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We’re both out of town, but here are some links to enjoy in our absence!

Love the graphs on this article showing exactly how many small businesses are affected by Obamacare (hint:  not many).

Femme Frugality discusses the cost of walking.

Izzy mom is sick of lazy spineless parents and their bratty kids.  She says so.

Wandering Scientist with advice on informational interviews.

Mother Jones discusses potential harmful anti-women legislation criminalizing still-births and miscarriages under manslaughter laws.

I want to see this at the zoo.

I waste so much time weighs in on cats vs. dogs.

Get out of there cat.

Wonders and marvels explains how to wear a hoop skirt.

Dominic Deegan had his last comic!

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Modest money asks what procrastination really costs.

We’re thinking of teaching DC1 programming this summer, but how?

Last day to purchase books for donations for this school.  From guyslitwire.

College misery is also irritated by the search for meaning, only this time enforced at work.

Donna Freedman celebrates another anniversary.  She really is famous on the internet!

Mutant Super Model with advice about divorce and separation.  Her google question answers are better than ours.

Delagar with a 19th century history lesson.

Yawning animals from the fw.

The punchline on this docrat comic... if only it worked that way!

Historiann asks what your best title ever is.  Rear admiral?

James Chartrand.  We’re going to do this too one of these days.  (We’ll explain in a future post.)

academicats are awesome.

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I found something awesome in a comment on some far-flung internet corner:  “When I encounter passive voice in essays, after I point out/correct the first instance, I add “by zombies” to the rest–always a hoot.”  I will write BY ZOMBIES.   Yes I will.

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Not of general interest discusses life after tenure.  Also writing houses.

Update:  MineralPhys prof also discusses life after tenure.

We still use the term patriarchy, but we really mean kyriarchy, I think, because with our post-modern definition, the patriarchy oppresses everyone, not just women.  Tiny grain of rice explains intersectionality.

Scalzi linked to another great piece on intersectionality, this time a teaching tool, from the border house.

From The Nation:  Why are we willing to spend so many resources on protecting people from terror and so little protecting them from preventable accidents?

Perhaps the way the rich have been getting so much richer than everyone else may have something to do with it.

NW edible explains how to pick good seedlings.

This Jeff Goldblum interview is adorbable.

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Laura Vanderkam says yes, you can be ambitious and smell the roses too, and Real Simple is hurting women (and being disingenuous) by saying otherwise.

Sometimes you hit a Salon article and end up reading a few more.  Here’s one on wikipedia systematically moving women authors from the main authors page to the women authors subpage.  Fourth grader with argument in support of marriage equality.  Conversion therapy dude apologizes and notes that he’s actually still gay (and that’s ok!).

My mom sent me this NYTimes link about Jane Austen as a game theorist.  She also went to a classics potluck this week and noted that Newmann’s Own has a salad dressing with identical ingredients to what was used in Ancient Rome.  Who knew?  (Apparently my mom did.)

Did you say higgs boson?

Not sure how we feel about this ring.

Wandering Scientist had a couple of good introspective posts this week.  Here’s the first.

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In case you haven’t seen it, this post from the onion pretty well sums up the week.  We have to say, though, the law enforcement responses have been really amazing.  It kind of brings back one’s faith in government… well, in public servants.  Not so much in NRA-sponsored politicians.  They still suck.

Sad about death, destruction, and random bombings? Hit reload at emergency kitten.

A good article from get rich slowly on how financial literacy classes don’t really work.

Fretful porpentine with some awesome art.

Penny-arcade with a really thoughtful strip on gun control.  More from mom-101 on the senate vote.

Bro says, “I guess my baby sister is cool. Or whatever,” from offbeat families.

Offbeat home loves on libraries.

OMG from academic cog.

Reassigned time talks about what life after tenure is like.  We hope more folks will chime in.

Microsoft excel error used in a conference paper to justify economic policy.  (Refereeing would not have found the excel error, btw.)  From arstechnica.

YOU NEED TO SEE THESE PICTURES from buzzfeed THEY ARE VERY IMPORTANT (ed: or have babies and puppies).  On the other hand, just babies.

SBC comics explains how extremists screw up communication.

Not of general interest on being a writer, and Dame Eleanor with a deliberately controversial post on negative spirals/group therapy vs. accountability.

Finally, if you haven’t checked out our Ask the Grumpies from yesterday, TRS could still use some advice (she adds info in the comments, as well).

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In case you were wondering, wikipedia tells me that Spink is another name for Chaffinch.

Lotsa links this week!

Gawker mansplains to mansplainers why women don’t like it when you tell them they’re hot in professional settings.

Delagar with a pic of the cutest new member of the delagar family.  Squee!

How David Carr doesn’t mean to be sexist, but, like many folks, he is.

NIHCM explains health entitlement spending in six charts.

Are you, like me, continually checking xkcd: 1190?  Here’s an automagically updated video version.

Academic cog contemplates Dr. Seuss’s hats of creativity.  I used to have a thinking cap.  I wonder whatever happened to it…

Not of general interest and the chronicle of higher education ask who gives up tenure?  Pretty happy people, apparently.

We wanted to link to MutantSupermodel’s pictures of bookshelves… but just LOOK at what her ex sent one of the kids home in.  I mean, wha?

Single mom rich mom talks about being a scanner.

