges.” * Kim Stanley...
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Weekend Links! Catch Them All!
* Americans first learn about slavery as children, before adults are willing to explain finance capital or rape. By high school, young adults are ready to hear about sexual violence as an element of...
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Monday Links! Quite a Few!
* I had a review of Cixin Liu’s The Dark Forest in The Los Angeles Review of Books last week. Can’t wait for Death’s End. * “Star Trek style teleportation would take billions of years.” Not if you...
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Friday Morning Links!
* CFP: Anticipations: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction and Radical Visions. * “A mysterious infection may have killed 15 people in Wisconsin, and health officials aren’t sure why.” * The Coming Desert. *...
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Spriiiiiiiing Breaaaaaaaaak! Links
I have a plan to shorten the coming Dark Ages from 10,000 years to only 1,000. PM me for details. — Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) March 13, 2016 * Don’t miss the CFP for my upcoming Paradoxa special...
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