Allan Clifton

This is great! Adding this to my undergrad personality class reading list.

She wouldn’t have questioned it if you consulted the OED

KNOWLEDGE WINS A solider following a trail of books to an illuminated city PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOKS ARE FREE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

Dan Smith “Knowledge Wins” World War I Propaganda Poster (American Library Association, 1918)
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Thousands of dollars less than Apple TV!

The plans were clearly on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’

What is this? A monument for ants?!?

A section of a Wikipedia article about Jane Goodall: In popular culture Gary Larson cartoon incident One of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons shows two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a blonde human hair on the other and inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"Goodall herself was in Africa at the time. The Jane Goodall Institute thought the cartoon was in bad taste and had its lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate in which they described the cartoon as an "atrocity". They were stymied by Goodall herself: when she returned and saw the cartoon, she stated that she found the cartoon amusing. Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon have gone to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall wrote a preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy, and the institute's letter was included next to the cartoon in the complete Far Side collection. She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behaviour of humans and animals. In 1988, when Larson visited Goodall's research facility in Tanzania, he was attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.

I was sad to learn that Jane Goodall died today, but happy to learn about Gary Larson being attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Well, since you made it so easy, now I'm going to include that paper!

https://www.thefire.org/news/we-are-cancel-culture-part-tragedy-cycle

Image of labubu doll labeled labubu next to image of spiky labubu doll labeled lakiki

::slowly stands while clapping::

Terrific explanation, thank you! I'll be including this video in my class next week as a timely and relevant example of p-hacking.

Apparently I've been singing along with REM correctly all these years

I've included this poem by Joseph Fasano in all of my syllabi this year. It says so much that our students need to hear.

I think about this poem at least once a day. I'm planning to include it in my syllabus statement on academic integrity this semester (with attribution of course).

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

Why don’t you just write a couple of episodes of a sitcom to pay for the private school?

What about a trombone that happens to be broken off?

YouTube video by Rufus The Pink Elephant Johnny Costa plays Won't You be My Neighbor? (1986)

That's pretty great, but for iconic Pittsburgh jazz pianists, how about Johnny Costa? youtu.be/Xx-ncTtaOJY?...

“We’re recording this a day early, so of course something big is going to happen on Thursday.”

You did this!

YouTube video by Infinite Midlives SDCC 2014: Jim Steranko Vs. Bob Kane

Batmin, you should watch this video about Jim Steranko punching Bob Kane. (And what a sweetheart Little Billy Finger was.) youtu.be/fadzZwx85e0

Spoken like a true Rizzlord

That’s a clumsy portmanteau

Too soon

Hope you have a visit from Morpheus the Dream Lord

Jon was a panpsychist before it was cool

Yep, same memory. I was in the kitchen doing dishes, and ended up crouching on the ground with tears streaming down my face, struggling to breathe.

That’s really terrible. I’m so sorry.

His name is Andry Hernandez Romero. He is a young professional from Venezuela. He is a makeup artist. He is a gay man.

Andry was a target for abuse in his homeland of Venezuela. He was viciously humiliated daily — the victim of discrimination for his sexuality. He was also being persecuted for…