Tressiemc notes that the advice to not go to graduate school may not be the best advice for underrepresented minorities.  Part of this advice I’ve thought about in terms of associates and bachelors degrees with DH’s (low SES but not minority) relatives… earning a little over minimum wage doing commercial art wouldn’t be that bad compared to earning minimum wage at the dollar store, so the advice not to be an artist doesn’t necessarily make sense in that context.  Additionally, getting a bachelors degree is important when there aren’t a whole lot of jobs in your town and there’s a ton of competition for the ones that don’t require degrees… whether or not you want to get the heck out of dodge.  Additionally her analysis also applies to gender– part of the reason that women earn more education is precisely because their options without them are not as good as men’s options, even though the degree doesn’t add as much to a woman’s salary as it does to a man’s (though for white women, you can still do fairly well with just a bachelors compared to the opportunities for minorities).  Anyhow, a very neat article and illustrates the importance of breaking apart treatment effects by groups (something I covered in class on Wednesday!)– even if those still only give the average for each group and individuals may vary.

buzzfeed with 31 reasons why the job search sucks.

The oatmeal with the mantis shrimp.  DEATH SHRIMP.

Turns out coursera does have an underwater basketweaving course… (avoid the death shrimp though…)

This song from mashable is EPIC.  Where is Prince Ali?

No time for flashcards suggests positive princess books for kids.

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Pretty places to read.

A really awesome low-cost intervention experiment that a couple of famous economists did to get more poor kids into fancy colleges (that end up costing less than local schools).

Mutant supermodel talks books.

I’m not going to read blogs of so-called-feminists who announce to the world that they have no desire to read Lean-in, mainly because those bloggers don’t talk enough about the plight of the endangered Panamanian golden frog, and that oversight is just offensive.  I will continue to attack and call out these so-called-feminist bloggers on that oversight, even though I will completely ignore the male non-feminist bloggers who for some reason also sidestep the endangered frog topic.  Also:  Hush and Wandering Scientist.

“Nice guy” vs Friend Zone.  The comic.  Related buzzfeed article.

Fighting faculty terminations, via Tenured Radical.

Why benevolent sexism also sucks via psysociety.

A bedtime story for dr. becca’s study section.

Scalzi’s tribute to the late Roger Ebert.

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Ok, so if I didn’t have any family or a job (or a bladder) and had enough moneys to pay for shelter and computer power, I would totally totally want this.  Squeee!!!!!

Delagar suggests an alternative to the Bechdel test.  Also gender and schools.

First gen American talks about clothing and ultra-frugality as a child.

Pictures of bookcases!  Alyssa, CPP, Wandering Scientist.  Do you prefer the full shots of entire libraries or just the snippets?  The full frontal or the ankle/shoulder peep?

Oil and garlic has a super-awesome chart of frugal substitutes, as requested by Debbie M.

Explain xkcd has its claws in us this week.  Updating every half hour… It’s almost as if we’re at the beach too.

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A kitten in the hand is worth two of anything else (from momdot).

jliedl used to believe in renewal

Why did the chicken go to the seance?  Gunnerkrigg court with the answer.

Do we not grumble enough for you?  Thank goodness for angry face.

The Book of Kells online is pretty.

Performance today with a drummer’s thoughts while playing Bolero.

F* YES Tenure, from PhD Comics.  (Though we wish we’d gotten three submissions in…)

Awesome obit.

Saw this in the funny papers.

I got a parking ticket this week because I forgot to put my tag back up after an oil change.  #2 tried to comfort me with this article.  It didn’t work.  (“I was an idiot,” fortunately is not on their list of reasons you cannot use to ask for ticket forgiveness, so I requested a challenge.)

Suckitude.

Food for thought.

Also, ARGH!

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Cherish the scientist discusses homeschooling and gifted children.

Yes I am cheap has an amazing story about how she engineered her layoff.

I am officially tired of the anti-Sandberg rhetoric.  I’m especially tired of people saying that she’s destroying her children.  That said, the CNN reporters have been having a good streak this week.  (Again, don’t read the comments.)  1 2 3 4  And here’s Laura Vanderkam’s review.

Miser mom posted this week.  Yay!

This CNN story on a new charity like donors choose for foster kids made me cry.  Last I checked, they’d run out of people to donate to because of the huge influx of donors, but hopefully everything is back up again by now.  It is a wonderful idea.

Show us your bookshelf!

Afford Anything discusses breaking habits.

Single Mom Rich Mom pointed us to this gawker article about how it is easy to preach minimalism when you have a huge security net underneath you.

Challenges of parenting a gifted kid.  Perspective from away from the oven.  Another by childhood inspired.  Let’s just say, this week we’re a little ticked off at backlash against parents of gifted kids.  Here’s a response to the idea that gifted kids don’t need anything special until third grade from about.com.

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All righty, some links that may call you to political action.  Check them out anyway!

Delagar explains how government is the solution.

Fusion on the fly talks about how we treat our sick and poor.

Club Thrifty talks about how the health care sector in the US is messed up.

Mike the Mad Biologist links to some informative graphics about wealth and inequality in the US.

CNN talks about how men can step up to help end domestic violence in the country.  Do not read the comments section.

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Hush, by request, discusses innovation vs. productivity.

Shakespeare experts:  check out this week’s Sheldoncomics.  The one before this too.

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Barbara Eden can sing.