Are we at peak oral history? This week: legendary weirdo flop Theodore Rex and the Space Jam website.
An NYT article has been circulating about how today’s creative class are no worse off even though no-one pays for anything any more. I wasn’t convinced by it; Salon has a counterpoint that seems more compelling to me.
Short history of breaking the fourth wall:
This was probably inevitable: Kermit’s TED talk
The AV Club has a link to an analysis of a Star Trek leadership test; they also embed the key movie scene it arises from.
Upheaval continues in my home discipline and in science more generally thanks to a reappraisal of statistical methods and a deeper question about how we establish knowledge at all. Psyc lecturer and stats guru Ron Fischer pointed me at this Nature article: problematic p-values are just the tip of the iceberg; and Retraction Watch has an interview with a methodology prof: Yes, may psychology findings may be too good to be true, now what?
The 1982 DC Comics style guide – lots and lots and lots of lovely clean illustrations by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez.
And finally, a parental response form for an unusual school fundraiser.