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Tuesday Night MOOCs and More
* 20 Things the Matter with MOOCs. * Also from Richard: What do asteroids, MOOCs, and medical records have in common? All are examples, currently in the news, of the way in which public policy in the...
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Sunday, Sunday
(some links via Aaron’s Sunday Reading, which as always has so much more) * The greatest nation in the world: A few nights a year, Tennessee holds a health care lottery of sorts, giving the medically...
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Tuesday Night Links
* Welcome to My Massive Open Online Cult! Welcome to my MOOC—Massive Open Online Cult—a 10-week course based on the revolutionary educational models of Coursera and edX. Due to the “massive” nature of...
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Spring Break Monday Links
* Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney. What a story. I bawled. * Apocalyptic flooding scheduled for Wisconsin. * Hampton, Florida, the little town so corrupt even the rest of Florida thinks it’s...
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Thursday Night Ferguson Links
Some links I’ve come across on the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri, since my link post this morning: * 11 chilling facts about America’s militarized police force. * Why there wasn’t accountability for the...
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Weekend Links!
Seeing nonsense about the humanities as a luxury again. The humanities are a cheap profit center that subsidize other university operations. — Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 21, 2015 * If I weren’t...
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Wednesday Links!
* Fans aren’t the irrational ones. They know how to seize pleasure from the world and hold tight even as it hurts them. If fandom is simply an obedient response to the signals of the consumer market,...
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Weekend Links!
* Are you at AWP? Or in DC generally? Jaimee is! She’ll be doing a book signing at the Waywiser Table at 12:30 Saturday and then reading at the Waywiser reading at 7:30 PM at the Den. * I’ll be giving...
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Weekend Links!
* Extrapolation 58.1 is out! With articles on Octavia Butler, Aldous Huxley, Neal Stephenson, and Celu Ambsterstone. I’ll give a special endorsement to Donawerth and Scally’s Butler article, which is...
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Monday Morning Links!
* Paradoxa 32 has a cover. * Boys don’t read enough. * The era of high fertility is ending. Every child on their own trampoline. Police-Free Childhoods. The Seismic Generational Shift in Worldview:...
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