Over at Inside Higher Ed, they’ve posted a report on the job market in history, which finds that there are more jobs than new Ph.D.’s, but that American and European history are overrepresented in the candidate pool, relative to the number of jobs. It also includes this comment about the number of degreees awarded to… Continue reading History Jobs and Statistics
Author: Chad Orzel
Japan Photo Albums
As a Christmas present for her grandparents, Kate put together a coupld of albums of pictures from our Japan trip, including this shot of What Japanese Commuter Trains Look Like to Me: (That was taken standing up looking straight ahead on a train from Tokyo to Yokohama. The Japanese have the best trains in the… Continue reading Japan Photo Albums
links for 2008-01-02
Pop Culture News: Popdose.com The new group music/ pop culture blog from Jeff Giles, Jason Hare, Py Korry, and others. Future home of Chart Attack! and Adventures Through the Mines of Mellow Gold. Adjust your RSS feeds accordingly. (tags: music culture blogs television movies) The World Question Center 2008 “What have you changed your mind… Continue reading links for 2008-01-02
The Year in Blogging, 2007
Because it’s not science without graphs: That’s the traffic for this blog for 2007. If you integrate the area under the curve, you get a total of 833,275 page views for the year, which is, frankly, kind of astonishing. That’s up from last year’s total of 574,676, so I guess the goal for 2008 is… Continue reading The Year in Blogging, 2007
links for 2008-01-01
Popless Week Zero: Stopping In The Name Of Love | The A.V. Club Noel Murray plans to spend 2008 not listenins to any new music– old songs only. (tags: music review culture) Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: God, Fashion, Affect The hot new books at the… Continue reading links for 2008-01-01
Happy Arbitrary Numerical Signifier
There’s really no global significance to January 1– it’s not even universally acknowledged as the start of a new year– but it’s good now and then to take a little time to reflect on things. As a culture, Americans tend to be fairly bad at this (we’re a low albedo nation), but we’ve built two… Continue reading Happy Arbitrary Numerical Signifier
links for 2007-12-31
The Bush administration’s dumbest legal arguments of the year. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine “3) Alberto Gonzales: I am forced to put the former attorney general into his own category only because were I to attempt to round up his best legal whoppers of the calendar year, it would overwhelm the rest of… Continue reading links for 2007-12-31
links for 2007-12-30
Crooked Timber » » Science, and anti-science, in action The saga of the peppered moth as an example of evolution in action. (tags: biology experiment politics science) Some Road Songs The official government list of songs that mention highways. (tags: music travel US silly society culture) Matthew Yglesias (December 28, 2007) – Predicting CW (Culture)… Continue reading links for 2007-12-30
I’m Chad Orzel, and I Disapprove of These Messages
Kate’s parents live on the New Hampshire side of Boston, and we’re down visiting for the weekend. This morning, I went downstairs with the tablet to do my morning blogroll in front of the tv while Kate slept in. I didn’t really appreciate what being this close to New Hampshire meant for television. Oh. My.… Continue reading I’m Chad Orzel, and I Disapprove of These Messages
links for 2007-12-29
Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: The Identity Studies for Everyone The latest literary-studies fad: Age Studies. (tags: academia literature) village voice > art > Meet the East Village “It” Couple of Young-Adult Lit by Carol Cooper A profile of Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier, whose books… Continue reading links for 2007-12-29