For the autumn of 2020 I am running the following courses with TAG: Media on the Margins Every other weekBegins Saturday, September 12, 2020 3:00 PM Ends Saturday, December 19, 2020 3:00 PM This course will focus upon the intersection between media and marginalization. The course format will be a series of open online collaborative [...]
The experience of privilege is antithetical to the development of empathy. It breeds cruelty. The experience of being on the receiving end of cruelty can go two ways: one can develop kindness or malice. Often one develops both. The malice ought to be toward the instigators of the cruelty and the kindness toward everyone else. [...]
The real sand trap of writing academically is the limiting expectation that the only ideas with any validity are the ones echoing an established precedent. That's much easier in STEM than in the humanities. Giant leaps in one catalyze giant leaps in the other, and on the humanities side this breaks the mold and can [...]
https://youtu.be/3I5UExk4J20 This was written by my dad. He's a retired Cambridge Fellow in Physics and understands the math. Since many people find a wall of text and numbers difficult, I've made this infographic video visualizing the data. I hope it helps people get a grasp of the numbers. Isolate yourself and wash ya hands. Stay [...]
"Jello Biafra" by Libertinus is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 In the fall of 1987, I was a senior in high school in Vestal NY, where I had just moved from Athens, GA. I had been waxing punk for a couple of years but it was then after moving that I began to discover American west coast punk bands like X, Fear, and the Dead Kennedys. In my senior public speaking class, a debate was assigned, and we were paired off and given a topic. My partner and I were assigned the then-recent subject of parental warning stickers on music. I took the position of arguing against this, having followed the whole thing in the [...]
Written by Elli Belle Mayhem This is about a band called Chumbawamba. They were around from 1982 – 2012.Many people have a variety of opinions about this group, both positive and negative.That is not what this story is about. This is about Chumbawamba as a history lesson, and this is about Chumbawamba as artists who continually [...]
I created this site a little early so it would be here when I was ready to use it. Now my house is in order and I'm in the final stages of bouncing back from my knee replacement surgery and other medical fixes. When I left off as an instructor in higher ed in mid-2017, [...]
Always have a birthday cake big enough to share and small enough to avert a diabetic coma. (spoiler alert: Not actually diabetic. Might be after this cake.)
