An interview with Schmidtke about her new biography of Hedwig Klein, an erudite philologist and contributor to Hans Wehr's dictionary. The Nazi regime murdered many Jewish scholars of Islam like Klein and displaced countless others. Their contributions may never be known
www.ias.edu/ideas/conver...
Screenshot of 璇璣圖 'The Star Gauge', a grid of 841 Chinese characters arranged in a 29x29-character square that can be read in different ways to yield about 3,000 smaller poems, written by the fourth-century poet 蘇蕙 Su Hui for her husband.
you brought "go hang a salami" to a palindrome fight
"The true story—of a young Jewish scholar of extraordinary gifts who kept doing rigorous scholarly work even as her world was collapsing around her—is far more compelling than any distorted version could ever be."
An interview with Schmidtke about her new biography of Hedwig Klein, an erudite philologist and contributor to Hans Wehr's dictionary. The Nazi regime murdered many Jewish scholars of Islam like Klein and displaced countless others. Their contributions may never be known
www.ias.edu/ideas/conver...
Back briefly to say: Ban "deploy" from academic prose, unless it's specifically about nations deploying troops. I just read a sentence about a vegetable being "deployed" as an agent of cultural identity, ffs.
I do not think I will last long here; this was an exceptionally good two weeks not to be on social media :/
Back briefly to say: Ban "deploy" from academic prose, unless it's specifically about nations deploying troops. I just read a sentence about a vegetable being "deployed" as an agent of cultural identity, ffs.
I’m going to deactivate for a few months to focus on work! Maybe when I come back, the news will be less bleak
This archive is produced by a group of academics to honor and commemorate these lives and those of the many other teachers and researchers in higher education murdered in Gaza during the genocide perpetrated by Israel and its patrons, especially the United States. They were members of the global intellectual community, and we are all impoverished by the loss of their contributions that would have enriched the worlds of the humanities and sciences. The liquidation of these colleagues squandered the many years of higher education and training they embodied, often acquired with great personal and collective effort. The death of so many of our colleagues is a massive blow to higher education in Palestine: they were the teachers of the rising generation who were to take their places as the writers, theologians, social scientists, engineers, and doctors who would help to weave the social fabric and develop the world of knowledge in Palestine. We record their lives in a spirit of grief for their loss and admiration for their accomplishments and to demand that their killers face accountability for their crimes.
REMEMBERING GAZA SCHOLARS A group of academics have spent the past 18 months creating an archive that commemorates the lives of Palestinian scholars killed by Israel. 83 of our colleagues, so far, have bios; the group's work continues rememberinggazascholars.org
I noticed it in the episode with Baker and Kornbluh as well. I don't know how common that approach is with podcasts that have academic guests, but it was very meaningful to have it stated out loud as part of the podcast.
Late to the game, perhaps, but the whole two hours are worth listening to.
Side note: I appreciate the host’s encouragement to guests to speak freely in the moment and ask later to have things edited out if they’d like. It‘s much easier not to self-edit in the moment if you have that assurance!
I recognize there is a complicated taxonomy for what the different color heart emojis mean but I'm drawing a line in the sand on that one and refusing to learn. A man has to have a code.
Ne-Yo in shambles
Please, no, I already lived through "Will Americans eat more vegetarian food if it looked more like meat," and it resulted in the Impossible-ification of all veggie burgers. I can't do this again with seafood.
Doctor: *says my name* Am I saying that right?
Me: *pronounces my name the way I pronounce it*
Doctor: *tries again, gives up* Oh never mind, I won’t get it right anyway. People mispronounce my name all the time, so it’s really important to me to get patients‘ names right.
Me: Is that…what this was?
“We are all dragging ourselves along, trying to keep up with whatever version of normalcy has been reconstructed each day. We are weeping and writing emails. We are watching television and scrolling, alternately hiding and spiraling, but rarely grieving as we should. Rarely living fully in the reality of now, because that would mean killing the zombie dressed up as an ordinary Tuesday, and we do not know how to do that yet. Or maybe we’re just not ready." — Kelly Hayes
"We are at war, and thousands of people are dead. We are at war, and we are complaining about high gas prices and long lines at the airport. We are at war, and running late for our next appointment." organizingmythoughts.org/the-zombie-d...
Let's remember some of history's best analog posters
Martin Luther
Confucius
Equality Phil
This sounds great
"Fahmida Riaz transports readers to fifth-century Ctesiphon, the zenith of the Sasanian Empire... follows Mazdak, the first socialist revolutionary in history, as he challenges the power structures of his time, attempting to bring about a more fair and just society."
How about busses that arrive early? How is anyone supposed to plan for that??
people who hear a researcher describe a problem they've not been able to solve and immediately think "i'm going to enter this into chatgpt and send this person the results," what's going through your beautiful mind?
worried cat at window seat at night looking worried
he wants occurrences to please stop occurring
Hopefully they didn't install Claude Code on their computer last week, or I'll be out of luck
An elite OK tomb, or a top-tier Mid Kingdom tomb
It is a Dropbox link. I hope to track down an email for the person and ask if they still have the file
tfw you find a 2013 blogpost comments section about the exact problem you're trying to solve, and a commenter says they've prepared a presentation on this very topic, and then the link is dead
I spoke to another mother, Griselda, picked up in Florida on her way to work. She was sent to ICE detention in Texas by herself even though she said she told agents about her 1-yr-old US citizen and 4-yr-old, who were with a babysitter. Their separation lasted four months. 4/
Page of text with sentence underlined in pencil: “For I conceived this book in February 1922, did the necessary reading for it by the end of March, and turned the final draft over to the publisher in June, in time to read the proofs before I sailed for Europe toward the end of July.”
Was feeling really good about my recent writing output until I came across this in Lewis Mumford:
Wait what? Who says that?
My kingdom for a murder mystery that doesn't give away the plot by casting exactly one high-profile cast member who would obviously not be in this film just to be somebody's aunt.
When I hear french people loudly fighting on the street, for some reason I always assume it’s about philospohy.