The day after Election Day, the African American Policy Forum hosted Educators Ungagged: Teaching Truth in the Era of Racial Backlash. The panel featured educators who’ve been forced out of schools (PDF on the educators), including principal Dr. James…
chart junk? more like chart hunk!!!
Declutter and Focus. This is your data viz mission, if you choose to accept it. A study on effective data communication (aka chart design) from the Visual Thinking Lab at Northwestern University via Policy Viz
The golem is the prom king of Jewish monsters, everyone knows its name
Some of the most frightening monsters in the Jewish imagination. Deuteronomy mentions that a prediluvian king named Og was the last of the giants, a species that thrived before the flood… but wasn’t all life not in Noah’s ark destroyed during the tor…
“Good vibes only!”
What is spirtual bypassing. “Wellness culture, which often perpetuates ideas of toxic positivity and permanent optimism, is sometimes a driving force behind spiritual bypassing. It teaches people that they cannot be well or healthy unless they are able…
dejaqueveas / waitilyousee
Eleven Poetry Recommendations for Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month. To highlight just three… Raquel Salas Rivera reads “dejaqueveas / waitilyousee.” Valerie Martínez reads from the just published Count, a book-length poem on the heartbreaking reali…
work expectations that that go beyond my scholarly productivity
Roundtable on Academic Ableism. A discussion from Kayden, Krystal, Cait, Nicole of Disabled in Grad School (Oct 2020). Transcript.
Arakanese (ရခိုင်ဘာသာ), also known as Rakhine, a Burmese language
Omniglot, a continuously updated online encyclopedia of languages that’s even older than Metafilter (and a fave on the blue). Yet to be featured here is the weekly language quiz. Do you know or can you guess the language, and do you know where it’s spo…
The critique of everyday life in 15 seconds.
Nayanjyoti’s roundup of proletarian TikTok in India for the political webzine Raiot includes videos of rural workers, workers on the long walk home, workers goofing off, construction workers goofing off, reaction videos, lipsynched labor, and synchroni…
Meanwhile at Daan Forest Park
A human plays a harmonica for two geese. The geese honk appreciatively. Another harmonica performance. As posted on the Instagram account of 奇奇 and 凡凡: “We are a family of ducks and geese living in Daan Forest Park.”
“driven by a very generous motivation to try to find inexpensive cures”
Scientific American’s round-up and run-down of what’s up with Ivermectin. Despite what fringe physicians’ groups recommend — “twice a week for as long as [COVID] risk is elevated” — ivermectin is usually given as a one-time dose when it is used as a …