Monthly Archives: May 2024
Tate Modern Gallery
turns 24 today
The Tate Modern Gallery in London, England was opened on this day – May 11 – in 2000.
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Campus Life at the
University of California – Riverside
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Norse and Viking mythology have played a large role in the far right, just as they did for the Nazis. The Norse were people of conquest, rape, and pillage, at least in the popular imagination. That the right, which has long marched under the banner of Christian values, is beginning to embrace pagan symbols ought to be deeply troubling.
~ David Wolpe via The Atlantic
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Five American Universities with Interesting Wikipedia Entries
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In a world that otherwise values competition, effort, and merit, the British have allowed their state to be governed by the purest chance. It seems like a formula for disaster. Instead, it has produced 350 years of constitutional stability.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at the
University of Manchester
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There are no holidays for art; and that’s just fine with the artist.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed.
~ John Steinbeck
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It is clear by now that the mental-health crisis has changed academia forever: its structures, its culture and the function it is expected to perform in American society. More than half of American college students now report depression, anxiety or seriously considering suicide. This is a problem that reaches across geography, race, class, identity, institutional resources or prestige and academic ability. Almost one in four Americans in college considered dropping out in the last year because of their mental health. Adjusting pedagogy to account for this scale of illness and, in some cases, disability, is the new frontier of postsecondary education.
~ Jordan Kisner via The New York Times Magazine
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