Activity from doctornemo

The two Voyagers are such triumphs of vision and engineering. Really astonishing. [more]
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This crucial image from Voyager 1. [more]
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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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Good reporting from the Guardian. [more]
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I agree with From Bklyn. It's good - heck, necessary - to see this kind of experimentation. [more]
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The first linked article begins by citing Pound on Gaudier; another link includes Gaudier sketching Pound. [more]
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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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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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Mogur, I thought you might also enjoy the town's name of Carwarp. [more]
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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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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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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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PS: lovely title, Fizz. [more]
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That's fascinating. Living Energy is less than two hours from here. We'll have to visit. [more]
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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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(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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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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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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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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A few years ago Naomi Wolf tweeted at me because I was mocking a local person who was keen on chemtrails. Wolf thought I was pro-chemtrail, and so we had some strange exchanges. [more]
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He is so, so good. The rural medicine routines are favorites of my rural family members. [more]
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Mayo is cthonic evil and must, like Carthage, be destroyed. [more]
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Some updates: from the Freep CNN MLive Click on Detroit [more]
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Doppelgangers usually turn out badly, in the literature. I hope Naomi Klein manages to survive this. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 months ago

Oh please pretty please let's not derail this thread into another "Space travel is bad, we should take that money and {INSERT PROJECT HERE}}" Thank you, Pluto. MeFi's progressive opposition to space is a long-running theme. [more]
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"Will someone rid me of this turbulent caterer/mercenary group owner?" [more]
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The NYT writes: "Thomas, a rising bass from England" Isn't he, in fact, Welsh? [more]
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Kudos to ISRO for this triumph! It's also great news for humanity, as we have a shot at learning more about the moon's south pole. [more]
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Poor little probe. [more]
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Industrials... my father worked in them for most of his life. He was proud of that work. Died this June at 91. [more]
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This is great. Thank you. [more]
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Has the passive voice historically functioned to deflect responsibility and consolidate unjust power arrangements? One bookseller referred to this as "the passive bureaucratic exonerative." [more]
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I've been advising colleges and universities to get into this, especially if they have lawns, but also for ag programs. [more]
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Very good and moving article. It hit me straight on. My father died this summer. He was 91; long life. I'm 57. This is hitting me, well, as TFA says, armouring my mind against the pain Yes, and it's complicated, so more armoring… [more]
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Earlier this year when the Ohio Tourism Board was in the midst of rebranding the state's tourism slogan, one online commenter suggested, "Hell is Real." That's a bit stronger than "At least we're not Detroit." [more]
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So glad to see this. And note the age of those bringing suit. Bravo to the rising generation! [more]
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Tired enough tonight to misread "I came here to doubt that Psylocin and Psylocibin" as "I came here to doubt that Pynchon and Pynchon" and started to imagine a really different story. [more]
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I am reading this in a hospital as Mrs. Doctornemo recovers from a heart attack. She has a DNR and... damn. I can't write more. [more]
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“Delete your account.” - that is one cold response. [more]
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He’s finally fallen to the bottom of the stairs Ah, the Exorcist Stairs. They are literally next to the classroom where I teach, which delights me every single day. [more]
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From that linked post about the climate change angle: What all this illustrates is that powerful institutions in American life are not even pretending to make even the most minimal changes that are demanded by any serious response to the… [more]
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Lucy in Dracula: Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble? But this is heresy, and I must not say it. [more]
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I didn't know about MSG's origins in Japanese colonialism: As Japan colonized much of East Asia in the early 1900s, MSG followed the sword. Ajinomoto’s products became associated with Japanese imperialism, especially in China. [more]
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More seriously, good on them for inventing this! [more]
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Thank you, Etrigan, for including the climate aspect. [more]
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There's a fun bit in an Andrew Vacchs series about a Chinese restaurant which is actually a front for (mostly?) benevolent crooks and gangsters. It does function as a real place where you can get food and has a storefront, but only for their… [more]
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There's a lot of old man shouts at clouds, ok boomer energy in that piece. A bunch of classic mistakes: no sense that people *can* read on devices and not have our brains erased; no recognition of the digital arts (hypertext, games, digital… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 months ago

oh, content, my love, how I long for thee, how my aching loins quiver for thy sweet embrace. The Mona Lisa is content. The Venus de Milo is content. Twelve-Thousand-Pound Kissing Cousins in Bitchin’ Monster Trucks is content. Pimple Lickers is… [more]
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I would very much like to find the cone equivalent for cars still driven by humans. [more]
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A lost Edward Gorey manuscript. [more]
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