I have been rereading it.
It's uhhh... really topical.
"Society has a profound need for humanistic knowledge. But there is no political movement in support of the academic humanities in public education on the political Left." asheeshksi.substack.com/publish/post...
Everyone who cares abt teaching, learning, critical & historical thinking should read & repost this piece. My faculty & student group chats have been trading/talking abt it all day. @johnfea1.bsky.social brought many of us to tears. He speaks for us in sorrow & in glory. We grieve & we hope.
Your moment of industrial zen
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The local Polski Sklep has kimchi in their pickle fridge. Globalisation is beautiful.
A timely reminder to #Skystorians and others who care about the #RuleOfLaw. In the short or long run … HISTORIANS ALWAYS WIN. We name the names. We break the silences. We expose pasts that are neither dead nor even past. We write the wrongs. And we always win. Always.
In a field near Wicken, Cambridgeshire larkspur is grown for London florists along with cornflowers & Nigella. It’s quite a sight just now-some floral dopamine for you 🌿:
Move over, elephant graveyards - this whale necropolis extends 1,200km along the Indian Ocean seafloor at depths from 4,600-7,000m; has accumulated at least 476 fossil whale carcasses over the past 5m years; and has 5 active whale falls. Paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Republicans are awful, but the other side isn't actually that much better - yet.
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...
RIP Gordon Wood, whose “Creation,” p.562, is worth a reread any day, esp. today: “the Federalists fixed the terms for the future discussion of American politics …. and created a distinctly American political theory but only at the cost of eventually impoverishing later American political thought.”
RIP Gordon Wood, whose “Creation,” p.562, is worth a reread any day, esp. today: “the Federalists fixed the terms for the future discussion of American politics …. and created a distinctly American political theory but only at the cost of eventually impoverishing later American political thought.”
