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Academia: Consistency Is Not Equity

The News: One of Those Years

The Problem With AI Is People

Academia: Comfort and Safety

The News: Three Against One

The Photo: Stark

Gastrodome: Stirring the Pot

Substack: Any Club That Would Have Me As a Member

The News: Well, How Did They Get There?

The Photo: Exposed

Gastrodome: I Am Curious, Cumin

Academia: Hearing

The News: Copaganda and Copdata

The Photo: Read On

And Now A Word About Your Sponsor

Academia: I Am the Underminer!

The News: How's That For a Topper?

The Photo: Frozen

Gastrodome: Post-Game Wrap-Up

The Photo: Insectaria

Gastrodome: The Battle Plan

Academia: Consultatively Speaking

The News: The Last Worst Claim

The Photo: Signs of the Times

Gastrodome: Onion Rings to Marshmallows

Academia: Lifeboats to Ocean Liners

A Short Notice About Revision

The News: All the World's a Stage

The Photo: No Rules

Gastrodome: Failure Was an Option

Academia: Enervations

The News: Things In Motion, Things At Rest

The Photo: The Long Halloween

Gastrodome: Chiles Before the Chill

The Play: When Genre, Code and Company Culture Collide, or My Starfield Life

Academia: Technology Histories

The News: It's Not the Bidenomics, Stupid

The Photo: Other Worlds

Gastrodome: Keeping Up the Batting Average

Academia: The Absence of Evidence

The News: Standing for Demanding

Gastrodome: Killer Spaghetti and Chicken Frustration

The Read: Emily Monosson, Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Academia: Counting Karikos

The News: Cause and Affect

The Photo: Shadows and Sky

Gastrodome: Rabbit Season!

The Read: Margaret Talbot, "Behind a Locked Door" and Amanda Hess, "Why I Keep Watching In-Flight Meltdowns"

Academia: Centers, Institutes and Initiatives, Oh My

The News: Assholes Ascendant

The Photo: Mystery Train

Welcome to the Gastrodome

The Read: Navied Mahdavian, This Country: Searching For Home in (Very) Rural America

Academia: Here's What I'm Against: The Ruinous Addiction to Undermotivated Change

The News: I Am Worth More Than The Numbers On My Financial Statements

The Photo: Seeing the Forest, Not the Trees

Cookbook Survivor: Another Rainy Day

The Read: Bullshit and Bagels

Academia: Relatable

The News: Does That Mean What I Think It Means?

The Photo: Color Theory

Vindaloo and Ahsoka Too

Cookbook Survivor: Autumn, When the Living Is Easy

Academia: The Way We Were

The News: And Then What Happened?

The Photo: The Power of Suggestion

Cookbook Survivor: Dinner Decisions

The Read: Peter Turchin, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

Academia: The Side Pot

The News: Life During Wartime

The Photo: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

On a Wing and a Prayer

Cookbook Survivor: Winging It

Academia: Myths and Mysteries in Histories

The News: No Noises For Bongo

The Photo: Life From Both Sides Now

Cookbook Survivor: December in August

The Read: A Presentation on Reading in College

Academia: Brain Surgery Versus the Filter

The News: Henchmen on the Monster Ride

The Photo: Look to the East

The Double Consciousness of Devotion

Cookbook Survivor: Do We Dare to Eat Peaches?

Academia: Being There, Dollars and Cents Edition

The News: The Human Stain

Academia: History 8B The History of South Africa (Shifting Themes Edition)

The News: Popularity Contests

The Photo: Made in the Shade

Ad Hominem

Cookbook Survivor: It's Not You, It's Me

The Read: Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Academia: Histories of Black Capitalism

The News: When Failure Is Not an Option

The Photo: Night Walk

The Watch: Strange New Worlds, Season 2

Academia: Crouching Tigers, Visible Dangers

The News: I Have Questions

The Photo: Ready For My Close-Up

Dare Not to Know

Cookbook Survivor: Second Times and The Ten Worst Instructions

The Read: Joseph Earl Thomas, Sink

Academia: Conduct Unbecoming

The News: Try This In a Small Town

The Photo: Revival

Impostors Are Us

Cookbook Survivor: Tamale or Not Tamale

The Read: Ed Yong, An Immense World

Academia: The Absence of Intelligent People Talking Intelligently

The News: War! What Is It Good For?

The Photo: Relished By The Wisest Men

Our Lives in the Bush of Ghosts

The Read: Being Informed Doesn't Always Help

Academia: Who Knows What Potential Lurks in the Hearts of Students? The Professor Knows. (Maybe.)

The News: Empires, Nations and Sovereignty

4 Days of July 4

On the Affirmative Action Decision

Academia: Do This One Thing!

The News: Nanny Knows Best

The Photo: Ordinary

Rational Protagonists, Irrational Stories, Conspiracy Thinking

The Read: Christopher I. Beckwith, The Scythian Empire

Academia: Under the Influence

The News: A Tale of Two Drownings

The Photo: East Passyunk, Philadephia

The Blindspot Thesis And Social Media

Andy Baraghani, The Cook You Want to Be Redux (Father's Day Edition)

The Read: Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

Academia: Bless This Mess?

The News: Tunnel Vision

The Photo: Assignments

Graduation + Berlusconi + Business as Institution

The Photo: Danger! Danger!

