This was a really fun post on how identity politics prevented biologists from studying wasps.
“Nations come and go but we, the guardians and creators of knowledge, have existed long before the concept of a nation was invented. I need a passport because it makes traveling easy and not as an object of sappy worship. Participating in the game of “My nation is more moral than your nation” is an embarrassing activity I have no use for.” And I still agree with myself completely.
A post from 2011 on the weirdest conference I’ve ever attended.
One of the posts where I ridiculed a whiny creature for dumping on the concept of graduate studies.
“Can you imagine a patriarch telling his teenage daughter, “You have refused to engage in acts of coprophilia that your boyfriend suggested? How could you? Didn’t I spend my entire life teaching you to just say yes? You are no daughter of mine!”” This one was fun to write.
N and I read the book I reviewed in this post a long time ago. But it had such a strong impact on both of us that we are still discussing it on a regular basis.
My encounter with a descendant of the White Russians.
Here are the results of my investigation into mail-order bride websites.
And on a related note, who is the victim in the mail-order bride business?
Only posts such as the linked one can truly remind one how much technology changes our lives every day. It is unbelievable that the post was only written 3 years ago. The way I do this now is completely different and my own description sounds outdated and frumpy to me.
I still feel bad for how horribly this candidate bombed at his job interview.
Nobody agreed when I said that the #Occupy protests were useless. I guess now we can see who was right. And I still believe that #Occupy’s biggest problem was its extreme dishonesty.
The subject of the post may be outdated but I wrote it while having a really great time at the best conference ever and it still makes me feel good to remember that time.
And this story about the University of Manitoba made me realize that Canadian higher ed was doomed.
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