Tomorrow’s Professor Blog: 772. Academic Freedom: This function of tenure has been challenged as “absolutizing” academic freedom: “[T]enure can never protect of guarantee academic freedom,” John Silber opined. “Academic freedom is protected and guaranteed by the courage of individual professors, and by individual administrators who protect individual members of the faculty, and by students. If […]

YouTube – March of the Librarians:

Can you trust your mind? at hvattum.net: How good are you when it comes to concentration and perception? Here is a cool experiment where you can test you ability to focus attention on a certain object in a short video. —- no, one can’t trust one’s mind, but eh..

Radical Society – Review of Culture & Politics: THE SKEPTIC IS GENERALLY PORTRAYED AS standing, on purpose, outside the normal flow of life. The skeptic refuses to assent to things that most people take for granted, perceiving the world through a protective lens of doubt and incredulity. The skeptic is the one who pauses just […]

In You More Than Yourself — In These Times: And the same goes for my partners who I communicate with in cyberspace: I can never be sure who they are. Are they “really” the way they describe themselves? Is there a “real” person at all behind a screen-persona or is the screen-persona a mask for […]

$21,280 starting salary in a Virginia public library system: There is really no need for a study. The study will, however, provide quantitative evidence to support the self-evident–that $21,280 is a paltry starting salary for a professional with a master’s degree (who may be carrying sizeable student debt incurred while earning that degree). A study […]

i broke one of my favorite mugs this morning…. one my sister got me i think in undergrad… suxxors. those are the little things in life that can change a day from weeee, to bleh.

YouTube – Being an Unperson: 000000000 this is… perhaps one of the most profound statements of institutionalization of our time.

the dreamlife of letters, Brian Kim Stefans: