flea, I just saw this posted on my college alum FB page and was wondering if you were familiar with it:
On the last two lectures of Donald Kagan's "Ancient Greek History", my daily commute brain-feed these last few weeks. So sorry to have this magnificent course draw to a close. It was free on iTunes U (from the "Open Yale" course selections) if you want to check it out. