Doug Eacho

not really - AFAIK humanities are in a broader arts and social science faculty and applicants need to have top test scores for admission into the whole faculty regardless of intended major. so the math and econ and lit and anthro majors all face the same a-level bar.

wtf. canada asked for $700 just to upgrade from PR to citizenship and i thought that was steep

it's pouring here so we're watching ponyo again after school and miyzaki really did say "i'm going to do little mermaid... lmao, psych, it's kiddie Die Walküre"

i will say though the ones who *are* in our classes are brilliant to a person. not true at the us privates i attended (stanford, brown).

yeah they do pure a-level assessment for the Singaporean uni's and the faculty here (NUS) complain about it a lot. there's also a perception that it harms the humanities; there just aren't enough arty booky kids who can also ace calculus exams.

the nyt might give its subset of readers who search out their buried reports of german opera *some* credit?

the nyt wonders with astonishment that an erudite austrian like jelinek might have guessed that a neurotic narcissist pervert would be really into fecal imagery. yes i wonder where she got that

trouble is, not many people are aware that singapore is a real place that exists

for me and most everyone i know having a spouse and children falls much more into the "poor impulse control" category than the "rational grindset planning" category, which is why having a family is fun

to me the evidence suggests otherwise!

if trump were best approached as a structural usa constitution problem then why are there so many trump-likes across contemporary democracies?

problem is if they accept our accents then it would be only fair for us to accept the québecois accent and that really is a step too far

it's the -é / -ais vowel difference that kills me in french

if it happens someone on here had better introduce me to some non-finance-bro americans in singapore to get slammed with bc my new canadian and korean and chinese friends here are not going to cut it

as someone who biked from MV to Stanford daily for 5 years - and I'm always pro bike lane - wow! is it used? Biking through the adjacent neighborhoods was lovely and safe, and Camino Real seems way too hot and unshaded most of the year to use if there's another option

"tangled" and "zootopia" are so much better than the rest it's hard to understand them as from the same corporate author as like "encanto". is disney animation very segmented project by project? like mini studios within the studio?

moana even more so. perhaps lin-manuel miranda's primary historical project has been trying to make musical theatre straight

"frozen" is an abomination on many grounds but the main one is it's so aggressively tonally hetero

have watched quite a lot of recent disney animation films w tot these past weeks, and wow "tangled" was the last one they allowed to be camp, huh?

my mother, who worked summers at disneyworld in the 70s, said country bear jamboree was the worst possible assignment bc for some reason it attracted the handsiest patrons

yes (only just got a proper research budget, after all...)

cybernetician gordon pask installed a console at a london nightclub in the 50s that would automatically shift the lighting to match the live music (and in theory do live mic mixing). they had to install it in a service corridor so the waitstaff kept dropping forks into it to break it

ty for your timeliness: I've already parked spring 26 for a "re-read Grundrisse and cover autonomism" deep dive! the sort of area i suspect has been poorly served by the grad school syllabus-quick-hits introduction...

similarly: the elite uni's could have increased their undergrad student numbers alongside population. starting new uni's is really hard! expanding them pretty straightforward

among the toronto bourgeois toddler parent set, the *only* argument advanced for "maybe i'll send my kid to private school" is "i want to keep them away from school computers and AI"

not a great sign for academia moving onto this platform that an ad for a TT R1 job, in the year 2025, gets no engagement

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my NUS dept is hiring in art history, open field. come work with me! :

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yeah i think her reputation is higher in theatreworld than in lit proper

100%

wait is there something bad about jelinek i dont know about? she's maybe my favorite winner of that prize in decades

(the other austrian winner, however...)