Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom: ( fascinating comparisons )

Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir: ( tough love )

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness: ( Whoa. )

( Deception and psychology in America )

Preliminary notes: (1) Survivorship bias, or why taking lessons only from the successful is a really bad idea, in an elegantly written narrative.

(2) Ugh, I hate grading.

(3) Note to self: Veronica Mars, for all its awesomeness and willingness to engage with class and gender politics, often enough cozied up to the creepy side thereof. ( S1 rewatch in anticipation of movie )

The most recent LJ stuff, brilliantly satirized here by
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