Activity from doctornemo

I’m kind of poking at a new weird podcast round-up, but I’ve been very discouraged lately at starting anything. GenjiandProust, I adore those posts and learn a lot from them. Please consider this one vote for your next! [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

No Future* Indeed, that's a theme running through the linked article. The world is looking darker there: “I might as well just enjoy what I have now,” he says. they got to see Lahaina just a few months before it was… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

That's brilliant. Bonus points for bringing in the vegetable people! [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

A lot of people I know rewatch Apollo 13 for uplift. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Bonus points for using "gnarly" to describe both a fine wave and a shark bite. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

WWI just keeps echoing, Heywood Mogroot III. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

it's always been the kind of book I pick up, read a few passages from, and ruminate on. I think that's where I've ended up. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

It's good to see some academic research into climate change getting broader attention. Now to convince colleges and universities to take the crisis seriously. I might use this as a small example of global warming's impact. "Are you ready… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Nelson, keep going with the criminally underappreciated Sandbaggers. It's so, so good. (And think of whatever happened to the writer) [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I love this line: "nothing dates so fast as science fiction (unless it's every other damn thing you can think of)" [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Thank you for that background, Kattullus. I'm about 30% in and keeping stalling. I love some passages and read them aloud to folks. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

A very good open source success story. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

"Hi Bob." [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Just down the road from us in Manassas, interogative mood. Thank you. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

For an excellent science fictional take, may I recommend Mary Robinette Kowal's The Calculating Stars? [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Does it really matter if in like 2 decades there won’t be any academic history anymore? I don't think academic history will cease to exist. As a discipline, it will probably be smaller: fewer full time faculty, fewer majors. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I don't know, GenjiandProust. I don't know. I don't think any book I sold turned someone into a Nazi. I don't think my youth was poisoned by fascists - beyond the gutting of parts of my family tree in WWII. I definitely don't think reading… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

The debt numbers are *for people who borrow* not all college students. About 1/3rd of college students don't borrow money at all, meaning that the median is actually lower for the entire population. Exactly right. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Catching up, as this is stuff I work on professionally: Tough gets a lot of things right. -The swerve away from "college for everyone," what I've called the shattered consensus -Polling numbers going down -The enrollment decline (peak… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Also, the median college debt is not that high- it's $40k, or only slightly more than a single car costs. So I find the focus on college debt across the board kind of weak, or at best incomplete. I've seen $30K, but I think it's more… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

i was born in NYC and grew up on Long Island, but never had the accent. I was a shy kid and watched a lot of tv, so ended up with a bland, midwestern style. My aunt, ah, she had one of the thickest Lawn Guylant accents I ever heard. *And she was… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Relevant, albeit at risk of seeming too academic: “These Are Just Stories, Mulder”: Exposure to Conspiracist Fiction Does Not Produce Narrative Persuasion Kenzo Nera, Myrto Pantazi, and Olivier Klein Narrative persuasion, i.e., the impact of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

William Gibson also wrote at least one X-Files episode. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I'm glad to see some of the awesome Darin Morgan episodes ranked at or near the top, although I wish the article had mentioned (and celebrated) him more by name. (For me, "Jose Chung" would be #1) [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Ah, In Search Of... Loved watching that when it aired. Also Project Bluebook (the tv series). I'm not sure if I could comfortably root or Fox Mulder or The Lone Gunmen today I think that's one response to my question. Although… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

They really don’t compare, and the X-Files did participate in the recirculating of conspiracy thinking. I don’t particularly blame Carter for it; it was in the air, after all, but it was part of a cycle. They do compare, as part of a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

What X-Files did do was unfortunately give those conspiracy theories a platform WAY bigger than they probably should have ever gotten. I'll return to Darin Morgan and point out how his episodes satirize some of those pretty hard. I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

You are the 6,633,809,373 person alive on the planet. This means that you are older than 82% of the world's population and older than 72% of all people in United States. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

As the poster here, I'm a bit frustrated with some of the responses, and am not sure how - or if - to post on the topic in the future. To explain: hippybear wrote: This isn't new news. It's just new news to the news business. With… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

"All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Feeling lunar gravity
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MeFi post - 8 months ago

The two Voyagers are such triumphs of vision and engineering. Really astonishing. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

This crucial image from Voyager 1. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Such promise cut brutally short. This is one reason I keep returning to WWI: the sheer, vast, staggering, and obscene waste of human life and potential. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Good reporting from the Guardian. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I agree with From Bklyn. It's good - heck, necessary - to see this kind of experimentation. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

The first linked article begins by citing Pound on Gaudier; another link includes Gaudier sketching Pound. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

This is a good, and very New York, reply: “Hey baby, why are you so fat?” gets “Because every time I fuck your mother, she bakes me a pie.” [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I vividly remember the shocking image of the little girl in the first scene, smeared with blood, surrounded by soldiers, clutching a teddy bear - and grinning. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Mogur, I thought you might also enjoy the town's name of Carwarp. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

In my work I study (among other things) how academia can respond to the climate crisis. One aspect of this is the research enterprise, and the linked article is a good example. Thank you for sharing it. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

As I read this I received a note that my Virginia county is now under a drought watch. The article made me look hard at the leaves on trees around me, watching for unseasonal yellow and orange. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I have never once seen a "smart board" in a university classroom. No, they exist in many a college and university classroom. I'm teaching in one tonight with three. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

PS: lovely title, Fizz. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

That's fascinating. Living Energy is less than two hours from here. We'll have to visit. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

The Meg 2: The Trench was directed by former U.K.-horror hell-raiser Ben Wheatley And it's dull? This is the saddest thing I've read today. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

(raises hand) UM alumnus here, three degrees from it and what feels like a lifetime in Ann Arbor. This is a *huge* problem for the institution and its people. The university is playing its cards close to its vest, but I'm hearing multiple… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

dabble in tertiary education Really? It's almost certainly one of the top public universities in the nation academically. Yes, the University of Michigan is a world-class research-1 university, and has been for some time. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Ed Simon is executive director of Belt Media Collaborative and editor of Belt Magazine So he exited the Milton world. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Thank you for sharing this, chavenet, and for linking to the ungated version. As a lit crit scholar with training and practice in a closely related field (the long 18th century) this had many resonances. Nice to see the Chronicle publishing… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

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