Women hunters often experience sexist harassment at retail stores, hunting conferences, and out in the field. http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/12/21/female-hunters-share-tales-sexism/20696377/
The @UIowaPress sketches eight ways academic writing must change to have a chance for a wider audience. http://uiowapress.org/authors/dissertations.htm
At mixed holiday gatherings, a prayer can emphasize our differences or our common ground. We choose how we speak.
On not disparaging students–a teacher’s note to self in #grading season. Plus a William Carlos Williams parody. http://10x14s.smallpict.com/2014/12/17/#a1418818224
Silence 102. “We conspire in this concealment: we don’t want to know.” @georgemonbiot http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/16/perpetual-denial-food-meat-production-environmental-devastation
Silence 101. “What can you say about a society whose food production must be hidden from public view?” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/16/perpetual-denial-food-meat-production-environmental-devastation
The trap of seeming to be neutral–a brief case study by @JayRosen_nyu. https://storify.com/jayrosen_nyu/my-reaction-to-chuck-todd-interviewing-dick-cheney
The news niceties a journalist must break to challenge a master like Cheney, by ever-witty @JayRosen_nyu.
The science that explains “Why People Don’t Believe In Climate Science.” (Hint: that science is mostly psychology.)
#IllRideWithYou says we can walk and sit and talk together. We can promise each other things that matter. http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/sydney-siege-promise-illridewithyou
Semaphore & Cairn 