Tag Archives: education
Sunday Scraps 57
1. GEOGRAPHY: Lovely essay by Ciara Flynn at Thought Catalog about the lure of a geographic change when you’re looking to jumpstart your life. 2. CULTURE: Should you check your email? Here’s a flowchart, but I’ll cut to the chase: … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Hollywood, Media, Really Good Writing by Other People
Oh, for the love of education
Meet Virginia Foxx. Sadly, I couldn’t find a porn star who shared her name, and trust me, I looked. Come on, internet, help a sister out! Virginia Foxx is a Republican Congresswoman from North Carolina. She is also the chairwoman on … Continue reading
“Devastating”
“Why don’t we just be honest with them [students] and be upfront that sex outside marriage is devastating?” said Rep. Bill Holden (R) of the Utah House of Representatives. I know I just wrote about this, but good God it … Continue reading
I want to be an arrogant, self-aggrandizing jerk or a pompous blowhard!
Four people sent me this essay by Clay Shirkey, “A Rant About Women.” It’s from January 2010, but in one of the peculiar patterns of internet popularity, it made its way to my desk last week. Shirkey is a professor … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Gender, Really Good Writing by Other People
Sunday Scraps 45
1. TIM: Interview with Tim Gunn in Mother Jones about his childhood, his It Gets Better spot, and consistently being the best thing about Project Runway. 2. PEGGY: Watch Peggy Orenstein (author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter) on Anderson Cooper’s … Continue reading
Filed under Advertising, Body Image, Books, Education, Gender, Media
Meryl + Ellen + Deborah
Does it get any better than this? When Meryl tarted talking about the first woman to take a bullet for the United States, I had a sudden and overpowering urge to raise my hand and shout “Call on me! Call … Continue reading
Identify Your Ick Factor
Is your “ick factor” keeping you from advancing in your job? Do you disgust people on a regular basis? Have you noticed that your colleagues involuntarily shudder when you walk by? Does everybody avoid you? If so, this seminar is … Continue reading
Bill Nye on Institutionalized Ignorance
Everyone can relax, Bill Nye is here, and he speaks the truth. We’re in good hands. When did Disney go from amazing be-wigged science geekery like this to a line-up of shows featuring interchangable tweens who fill in for each … Continue reading
Are Millennial Ladies Quitters?
I can barely even begin to enumerate the red flags in this Forbes piece “Why Millennial Women Are Burning Out At Work By 30″. In addition to the oddly capitalized title, the piece, by Larissa Faw, cites such rigorous sources … Continue reading
Priorities?
Pretty much sums up my feelings about Penn State right now: I didn’t used to have a poor impression of Penn State. I know some pretty cool people that went there, and I’m perfectly confident that there are a lot … Continue reading