Weekend Cooking + Being the Stranger

Academia: Once More Into the Breach (Textbook Edition)

The News: Tournament Economies

Cookbook Survivor: The No-Fail Recipe

Academia: Mind the Gap

The News: Acting Within, Acting Upon

The Photo: Photoshoppery

Cookbook Survivor: Building a Big Meal

The Read: University Whodunits (Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close; Richard White, Who Killed Jane Stanford?)

Academia: Back to Basics

The News: Kudzu Is A Full-Time Job

The Photo: Misty Morning

The (Possible) Play: Generative AI and Virtual Worlds

Academia: Harm, Unquestioned

The News: Precedent Unpresident

The Photo: Against the Black

Jerusalem + Judgment + Judged

Cookbook Survivor: Yottam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, Jerusalem

The Read: Will Bunch, After the Ivory Tower Falls

Academia: Sleight-of-Hand

The News: History Scores and Fighting White Men

The Photo: Selfies

Cookbook Survivor: New York Times Cooking App, Chicken Schwarma

The Read: Porting over "Making Scholarship"

Academia: Time Is Money, Friend

The News: All the Things He Wasn't and Know Thy Customer

The Photo: Framed

Steamed Buns + Avoid the Wok Shop + Maybe Courses (The Cinema of Adaptation)

Cookbook Survivor: Eileen Yin-Fei Lo, Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking

The Watch: Picard

Academia: No, I Won't Email My Students + Peer Review Redux + Teaching Study Skills

The News: No Exit

The Photo: The Early Bird

Stuffed Flounder + Here We Go Again

Cookbook Survivor: Pierre Franey, 60 Minute Gourmet

The Unread: What Classification Protects

Academia: Skills That Make The Bills

The News: Climb Your Hills Slowly. Then You Don't Have to Die on Them.

Join me on Notes

The Photo: Brooding

Ham and Sides + Misdirects and Leaks + Hillsdale

Academia: The Goat's Lesson

The News: The Rules of the Game

The Photo: Frog Prince

A Sandwich Worth Eating + Indifference + Why the Moon?

Cookbook Survivor: Katharine Kegel, Cafe Pasqual's Cookbook

Academia: Quality Control

The News: Water Water Everywhere

The Photo: Out Like a Lamb

Tortilla Soup + Puss in Boots + Democracy at Stake

Cookbook Survivor: Melissa Clark, Dinner

The Read: Anna Badkehn, Bright Unbearable Reality

Academia: It's All Your Fault! (Never-Trumper Edition)

The News: Follow the Science, Into Confusion?

The Photo: Objective

St Patrick's Dinner + The Cycle Begins Anew + Happiness and Helplessness

Academia: Institutionality is the Thief of Joy

The News: Hostage Crisis

The Photo: Wee Thing

Cookbook Survivor Resolution + Eric Adams + Agnes Callard

Cookbook Survivor: Rose Carrini, Breakfast Lunch Tea: The Many Little Meals of Rose Bakery

Academia: What Went Up Now Comes Down

The News: Helplessly Devoted to True

The Photo: Men at Work

Cookbook Survivor Resolution + "All Quiet" + Men and Doctors + The Checklist Manifesto

Cookbook Survivor: Another Visit to the Grand Central Market

Academia: The Harms of Harm

The News: It's His Turn to Fail

The Photo: Mermaid

Cookbook Survivor Resolution + Readings

Cookbook Survivor: Adele Yellin and Kevin West, The Grand Central Market Cookbook: Cuisine and Culture From Downtown Los Angeles

Academia: Trust Busters

The News: Known Unknowns

The Photo: Look At What I Can Do!

Cookbook Survivor Resolution + Quantumania

Cookbook Survivor: J. Kenji López-Alt, The Wok

Academia: Sadism In the Highest

The News: Increment and Event

The Photo: The Classroom

At Least the Dip Was Good + "The Woman King"

The News: Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They Do. (Well, Actually...)

The Photo: Sisyphus in the Garden

Cookbook Aftermath + Monday Potshots

Cookbook Survivor Revival: The Frog/Commissary Cookbook

The Read: Imani Perry, South to America

Academia: My Favorite Failure

The News: Moves on the Chessboard

The Photo: Passing By

Cookbook Thriving Resolution

Cookbook Thriving: Alex Stupak and Jordana Rothman, Tacos: Recipes and Provocations

Academia: Incubating the Therani

The News: False Equivalency Is a Hell of a Drug

The Photo: The Things You'll See

Cookbook Survivor Resolution (Tender Mercies Edition)

Cookbook Survivor: Sean Brock, South (Round 3)

The Read: My Attention Switch

Academia: Speech Down, Speak Up

The News: The Golden Goose Murder Squad (Hasbro Edition)

The Photo: The Kid Enters the Picture

History Is Made by the Losers

Cookbook Survivor Resolution: Southern Discomfort

Cookbook Survivor: Sean Brock, South

The Read: Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels

Academia: A Follower's Desires

The News: After the Emergence

The Photo: On Top of the World

Doctor Who Companions: Rhoda Strong Lowry

Cookbook Survivor Resolution: Swing and a Miss

Cookbook Survivor: Sean Brock, South

Academia: The Roots of Careerism

The News: Long Games and Sudden Death

The Photo: Something In the Way They Move

The Re-Watch: Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation