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4 octobre 2014

‘Yes Means Yes’ Is a Bad Coupling of Feminism and the State

By Laurie Essig. California’s enacting on Sunday of the “yes means yes” law is a victory for some campus feminist activists but an ill-conceived detour for feminism. More...

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4 octobre 2014

Should We Be Optimists or Pessimists on China?

By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. For those of us who value intellectual and political freedom, what could be more heartening than the sight of thousands of students and other “umbrella” protesters in Hong Kong defying Communist authorities and asserting democratic ideals? Meanwhile, on the mainland, what could be more dismaying than China’s sentencing of the Uighur economics professor Ilham Tohti to life in prison on charges of separatism. More...

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4 octobre 2014

Better Living Through Advanced Tricycling

By Jason B. Jones. Longtime readers (George, mom) will know that I have a giant internet crush on Merlin Mann, who most people outside of Tallahassee first heard about through his productivity-themed website 43folders, then through his Inbox Zero e-mail talk at Google, and most recently as a podcaster on shows such as Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, and You Look Nice Today: A Journal of Emotional Hygiene. (How big a crush? I invited him for a 3-talk visit back in the day.) Merlin usually says that he’s interested in time and attention, and in creative work. Read more...

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4 octobre 2014

Ello and Academic Social Networks

By Anastasia Salter. If you’ve been on Twitter or Facebook lately, you might have seen the first apparent signs of a migration, with users announcing their new account names on the currently invitation-only social network Ello. This isn’t the first time there’s been a new network apparently on the horizon (remember the short-lived exodus to App.net, the still-on-life-support Google Plus, and the decentralized concept of Diaspora pods? Konrad, at least, certainly appreciated Diaspora.), but it’s caught the attention of those looking for an alternative to the advertising-heavy and commercial space of Facebook. Of course, right now it’s pretty empty. Read more...

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4 octobre 2014

The Long Game

By Ben Yagoda. I just turned in to the publisher the final version of a book, and have now started on this post. Not exactly a Trollope move, but it’ll have to do. (“Every day for years, Trollope reported in his ‘Autobiography,’ he woke in darkness and wrote from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., with his watch in front of him. He required of himself two hundred and fifty words every quarter of an hour. If he finished one novel before eight-thirty, he took out a fresh piece of paper and started the next.” —Joan Acocella.)
My satisfaction, pride, and relief in having finished were tempered, a little bit, by the number 80,517. That’s how many words are in the book and, frankly, they don’t quite seem like enough. More...

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4 octobre 2014

Grammar: The Movie

By Lucy Ferriss. It’s got an all-star cast: Steven Pinker of Harvard, John McWhorter of Columbia, Geoffrey Nunberg of Berkeley, Noam Chomsky of MIT, Adele Goldberg of Princeton, Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty, Brad Hoover of Grammarly, Bryan Garner of A Dictionary of American Usage, and dozens of other marquee attractions, including (way down in the credits) yours truly. I’m talking about Grammar Revolution, a quirky feature-length documentary by David and Elizabeth O’Brien, which is intended—I think—to wake us all up. More...

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4 octobre 2014

Dumb Writing Advice, Part 1: Word Prohibitions

By Geoffrey Pullum. An Überflip page by Andrea Ayres-Deets is headlined “5 Weak Words That Are Sabotaging Your Writing.” If only there were a few words that you could simply expunge to get an immediate improvement in your prose! But of course it’s nonsense. Writing advice can’t be reduced to word prohibitions; and the prohibitions recommended here would be ridiculous overkill. More...

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4 octobre 2014

Smile, Smile, Smile

By Allan Metcalf. The centennial commemoration of the start of the First World War has brought to the fore some of the music of that war, including an unsung gem that could well be the greatest fight song of all time.
(Granted, it’s not exactly unsung, since it’s a song. And the BBC recently praised it for its musical qualities. More...

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4 octobre 2014

Report Examines Fields With Highest Gender Imbalances Among Ph.D.’s

By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Exploring Gender Imbalance Among STEM Doctoral Degree Recipients”
Authors: Andrew Gillen and Courtney Tanenbaum, senior researchers in the education program at the American Institutes for Research
Organization: American Institutes for Research
Summary: Men are overrepresented in about three-quarters of academic fields, and women are overrepresented in about one-quarter, according a paper from the American Institutes for Research that examines gender imbalances in fields in which Ph.D.’s are awarded. More...

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4 octobre 2014

4 Years and $2-Billion in Community-College Training Grants, State by State

By Kelly Field. The White House on Monday unveiled the winners of the fourth and final round of Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grants. This year $450-million went to nearly 270 community colleges that volunteered to work with 400 employers to train displaced workers for high-skill, high-wage occupations. More...

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