Bad and utterly unsurprising: it sucks to have a non-Anglo name
Still not sure how much of the rhetoric will translate into, you know, action
Links I liked
Still not sure how much of the rhetoric will translate into, you know, action
Bad and utterly unsurprising: it sucks to have a non-Anglo name
Utterly depressing. Outrageous and despicable.
This is well worth 30 minutes of your time
Marina Hyde is my favourite Guardian columnist and quite possibly one of the funniest persons alive. She doesn’t normally do TV or radio but now she’s on Today in Focus and I can actually hear her talking about Brexit & stuff and OMG I’m having a fanboy moment here.
The warning signs have been present for some time. Les Républicains are on the verge of a crackup. Caught between Macron’s LRM and Le Pen’s RN, the party’s electoral space […]
Apologies to anyone visiting here who was confronted with links to lotteries, flashing signs, and even (shudder) literal bells and whistles. It’s (by my count) the third time my site got hacked since it went up in flames earlier this year. Why, I hear you ask, would anyone bother? Why go through the trouble of…
In this, your friendly neighborhood economist explains how extortion can reach a nice, efficient equilibrium where everyone is reasonably happy. Fascinating stuff.
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying, Rachel Monroe writes.
Sunday afternoon in Germany is the perfect time for contemplation, because there is absolutely nothing else to do. If you want to worry about catastrophic events slightly further in the future than climate change, listen to this wonderful episode of Big Picture Science about the end of everything 😱
Filip Vostal thinks that slow scholarship is basically Goop for the academy. I think he is onto something
For several years the slow scholarship movement has gathered an international following in advocating for a more conscientious slower form of academic work. Arguing against this blanket rejection o…