London mapped according to Victorian Literature… “Kurt Vonnegut’s “Shapes of Stories” as an infographic poster…

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Kurt Vonnegut’s “Shapes of Stories” as an infographic poster

 Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder

A Good Professor Is an Exhausted Professor

Slate Articles by Rebecca Schuman

In higher-ed parlance the herculean act of teaching eight courses per year is what’s known as “a 4-4 load” or, alternatively, a “metric ass-ton” of classroom time. And yet a new bill currently under consideration in the North Carolina General Assembly would require every professor in the state’s public university system to do just that.

London mapped to show the emotions in Victorian literature

 Boing Boing by Clive Thompson

Behold the “emotional geography” of Victorian literary: A map that shows the “feeling and sensations” connected with various city locations in 19th-century novels. There are some surprising findings.

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