Category: Links Dump

Kung Fu Hustle | Film | The New Cult Canon | The A.V. Club “Stephen Chow seems to understand the limits and potential of CGI action better than anyone. If CGI is fundamentally inadequate in giving realistic action the same punch it has with real stunts and practical effects, then why not go completely in… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-15

James Burleigh Morton › at museums, he is allowed to touch the art One of Union’s Watson Fellows from last year, blogging his trip around the world taking pictures of international shipping. (tags: world travel academia awards pictures business blogs) Out of the Kitchen and Into the Fire | Exploring Open-Fire Cooking Around the World… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-14

Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex « OkTrends “Gay issues have been in the news a lot lately, from the debate over same-sex marriage in Congress to a sickening rash of gay-bashing here in New York City. We see a lot of emotion out there, instead of information, and we wanted to provide some data-based context… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-13

Pimp My Novel: Here Be Dragons “[Myth:] Amazon is going to kill the independent/second-hand book store. While I can’t say for sure this is 100% false, I’m very confident that Amazon will not kill independent, local, and second-hand book stores; there’s no substitute for their ambience, knowledgeable staff, and propensity to stock hard-to-find titles. In… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-12

YouTube – Sesame Street: Smell Like A Monster The monster your monster could smell like. (tags: youtube video kid-stuff silly)

Goodnight to Goodnight Moon? « Easily Distracted “When experts in education, childhood, psychology, economics, what have you, venture forth into the public sphere to say that our schools are failing to do something utterly essential, or that tomorrow’s children must absolutely have some skill that they do not have now, or that oh my GOD… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-09

A Nobel prize for levitating a frog – The Dayside “Unlike the graphene discovery, frog levitation hasn’t begotten a vast worldwide research effort whose fruits include thousands of research papers and scores of patents. Nevertheless, as Novoselov recounted in an interview with ScienceWatch, the two projects have something in common: ‘The style of Geim’s lab… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-08

Career Advice: Rules for Science Job Talks – Inside Higher Ed “4. Give a strong, conceptually oriented introduction. Be as brief as possible while still making all of your points. Be sharp at the beginning. Remember the 20 Minute Rule: You should show a data slide no more than 20 minutes into your talk (or… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-07

Trains on the moon: John M. Ford’s Growing Up Weightless / Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts “At the heart of John M. Ford’s Growing Up Weightless (1993) is a train trip by a group of teenaged roleplayers across the far side of the moon. It’s also the story of how thirteen… Continue reading Links for 2010-10-06

YouTube – John Orzel – Treading Water My uncle’s tv ad for his NY State Senate campaign. (tags: politics video television new-york youtube) Americans Are Horribly Misinformed About Who Has Money – Politics – GOOD In other news, the Sun rose in the east today. (tags: class-war politics statistics society culture education math us blogs)