- TwitterSnooze temporarily snoozes your chatty Twitter friends. Ever want to ignore someone’s Tweets? Now you can.
- Dramatisation in news. Straight from Media Studies 101.
- Rejecting the “model” in model minority. Asian Americans are the classic model minority; we are, supposedly, amiable and submissive to Caucasian authority. Not only is this demeaning to Asian Americans, it also insults other minority groups by telling them how to act: with complete subservience.
- Hilary Clinton releases statement for APA Heritage Month. Barack Obama releases statement for APA Heritage Month. John McCain has been silent so far.
- Washington University to give Phyllis Schlafy an honorary degree. Except that this woman is an active anti-feminist who believes that married women cannot be raped. How very progressive.
- Missiles, Money and the Mainland: The Taiwan Dilemma. It’s a good listen for anyone interested in the history of and current relationship between Taiwan and China.
- Open Humanities Press is a collection of seven Open Access journals about cultural and critical theory. Interested in Open Access Publishing? Check out Open Access Directory.
- It takes a lawsuit to change a man’s name. Because nowhere in the paperwork is there an option for a man to take his wife’s name.
- Former Dartmouth professor plans to sue students and colleagues for “intellectual distress”. I wouldn’t have noticed this story except that it happened right down the street. Professor got humiliated by a freshman class. It has happened before. Professor wants to sue university because of said humiliation. That’s something new. Want some perspective on her personality? Get this: “Venkatesan didn’t get along with her colleagues - who consisted of research associates, Ph.D. students, and other postdoctoral fellows - from the very outset of her tenure at [Dartmouth Medical School].” Gee. Guess what the common element is.
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