English, communications, biological sciences and law were among the most regretted college majors, according to a recent survey. On the upside, students who focused on computer science, business, engineering and health administration felt very good about their choices.
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👓 Days of Our Lives cast let go from contracts, as the show struggles with ratings | CNBC
The entire cast has been released from their contracts, although the show has not bee canceled yet, according to an exclusive by TVLine.
👓 Everyone is admitting what they get paid to work in journalism | Columbia Journalism Review
👓 How America Ends | The Atlantic
A tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together?
This is interesting because I’ve been watching very carefully what the center right has been doing since before the election. I wonder how the geographic distribution of these people looks with respect to Colin Woodard’s thesis?
👓 Leaked Emails Show Stephen Miller’s Unfiltered Anti-Immigrant Views | Mother Jones
Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)Miller promoted white nationalists, cited a racist novel, and praised a eugenicist president.
In private emails in 2015 and 2016, President Donald Trump’s top immigration adviser touted a vilely racist novel that warns of a migrant invasion, promoted the ideas of white nationalist publications, and raged at retailers who stopped selling Confederate flags in the wake of the massacre of black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.
On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center published excerpts of emails Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s assaults on immigrants, sent to the right-wing outlet Breitbart. Miller’s embrace of ideas and language used by the “white replacement” conspiracy theorists who populate alt-right forums has long been known. But the unusual thing about the emails, which were provided to the SPLC by a disaffected former Breitbart editor, Katie McHugh, is that they come from a time when Miller was willing to put his ideas in writing. These days, well aware that he’s a target for Trump’s critics, he’s careful to avoid a paper trail by sticking to phone calls.
👓 In private speech, Bolton suggested some of Trump's policy decisions are guided by personal interest | NBC News
The former national security director was especially critical of the president's handling of Turkey, according to multiple sources present for his remarks.
👓 Addressing The Daily’s coverage of Sessions protests | The Daily Northwestern
Last week, The Daily was not the paper that Northwestern students deserve. On Nov. 5, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke on campus at a Northwestern University College Republicans event. The Daily sent a reporter to cover that talk and another to cover the students protesting his invitation to campus, along with a photographer. We...
👓 Statement from Dean Charles Whitaker on The Daily Northwestern’s coverage of campus events | Medill – Northwestern University
Medill Dean Charles Whitaker's statement on The Daily Northwestern's coverage of campus events
👓 Petition: Make the Flor mussel flatbread into a 12-inch pizza | Change.org
Make the Flor mussel flatbread into a 12-inch pizza
👓 Flor – London Bridge – London | The Infatuation
Flor is a tiny restaurant, wine bar, and bakery serving some outstanding small plates in Borough Market.
👓 Werner Herzog on ‘The Mandlorian’ and Why He Hasn’t Seen ‘Star Wars’ | Variety
At first sight, playing a vital character in Jon Favreau’s “The Mandalorian,” Disney’s live-action “Star Wars” series, which the studio is using to launch its ambitious streaming venture, might appear to be an odd move for Werner Herzog.
Do you watch any television?
I do, I watch the news from different sources. Sometimes I see things that are completely against my cultural nature. I was raised with Latin and Ancient Greek and poetry from Greek antiquity, but sometimes, just to see the world I live in, I watch “WrestleMania.”
WrestleMania! This has to be the quote of the year from Werner Hertzog.
November 12, 2019 at 10:35AM
👓 Broadcast, cable news networks to preempt regular programming for Trump impeachment coverage | The Hill
ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS on Wednesday will preempt their regularly scheduled programming for live coverage of the House Intelligence Committee's open impeachment hearings of President Trump.
👓 Instagram is about to hide likes for some US users. Here's what to expect | CNN
Instagram is removing likes for some users in the United States, following similar tests in other countries, including Canada and Australia.
👓 Lt. Colonel Vindman Fired | Daily Kos
What bugs me even more than the firing of Vindman for just doing his job, protecting the national security of the U.S., is the continued gaslighting, saying that the firing was not retaliation, but just a routine personnel move.
This is so patently a lie, that one would think O’Brien would be ashamed to let it out of his mouth.
But you check your integrity at the door to stay in the employ of the Orange Mousseolini.
More likely he was retasked, but still a retaliatory move…
👓 Limits, schlimits: It’s time to rethink how we teach calculus | Ars Technica
Jennifer Oulette (Ars Technica)Ars chats with math teacher Ben Orlin about his book Change Is the Only Constant.
Finally, I decided to build it around all my favorite stories that touched on calculus, stories that get passed around in the faculty lounge, or the things that the professor mentions off-hand during a lecture. I realized that all those little bits of folklore tapped into something that really excited me about calculus. They have a time-tested quality to them where they’ve been told and retold, like an old folk song that has been sharpened over time.
And this is roughly how memory and teaching has always worked. Stories and repetition.
–November 11, 2019 at 09:56AM