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Saving the Humanities, Gangnam Style
So, this was on Glee Thursday night: Which made me think it’s high time we commissioned some time use studies to see just how much time has been spent across the dying globe watching or producing...
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2012: The Year in Madness
Oh, thank god there wasn’t a total blackout from December 23-25, 2012 due to “an alignment of the universe.” If that had happened, I would have had to kill a LOT of people. This blog was born halfway...
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Excellence WITH Money: Or, Dreaming While Academic
If you are bored senseless by the details of other peoples’ dreams, move along. If, on the other hand, you are a caring, sensitive person who realizes that literary critics have dreams that are finely...
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Tab Overload Disorder
Tab overload is a real thing in the virtual world. It’s what happens when you spend your days skimming, clicking, reading, and thinking, “Oh, that’s interesting. I’ll finish reading it later. Maybe...
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Take This Job and Shove It
A (Not Going) Back to School Post No, not me. Y’all know I’m too attached to things like food and my pretty house to walk away from lifetime job security, even in the dying world of American higher...
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Random Bullets of Holy Crap It’s October?
How to Lose the Interwebz: Follow up your most ridiculously popular post ever (thank you, Twitters!) with a solid month of the blogging equivalent of this! And watch your hits go from the stratosphere...
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Random Bullets of Post-Thanksgiving Mellowness
Still cooking . . . . Photo Credit: The Madwoman, 11/30/13 The carcass of the bird is on the stove (or was, last night, when I began this post), simmering down into a stock for a soup we’ll eat for a...
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On Boycotts
Channeling blog pal Historiann, The Madwoman prepares to get off the fence and take a stand. With, you know, mixed feelings and lots of qualifiers. I have, until now, avoided writing on the controversy...
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Advice for (Virtual and Actual) Life: Don’t Be a Butthead
Profiles in Science from the National Library of Medicine. Poster for a 1998 anti-tobacco campaign by the Centers for Disease Control. Original Repository: The History of Medicine Division. Prints and...
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A Love Letter to My New Job
Or, A Labor Day Post Quite Different from Last Year’s Labor Day reflections. Western Maryland 4-H Education Center. Photo Credit: The Madwoman, 8/31/14. The summer of 2014 has been long and strange for...
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