John Kuhn

I think about this a lot. My students don’t want to read in sustained or long-form ways, but I do think they produce and consume more text every day than any humans in the history of time.

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

the writer of JAWS wanted to include in the ads that Fidel Castro called it a great condemnation of American capitalism

A monarch caterpillar looking like its posing with a flower

Bug posed for a Sears style portrait

If I ever got a cat I would name it President Nixon, so that whenever it napped I could say "President Nixon is resting"

"ravioli are savory gushers" "is a hot dog a sandwich or a taco" "a poptart is a sweet ravioli" do you think your games played in the dichotomous key of god's creation bring you closer to him? In your heart, is there a voice claiming that organization is how you apprehend creation? Cleanse your soul

The aggrieved tone in this headline really makes it feel like it was written by someone from Philly

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance.

In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

canoeing/portaging in the Adirondacks with some friends and I have many pitiless statistics ready about how much weight workers carried during the 17th century fur trade, ready to recite to myself when I’m tempted to whine(180 lbs per person…& some portages were miles long and/or basically vertical)

I really enjoy these 17th c gravestone threads!

Like…Murdoch seems to be really interested in the gap between moral knowledge and moral action, I guess

I like how a lot of it is about Dora often understanding moral or social dilemmas but just sort of helplessly not being able to react appropriately to them.

Sometimes I feel like I always go straight for Central Difficult Masterpiece and when I can’t immediately get into it, feel unfairly alienated from the author. Like when I tried to read The Golden Bowl!!!

Dutch history people!

I would like to be!

I know people love Iris Murdoch but I have bounced off The Sea, The Sea no fewer than three times in my adult life, and dropped it after 50 pages each time. I’m now taking a new tack and reading The Bell instead and enjoying it a lot more.

So excited to see that this translation, by the wonderful Kathleen Long, is coming out!!!

@marselykehoe.bsky.social the Bengali textile workers talk looks right up ur alley

Future murderer lol

Real Catherheads know that it’s her masterpiece!

Trigger warning: contains vivid portrayal of depressed male academic

from The Professor's House, an incredible banger of a novel that everyone should read!

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."

--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

hahaha Campus Instructional Facility is so good.

A search-field in the database "Early English Books Online" has the word "Three" typed into it; the suggested auto-fills are "three6mafi, three ages of the automobile, three ages of man, and three against hitler. None of these are relevant to a person who studies the 16th and 17th centuries.

Proquest has really ruined the database I use daily. The suggestions for searches have real "face that's known texting" vibes. This is a database of texts printed prior to 1800.

YouTube video by BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Carol Klein's Desert Island Plants

will some British person please tell me what Carol Klein's accent is? It is so charming

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save it for himbofeed SHEESH

upon reflection, it's possible that "Try getting that deal at Columbia" should be the motto for our entire excellent yet very reasonably priced state school, whose tuition is capped at $10k a year!

I'm just saying that if you are a rich person dreaming of having a building named after you, Binghamton has literally DOZENS of unnamed, undistinguished-looking 1960s buildings just crying out for your munificence! For cheap, probably! Try getting that deal at Columbia!

Binghamton didn't join the system until 1950. An amusing side effect of this is that we have correspondingly fewer alumni & thus almost no buildings are named after rich people. Instead they are all named things like LECTURE HALL. The science buildings are literally Science I, Science 2, Science 3