Beyond books: The 21st century public library [CBS Sunday Morning]

 

Deep Springs College: Higher education on a remote ranch [60 Minutes]

 

:-)

 

Peace be with you.

Earth is at aphelion (approximately 94,509,460 miles from the Sun).

Today is Independence from Meat Day and Alice in Wonderland Day and so much more.

The Hidden Life of a Christian-College Professor [The New Yorker]

 The flava:

In October of 2015, I received one of those vaguely mysterious e-mails which journalists sometimes get. It came from an account under the name of “K. Lee,” generic enough to be un-Googleable. “I wasn’t sure to whom to send this message,” the note began. “I am gay and teach at a member institution of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.”

That got my attention. The council, known as the C.C.C.U., is America’s most prominent association of evangelical Protestant schools. A few weeks earlier, two schools had left the organization after announcing that they would start hiring married gay and lesbian faculty, an unacceptable theological position for most member institutions. If this e-mail was really from a gay faculty member at a C.C.C.U. school, the sender’s identity would likely need to remain a secret. Otherwise, he or she would probably be fired. . . .

The article:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-hidden-life-of-a-christian-college-professor

This physics professor is becoming a TikTok star for her cool demonstrations [boingboing.net]

@tamuphysastr #Levitating balls using Bernoulli's principle as shown by Dr. Tatiana #physics #tamu #bernoulli #fyp #fypシ #science ♬ original sound - TAMU Physics & Astronomy

Tatiana Erukhimova, a professor of Physics at Texas A&M University

 

Solveig Gold Is Proud to Be the Wife of a ‘Canceled’ Princeton Professor [NYTimes]

The flava:

Solveig Lucia Gold was setting the table in her backyard, next door to the house once occupied by Albert
Einstein. Her yard is a sweeping field of emerald green grass leading down to the 18th-century blacksmith’s cottage with stone floors that houses her home study.

Ms. Gold, 27, was preparing for an intimate dinner with some of the few people — “our little cabal,” she said — who publicly admit to being on friendly terms with her and her husband, the recently fired (she prefers “canceled”) former Princeton classics professor Joshua Katz.

Most of the guests were much older than Ms. Gold. This included Dr. Katz, who is 52 and was once her professor. . . . 

The article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/style/solveig-gold-joshua-katz-princeton-professor.html