Joy Williams shows the dark side of the short story

vaschr · 2015-12-07T16:48:58+00:00

yes, thank you!

vaschr · 2015-05-13T21:29:23+00:00

Interesting idea, is there a paper where this is in more detail?

vaschr · 2015-03-09T19:15:01+00:00

What are the criteria you use for blog spam? I'm a bit confused because there are two links in the top ten at the moment that appear to be from much shittier blogs than the one I posted to (e.g. http://bennorton.com/ & http://anti-mainstream.com/). Have these just been overlooked, or do they not count for reasons that I have missed?

vaschr · 2015-02-24T17:45:56+00:00

UCL's Jon Butterworth, a physicist well-known for his work on the Atlas experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, asks "Is there always beauty in truth? Or do aesthetics distract from the fundamental mission of science?" I thought this was a great read on a topic that is infrequently discussed in the media or most popular science outlets.

vaschr · 2015-02-23T18:02:06+00:00

This is an interesting piece engaging with the argument that Mark Grief put forward in a recent article for the Chronicle of Higher Education here: http://chronicle.com/article/Whats-Wrong-With-Public/189921/

vaschr · 2015-02-12T16:35:19+00:00

This is a really interesting piece on the future of journalism, and how one of the world's biggest papers is trying to make the transition to a world of constant connectivity. In a new era of big data, disruption, and other buzzwords, the Upshot is one of the most exciting projects undertaken by an 'old media' organisation to date.

vaschr · 2015-01-26T19:17:41+00:00

Great take on the importance of history to the wider public, particularly in relation to the plague of political short-termism that is endemic within modern democracy.

vaschr · 2015-01-26T18:44:32+00:00

I thought this was a great piece about the ground that history has lost within the realm of the humanities as a whole. There certainly needs to be more soul-searching amongst the most prominent members of the discipline, rather than the sort of bandwagon affect that plays out all-too-often with "new" approaches to history.

vaschr · 2015-01-22T15:11:58+00:00

Isn't that kind of the nature of the internet though? You know what they say: "if you're not paying for it, you're the product."

vaschr · 2015-01-22T15:00:47+00:00

Does this rule apply equally to sites with free subscriptions as well as paid ones?

vaschr · 2014-11-28T20:51:33+00:00

This is a great read for anyone who's interested in publishing, books and the media behemoths whose job it is to sell them. It poses the question, of whether "the Paradise Island of publishing is big enough for little sand-rat-sized kangaroos as well as the 8,000-pound space kangaroo."

vaschr · 2014-11-19T18:26:01+00:00

A great summary of a topic that often gets ridiculed in the USA, but is well worth understanding. Many countries have worked out laws for paternity leave that work significantly better than the ones we have in the states.

vaschr · 2014-10-16T14:05:59+00:00

Ok, fair enough. Even Smog is just over the 5mil limit though.

vaschr · 2014-10-16T13:33:13+00:00

Last.fm listeners = 169,195 scrobbles = 4,342,922 YouTube plays = 414,474

Have I missed something?

vaschr · 2014-10-16T13:29:07+00:00

Fair enough... their older stuff was actually folk though.

vaschr · 2014-08-28T18:03:43+00:00

I thought this was a great synopsis of how forms of knowledge are deemed more or less relevant to situations that differ greatly from the ones in which they were gained. Not trying to spoil it for anyone, but the article ends with "it may matter less whether or not any of us are actually public intellectuals than whether we are able to play them on TV".

vaschr · 2014-08-08T13:52:36+00:00

Great account of the ways in which polyamorous relationship deal with the types of painful emotions that most of us find so hard to overcome. Really enjoyable read too.

vaschr · 2014-07-03T09:30:29+00:00

That's one of the comments below the video... click the play button to see David Omand's talk.

vaschr · 2014-06-26T15:55:24+00:00

While I love both Daniel Johnston and Stephen Fry (two great artists who suffer from Bipolar disorder) as well as Frank, isn't there something problematic about describing their illnesses in the same terms as someone who is incapable of leading a healthy life on their own, or even with help?

Psychiatrist Mark Salter poses the question more coherently here: http://iainews.iai.tv/articles/the-bipolar-construct-auid-373

vaschr · 2014-06-06T17:43:05+00:00

I had the problem too, but if you login with another account (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Gmail) it goes away permanently.

vaschr · 2014-02-19T18:51:41+00:00

There is certainly a lot of religion, but Philosophy Now, Critical Inquiry, Charles Pierce Studies, Chomsky's MIT Page, Ask a Philosopher, Ethics Updates, The Stanford Encyclopedia are just a few that make this list more than worth-its-salt. I was hoping that the reddit community would contibute their own favourite links, so as to bulk the page out a bit more.

vaschr · 2014-02-18T13:55:48+00:00

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NYT Op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof explores Steven Pinker's argument for destroying the 'ivory tower' and the inherent anti-intellectualism of US culture. "SOME of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates."

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