As university lecturers, my colleagues and I are sometimes called upon to make judgments on what’s fair. Should we let student A re-write the midterm? Is it right to excuse student B from class for a sporting event? If we had perfect information about the world, every call would be…
The Magician’s Nephew was retcon before retcon became a thing. I remember feeling… disappointed when I finally got this sixth Narnia volume from my Scholastic book order in third grade. Up until now, the timeline had been fairly linear. Sure, The Horse and His Boy threw everything on its head…
This summer was particularly great, and this back-to-school season was particularly rough (thanks, High Holidays + revamping lesson plans + new-to-me-course! Also normal political the-world-is-going-to-hell stuff that I’m sure everyone is happy not to be reminded of again here). But here are 9 things that made the greatness greater and…