Links for you. Science:
We Went to the Amazon to Find Out What Makes These Weird Web-Tower Things
Advice for potential graduate students
A Plague of Snakes: But They’re the Victims
The Vast Majority of Raw Data From Old Scientific Studies May Now Be Missing
Shrub Once Thought Extinct Gets Critical Habitat In San Francisco
Other:
There Are Two Americas, And One Is Better Than The Other
BRA cuts deals at expense of affordable housing
And then inequality happened: How Obama’s language left no one to blame
¡Viva México! (the universal single-payer kills me)
Where Are the People? Evangelical Christianity in America is losing its power—what happened to Orange County’s Crystal Cathedral shows why
Charles Pierce Poses Old Timey Questions About Civil Rights
Full employment gives people jobs. But it also gives them power.
2013 YEAR IN REVIEW: THE YEAR IN COVERAGE OF BOSTON BY NATIONAL OUTLETS THAT DON’T KNOW THE FIRST F-CKING THING ABOUT BOSTON
Subtract Teachers, Add Pupils: Math of Today’s Jammed Schools
Republican State Gives Free Houses to Moochers, Cuts Homelessness by 74 Percent
Triumph of the English Major
Sorry, J.R.R. Tolkien is not the father of fantasy: The creator of ‘The Hobbit’ gets more credit than he deserves. (Robert Howard was a far better writer than Tolkien ever was)
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I’ve read quite a bit of both, and that statement is just nonsense on its face.
REH is still great fun to read, though his writings were informed by some dreadfully outdated 19th-century anthropology (the whole savage/barbarian/civilization thing) and his fetishization of the martial virtues of “Aryan manhood” has extremely unfortunate implications to the post-WW2 reader. Also rather cringe-inducing is the idea that black people are somehow fundamentally incapable of architecture, and thus any stone ruins in sub-Saharan Africa (or its Hyborian Age counterpart) must be the work of some mysterious lost race.
My favorite Howard stories are the Sailor Steve Costigan ones that have more of a plot than just Steve and some other guy punching each other (the ones set in Hong Kong and Shanghai, for instance). They’re thigh-slappingly funny.
stag geciktirici sprey savage/barbarian/civilization thing) and his fetishization of the martial virtues of “Aryan manhood” has extremely unfortunate implications to the post-WW2 reader. Also rather cringe-inducing is the idea that black people are somehow fundamentally incapable of architecture, and thus any stone ruins in sub-Saharan Africa (or its Hyborian Age counter