My proposals to deliver GE by AI are all about saving the humanities and the sciences. Faculty can spend more time teaching their specialty, in small seminars and labs. Lay the foundation by other means. It used to be done in high school.

Why thinking about outer space is important. washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0…

An entire generation grew up thinking finding efficiencies was a form of vision.

What John Sailer describes is standard practice at every university I know. The next conversation should be why these practices were needed in the first place so that fair hiring can occur without them. City Journal city-journal.org/article/george…

Sci Fi says otherwise about historians

Listen to Zena, world.

19th c scholars suddenly alert to see John Henry Newman trending.

Today's flat-earthers are every professor who laments about a student "using" AI to write a paper.

In a perfect world, Melinda French Gates, Hillary Clinton, and MacKenzie Scott would come together with their foundations to endow and think anew a Corporation for Public Broadcasting for a new era.

Hollis Robbins Melinda French Gates Hillary Clinton MacKenzie Scott Brilliant idea. Seriously. In the tradition of Joan Ganz Cooney of Children’s Television Workshop and Sesame Street. sesameworkshop.org/about-us/leade…

The choir is already reading books and will miss the sermons on book reading.

“The Government, instead of granting any relief, have manifested a disposition unfriendly to our Memorials by drawing the cords of Slavery, directing the Fetters closer, and increasing the weight of the Shackles together with a train of evils…” thehouseofhopkins.com/essays/7a-mint…

Smartest thoughts on AI this year. balajis.com/p/ai-is-polyth…

Institutions are always misaligned with exceptions.

The real problem facing community colleges is the weight of state-mandated general education requirements, which are badly conceived, badly taught, and provoke frustrated quitting. No mention of the weight of the requirements in this The New York Times story.

Michael S Roth The New York Times It would be good for Ben Austen to do a real followup on the time- and money- sink of general education requirements at community colleges across the country. The wonderful courses featured in Ben's piece are a too-small part of what these colleges demand.

Searching for podcasts to listen to during a workout yesterday, I came across a Conversations with Tyler where tylercowen interviews Hollis Robbins , way back in 2019. I only became familiar with Hollis relatively recently (TY Henry Oliver ) Interesting discussion. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con…

The half of my feed that believes in normal distributions forgets about it in normally distributed ways.