Climate Change and Disaster

Henry Fountain, “At Chernobyl, Hints of Nature’s Adaptation.”

New advances in solar technology.

Climate change already impacting US and “New Report Finds Climate Change Already Having a Broad Impact.”

Katie Valentine, “The Southeast Has Had More Billion-Dollar Disasters than the Rest of the Country Combined.”

 

Archives

A whole new kind of archive fever: the cassette tape that can hold 64 million songs. Where was this technology when I was making mixtapes in high school?

International

Anatol Lieven, “Ukraine–the Way Out.”

David Cole, “‘We Kill People Based on Metadata.'”

 

Humanities and Higher Ed

Carl Straumsheim, “Digital Humanities Bubble.”

Using Microsoft Outlook may be unethical for researchers.

Scott McLemee on the first issue of Porn Studies.

And unsurprisingly, scholars are protesting the first issue of Porn Studies.

(I think again . . .) The first issue of Porn Studies.

Bradond Keim, “The Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be . . . Paper.”

And following this, study shows that students who take notes in class on paper do better than students using laptops. You hear that class?

High school commencement speech: you are not special.

Further erosion of higher ed: Southern New Hampshire University.

Adam Kotsko, “The Academic Job Market: A Kierkegaardian Perspective.”

 

US Culture

Daniel D’Addario, “Monica Lewinsky Breaks Her Silence on Bill, Beyoncé, and the Blue Dress in Vanity Fair.“

Cirocco Dunlap, “The Sims You Left Behind.”

The Rams draft Michael Sam.

More on irony and sincerity. This time, millenials are not sincere. . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s letter of recommendation for Walt Whitman.

Lizzie Widdicombe, “The End of Food.” On Soylent.