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useful for Ludicrous Cultures class tomorrow (at University of Denver station)
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my students and I co-authored the José Jiménez test for characters in LatinX SciFi and Futurism today. It was a participatory mid-term. Hat tips to Mako Mori test and to the Bechdel test. Named for the Bill Dana comedy bit about the first LatinX in space from 1961. Hat tip to Rick Griffith for that…
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lace weight wool for next beanie(s) (at The Quarter Stitch)
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forty-nine years ago when I lived in NOLA (at Jackson Square)
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when I surprise her (at French Quarter – CBD, New Orleans, Louisiana)
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memento mori (at Lafayette Cemetery No. 1)
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Royal Sonesta Hotel, because my dad was field engineer on the construction in the late 1960s. Bourbon Street is currently having some work done. (at French Quarter – CBD, New Orleans, Louisiana)
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The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks
The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks kenyatta: Traditional definitions of the state and its authority hinged on the right to raise taxes, and on its legal monopoly on coercing its people, from punishing and imprisoning them to waging formal war. But as James Scott points out, roughly between 8000…
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Plenty of Work, Not Enough Pay
stoweboyd: One of the most troubling unresolved issues in modern economics is the continued lack of wage increases even as unemployment has dropped to under 5%. This is a worldwide phenomenon and appears to be linked to a number of intertangled factors, like the decline of unions and collective bargaining, the rise of freelancing and outsourced…
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npr: Cookie Monster is all wound up. The Count has him hold up his furry blue fingers, count them (of course), and blow on each one in turn as if he were blowing out a birthday candle. Afterward, Cookie declares, in his familiar growly voice, that he feels much better. “Hey! Me feel terrific! Me…