Jon Nichols

Mysterious UFO-shaped 'Dorito' aircraft spotted over Area 51 A videographer said he spotted an unusual UFO over the notorious Area 51 military base - the alleged flying object was dubbed a 'Dorito'

It’s a tabloid.
The pic is obviously a jet aircraft due to the contrail.
I’m just hoping they keep the name “the Dorito.”

Investigating the Star That Almost Vanished for Eight Months Stars change in brightness for all kinds of reasons, but all of them are interesting to astronomers at some level. So imagine their excitement when a star known as J0705+0612 (or, perhaps more politic...

“Circumsecondary disks happen when a disk of gas and dust forms around a second object in a binary system, which then occults the first, dramatically dropping its brightness over a period of time.”

A Fascinating Look At 17 Of The World's Deepest Underground Structures Get acquainted with our Earth's deepest man-made structures.

If you should feel like going underground.

It sounds like something out of a science fiction series, but it's real: at just 15 years old, Laurent Simons has already completed a PhD and is now researching how to defeat aging with artificial int... At 15, most teenagers are worrying about exams or learning to drive. Belgian researcher Laurent Simons has already defended a PhD in quantum physics at the

Like I don’t already have enough problems with inadequacy.

#writingstudies #cdnwrds #teamrhetoric

Trisha Donnelly’s Mysteries

“Some of the objects in these look like pieces of driftwood, bones (Georgia O’Keeffe’s “pelvis” paintings of dried-out animal skeletons come to mind), ragged textile fragments or ectoplasm, that amorphous substance ostensibly secreted during Victorian-era occult seances.”

Face to Face With History’s Most Dangerous Painter (Gift Article) Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Were economics not a reality and I could do truly anything with my life, I would do nothing but earn degrees. One of those degrees would be art history.

Guess I’ll go to sleep.
It will still be awful in the morning.

Radioactive commies.
The worst kind!
#metvsuperman

What in those spores made McCoy turn into that “you might be a redneck” guy? #metvstartrek

And…yet again…a young Tim Burton was somewhere taking notes.
#metvbatman

That too.
#Svengoolie

Japanese cinema really doesn’t get any better than this.
#Svengoolie

So thankful for #Svengoolie
Gets my mind off…stuff.

Clear the air lanes!
#Svengoolie

Saturday night on MeTV- it’s the original battle of the behemoths- in the epic encounter “King Kong VS Godzilla”! (Note- due to contract stipulations for Kong/Godzilla, “Fiend Without a Face” will air on streaming platforms) 8 pm eastern/pacific,7 central.

Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States [Nichols, Jonathan, Colbert, Kate] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States

It’s #selfpromotionsaturday
My book “Requiem for a College” tells my story of surviving a college closure while presenting research explaining why this trend of closures is hitting small colleges everywhere.
#selfpromosaturday
#academicsky
#writer

Notes on the student essay from a classic, Womack, "What Are Essays For?," 1993:

The essay is "a culturally specific form of communication which has not always existed, and which depends for its existence now on some quite definite institutional contexts" /1

#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds

Because it’s art about the present, that’s why.

William Turner of Oxford (1789 – 1862)
Donati's Comet painted 1858-59

The shish kebab scene is *chef’s kiss.*

This is Bell Biv DeVoe.
Their manifesto is inspiring my pitch for my next book:
“My book is mentally literary, smoothed out on the comp-rhet tip with a pop media studies feel appeal.”
#academicsky
#literary
#comprhet
#teamrhetoric
#mediastudies
#bellbivdevoe

Illustration from "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Alan Poe Collection" odddot.com/books/sticker-jigsaw-the-edgar-allan-poe-collection illustration shows vignettes of Poe's life.

Illustration from "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Alan Poe Collection" odddot.com/books/sticker-jigsaw-the-edgar-allan-poe-collection Illustration from "Annabel Lee" showing lovers embracing on a rocky coast

Illustration from "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Alan Poe Collection" odddot.com/books/sticker-jigsaw-the-edgar-allan-poe-collection illustration shows a bisection of the Usher mansion with several rooms and the crypt.

Illustration from "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Alan Poe Collection" odddot.com/books/sticker-jigsaw-the-edgar-allan-poe-collection illustration from "Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man tied to a stone slab watching a blade swing over him. Rats chew the ropes.

Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, born on this day 1809 🫀🐈‍⬛💀

Here are some of the illustrations I made for the Poe sticker book for Macmillan Books in 2024

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@profjoefeagin.bsky.social thanks so much for the repost!

If you’d rather not shop Amazon, the book is also available at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million.
#academicsky

Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States [Nichols, Jonathan, Colbert, Kate] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States

Tomorrow I start a new semester.
I’m lucky.
Employees and students from colleges who closed last year don’t have that privilege.
My book tells the story of what it’s like to go through a closing, and why the trend is happening.
#academicsky
#writer

If only they had the budget to turn Jimmy into a turtle.
IYKYK
#metvsuperman

After Flight 7500, these Superman episodes read like Moliere. #MeTVSuperman