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Alternate Universe Senates
Annie Lowrey plays what-if with the Senate in the Washington Post. But what if the 100-member Senate were designed to mirror the overall U.S. population — and were based on statistics rather than state...
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Tuesday Night
* Today’s thing that every academic is linking: How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps. * The study, by David Stuckler at the University of Cambridge and others, found that for...
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Sunday Morning Links
* What if a rainstorm dropped all of its water in a single giant drop? I love everything Randall has been doing on What If?, but I’m especially fond of What would the world be like if the land masses...
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Tuesday Night Links
* “If you carry a penny in your coin tray, how long would it take for that penny to cost you more than a cent in extra gas?” * Having been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 15...
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Tuesday!
* Great research opportunity for any PhD student studying science fiction, fantasy, horror, and/or utopia: the R.D. Mullen Fellowship. I loved the time I spent in that archive. * CFP: The cultural...
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Tuesday Links
* In case you missed it last night: “Some Preliminary Theses on MOOCs.” * New York Times editorial: The Trouble with Online College. A five-year study, issued in 2011, tracked 51,000 students enrolled...
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Wednesday Morning!
* Man tragically unable to remember saying Barack Obama would make a great president says Hillary Clinton will make a great president. Meanwhile, the rest of us are reduced to talking about Obama’s...
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Wednesday Links! Seriously a Lot!
* Like C.P. Snow’s two cultures of the humanities and the sciences, a new bimodal view of higher education is becoming increasingly important at the start of the twenty-first century: one that sees the...
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