Sunday Linkfest!

[jhameia]

Thin on the links today. I have grading to do.

Japan:
ABC News: Before and after shots
NYT: How government regulation in Japan made things less worse than it could have been (and a perspective on it linking to anti-government sentiment in the US)
Vancouver Sun: Entire Japan coast shifted 2.4 metres, earth axis moves ten inches

Call for, uh, Classifieds: "Chimurenga Magazine’s next publishing project is The Chimurenga Chronicle – a once-off, one-day-only edition of a speculative, future-forward newspaper that travels back in time to re-imagine the present."

Restructure: Paternalistic Academic-Industrial Complex of Feminism

Racialicious's Latoya Peterson: On Being Feminism's Ms. Nigga (Tokenism in white mainstream feminism)

Old but still relevant: Open Letter to White Anti-Racists

Inside Higher Ed: New research provides evidence that female instructors may be key to encouraging talented female STEM students to stay in those disciplines. (AKA shit we knew but is now OFFICIALLY SCIENCE!)

Kith.org: Describing characters of color (Again, old, but good)

Creators of A:TLA speak a little about Korra

New Disabled Muslim Superhero Comic

Our Magical Honky Neil Gaiman to write script adapting Chinese epic Journey to the West

Scott Westerfeld's Goliath cover is out.

And because you have time, a wikipedia article on English words with uncommon properties.

Comments

[rhivolution]

...I might need a Gaiman Our Magical Honky icon.

[jolantru]

LOL. Magic Honky.

LOLOLOL.

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

We talked about building/government regulations a lot here in the past few days. My mother is an architect and I worked in architecture for a while, so it is very much on my mind. Left to their own devices, most contractors would cut costs. Japanese architecture is really exemplary for its safety building codes - and it does save a tremendous amount of lives when the disaster strikes.

[annaham.livejournal.com]

GAIMAN AS MAGICAL HONKY

Dying of lol, oh my good gracious.