#kids today
“People say the word ‘hypothermia’ like it’s a bad thing, but…”
Monday Morning Links!
* Paradoxa 32 has a cover.
* Boys don’t read enough.
* The era of high fertility is ending. Every child on their own trampoline. Police-Free Childhoods. The Seismic Generational Shift in Worldview: Millennials Seek a Nation Without God, Bible and Churches.
* Selfies, Surgeries And Self-Loathing: Inside The Facetune Epidemic.
* The Bullshit Jobs Boom.
* The empty brain. Your brain does not…
Friday Links!
Great looking one-day symposium: Queer Utopias.CFP: Camps, (In)justice, and Solidarity in the Americas – Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camps. CFP: Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance. CFP: SFRA Panels at ASLE 21. CFP: Migration and Exile in Science Fiction. CFP: Black Feminism on the Edge. CFP: The Routledge Handbook…
Sunday Reading!
* CFP: Folk Horror. CFP: Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2022.* Four Tiny Essays on SF/F.* The Future Is Black, Not Bleak: On Afrofuturist Poetry.
https://twitter.com/gerrycanavan/status/1483897412611678208
* Notes on Contemporary University Struggles: A Dossier.* The Great Faculty Disengagement: Faculty members aren’t leaving in droves, but they are increasingly pulling away.* Hustling…
Then the skull said: “Kids today, eh?”
“I blame education,” said the raven.
“A lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing,” said the skull. “A lot more dangerous than just a little.”
Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
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Twitter user @/sameoldstory said “One disorienting thing about getting older that nobody tells you about is how weird it feels to get a really passionate, extremely wrong lecture from a much younger person about verifiable historical events you can personally remember pretty well”
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