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Psychohistory
Forget Roland Emmerich; the real Foundation adaptation was on BBC Radio in 1973.
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A Few Sunday Links
* Decadence watch: people in Arizona are spraying paint from their sprinklers to make their lawns greener. * ‘New FBI “vault” discusses Utah UFOs, other secrets.’ * Nate Silver tries to polish Obama’s...
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Tuesday Night Links
* Scenes from the class struggle in Hogwarts: it costs at least $42,752 a year to get a proper wizarding education. UPDATE: Want more about the cost of attending Hogwarts? Misopogon at Dog Eat Crow...
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La Guerra de Los Mundos
Somehow I’d gotten this far without hearing about the 1949 War of the Worlds broadcast in Equador that left six dead after a riot. Thanks to my dad for the link.
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Today’s News Yesterday
To appreciate these skills and some of the difficulties involved, you might wish to do an experiment. Try sitting alone in a room with a clock, turning on a tape recorder, and starting to speak into...
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Thursday Night Links
* Having a monetary value tied to human incarceration and justice creates a deeply perverse incentive that should not exist in the world of commerce. When the for-profit prison industry places the iron...
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First Tuesday after the First Monday in November Links!
* ICYMI: An edited and expanded meritocracy, lottery, game blog post got republished at Inside Higher Ed yesterday. Here’s a reply suggesting a better metaphor than games might be the casting process....
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Sunday Night Links! Probably Too Many!
* Upcoming appearances: I’ll be speaking at the Environments & Societies workshop at UC Davis next Wednesday. And of course we’ll be debating whether Harry Potter is a dystopia (it is) this...
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Wednesday Links!
(…though Tuesday’s links are still perfectly good…) * I’m really excited to see that the Jameson talk on the army as a figure for utopia I talked about at the end of my Battle: Los Angeles essay is...
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Weekend Links!
* Clear your calendars for the An und für sich Star Trek: Discovery blog event, beginning Monday! * A student project from my Tolkien class gets a great writeup at Marquette’s Digital Scholarship Lab....
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