soft bigotry of low expectations

#28

Binghamton is #28 in bestcollegereviews.org's list of best college towns in America.

It is a very silly list.
https://www.bestcollegereviews.org/50-best-college-towns-america/

citation stats

to be clear, this is someone citing a bear, not the bear citing someone.

Iris Marion Young and dodgeball

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/06/07/dodgeball-is-tool-oppression-used-dehumanize-others-researchers-argue/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eea56f703c00

bonus link:

Vestal and dodgeball

Summer's over

get to work

Palindrome Week

what a great week:

8-12-18
8-13-18
8-14-18
8-15-18
8-16-18
8-17-18
8-18-18

unfortunately next week is going to suck.

it's still summer, but barely

à propos of nothing ...

Am I alone in finding the very idea of “Continental Philosophy” ridiculous? What would we think of a university that appointed someone to teach Continental Chemistry? Continental Algebra? Does it tell us something about philosophy as an academic discipline?

— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 10, 2018

meanwhile at Stanford

learn Nietzsche from Peter Thiel (and Russell Berman)?

Peter Thiel returns to Stanford, he’s listed as a prof for a course for the upcoming academic year: pic.twitter.com/W2r0wDBcR3

— Andrew Granato (@agranato42) July 25, 2018

show me the turnips

 "Your well-informed message to me of the dispatch of the Teltow turnips was received with the greatest thanks. They have not arrived yet; presumably because of the path ruined by the frost, but I look forward to this gift on a daily basis." - I. Kant, Königsberg, 20 Dec 1799

Happy Birthday

... to Tony Preus

pyrrhonian

Reporter: "How to you ensure that North Korea is not all talk, no action going forward?"

President Trump: "Can you ensure anything? Can I ensure that you're going to be able to sit down properly when you sit down?" https://t.co/0omV9J2jKX pic.twitter.com/QbnA5lwNGR

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 12, 2018

will the future be like the past??

happy loving day

The justices unanimously agreed. On June 12, 1967, proscriptions against interracial marriage were declared unconstitutional. #LovingDay pic.twitter.com/MocPEXBU9P

— NAACP (@NAACP) June 12, 2018

more from google translate

we are all mall rat

scale must be backwards

that's the only explanation

Profs most likely to be labeled boring
1 Anthropology
2 Philosophy
3 Econ
4 Hstry
5 Sociology

25 Math#asa16 pic.twitter.com/e7qPdtJWuI

— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) August 20, 2016

semester's almost here ...

for now, though ... just the first couple seconds

last week of summer blogging

Trump just said he wants to end tenure so NOW IT IS SO ON CHEETO MAN.

— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) August 17, 2016

most/least metal words

A Data Scientist Discovered the Most Metal Word in the English Language

The most metal word of all is burn, followed bycries, veins, eternity, and breathe. The least metal word is particularly,followed by indicated, secretary, committee, and university. What you can infer from this is that the metal English is spoken from a timeless, elemental, and darkly ethereal space, while standard English is unremarkably deskbound. Perhaps this is why we hunger for metal in the first place.

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/07/the-most-metal-word-of-all.html