Helpful links in the avoidance of studying and/or finals

May 10, 2010 in Links | No comments

Greg Palast on BP’s oil spill disaster/negligence: “Why didn’t the government do something to stop it? The answer is, because government took you at your word they should get out of the way of business, that business could be trusted to police itself. It was only last month that BP, lobbying for new deepwater drilling, testified to Congress that additional equipment and inspection wasn’t needed.” (Yeah, that picture depicts the Deepwater Horizon exploding.)
One of these days, I would like to grow mushrooms inside of a book.
Open Yale Courses has RLST 145: Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) available, with audio, video, and even class lecture transcripts. Even if you’re not religious, perhaps you will find the historical-critical aspects interesting. If you’ve done any research into the TaNaKh, a lot of it will be review — but the professor still manages to sprinkle in bits of information that I didn’t know already. It’s not on iTunes U due to copyright issues, which makes me wonder how many other open courses are out there which go unnoticed because it’s not picked up by iTunes.
Anne Lamot on Mother’s Day: “Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.”
Eyeballing the site where the Times Square car bomber was held in NYC.