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Make your own academic sentence!

The reification of history as such opens a space for the ideology of the gendered body.

Well, duh..

Here, have 100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists.

My new favorite book: The Effects of Human Age, Group Composition, and Behavior on the Likelihood of Being Injured by Attacking Pumas. That’s a long way of saying that when you’re attacked by a mountain lion, run!

For you have taken the following set of principles too closely to heart: How to write Consistently Boring Scientific Literature.

How do you make precalculus religious?

I cracked up reading this one. Some graduate students at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a random computer science research paper generator. You just plug in some author’s names, and presto, you’re ready to submit a paper to the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics Conference. Feel free to check out my latest project: “Ambimorphic Epistemologies for a* Search”

Miss Susie Had a Steamboat: A Critical Analysis of a Schoolyard Rhyme.
In my essay, I have discussed how the metrical structure of the rhyme allows the person reciting to sneak up on a taboo word and delight in “almost” swearing. I then discussed how although meter has remained true, the successive endings have picked up more imagery and a narrower type of taboo, namely that newer rhymes mirror children’s curiosity about sex. Lastly, I want to focus on the fact that the rhymes are usually recited by women, and because of this gender divison, they have served as a unifying entity for young women.
(via leuschke.org)

Need a completely meaningless essay on the poststructural dynamics of Madonna’s music? Marxist-Freudian interpretations of blue shoelaces? Interpersonal Hegelian beanpole dialectics? Look no further than the Postmodern Generator, a funny take on the excesses of modern cultural theory. My favorite: “The Failure of Culture: Pretextual capitalist theory and subtextual feminism”
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