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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before…

Andrew Donaldson December 2, 2020

This all sounds strangely familiar...which means we can guess where this is going. Spoiler Alert: It involves...

Of Poverty, Cancer, Bureaucracy, and Death Stethescope laying on Stacks 1

Of Poverty, Cancer, Bureaucracy, and Death

Em Carpenter February 1, 2020

This is how a vibrant 50 year old woman goes from active to death’s threshold in a...

Tech Tuesday 04/15/19 – “Taxes In The US Are So Stupid” Edition tech

Tech Tuesday 04/15/19 – “Taxes In The US Are So Stupid” Edition

Oscar Gordon April 16, 2019

I love it when we cause materials and chemicals to behave in ways that violate those general...

“I’m saying a prayer for the whole world, George.” Screen Shot 2016-01-12 at 6.06.43 AM

“I’m saying a prayer for the whole world, George.”

Maud Kelly January 12, 2016

Godzilla, Speed Racer, and what it means to be mortal.

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Linky Friday #57

Burt Likko February 21, 2014

Burt Likko fills in for Will Truman for this week's aggregation of dozens of links to themed...

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The Real Healthcare Crisis, Part III: Telling Stories

Tod Kelly November 17, 2013

Much of what we talk about when we talk about healthcare are the stories we choose to...

Ideology Is The Enemy: The Competing Cancers IFRL-TLC-Scenery-Wunderwald-Berlin-4

Ideology Is The Enemy: The Competing Cancers

Tod Kelly November 9, 2013

On average, men wait significantly longer for prostate cancer surgery than women do for breast cancer surgery...

Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/20251. You have the option of laughing at them. 2. Asking people to do the background reading is ableist…
Slade the Leveller on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)I've always been of the (probably unpopular) opinion that no one gets a party for graduating from hi…
LeeEsq in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025There have been a few things about the protest movement that confuses me and nobody seems to have an…
Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Just like what Columbia did to those kids in the library.
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Hero exemplar, Ras Baraka arrested protesting ICE: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/nyregion/newar…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lor4n3ylfk2h The Freedom Admin is "looking…
LeeEsq in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Everybody used to be a lot more forgiving about youthful indiscretions. These days not so much. It i…
fillyjonk on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)yeah, graduation here. Several of my students are graduating so I'm going to go. I thought I'd also…
LeeEsq in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Part of it is what Jaybird says and part of it is a privilege so exceedingly high that they can't ev…
Jaybird on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeAndrew has an episode devoted to this article. Check it out.