When the novel’s protagonist-narrator receives a telegram from Saigon, carrying news that her younger brother has been killed at twenty-seven, she receives the news as a kind of mistake, a “momentary error” eclipsing the universe, filling her soul with outrage…
Leaning on his training as an etymologist — that is, an evolutionary biologist for the living organism of language — Thomas adds: With his pliant logic and playful love of the human condition, Thomas considers the reflexive conclusion to which…
I believe, though, that this argument, though compelling, is ultimately mistaken. There are three reasons why. We are already seeing, as always, a sharp distinction being drawn between civilian and combatant casualties in Ukraine, as if it matters, morally, which…
“The innovation of this approach is that it allows us to create scientifically accurate artwork for the metaverse without overcommitting to details where we still lack good fossil evidence,” William Swartout, chief technology officer at the University of Southern California…
He also calls for the university, in its search for a new president, to select someone who “believe[s] in and [has] a demonstrated commitment to Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions.” You can read his essay here. The Academic Freedom Alliance…
“The goal here is to be able to provide space for people to share more context and color about how these experiences have helped them grow and develop skills that are valuable in life and at work,” said Camilla Han-He,…
Something about this entire endeavor is making me think of The Golden Record — Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s poetic gesture to the cosmos, which traveled aboard the Voyager spacecraft into the great unknown. The Golden Record had two purposes.…
Philosophy journal editors, can you help us out? What we’re looking for is the referee request acceptance rate. That is, what percentage of the potential referees you ask to referee a paper agree to do so? (For our purposes let’s, if…
Explore movies, games, superheroes and more with CNET Culture. Delivered Tuesdays and Fridays. HBO Max Before we see what the implications of that are, we’re warped back to Lexi’s play. Cassie, freshly dumped by Nate, makes her way onstage and…
Daniel provided the following links: He also notes that friends of his have created a website which includes suggestions for donations and other ways of contributing to and supporting the Ukrainians: standwithukraine.how. Daniel (Daniil) M. Ozernyi of Northwestern University writes:…
Google-owned YouTube reportedly prohibited Russian state-owned media outlet RT and other Russian channels from making money off of ads on the video site. Facebook had made a similar move on Friday, banning Russian state media from running ads or monetizing…
We have recently revised our major, precisely in response to declining enrollments, in ways that we believed would preserve our FTEs and fill rates when they began dropping across the college. Those revisions have been largely successful as, again, the…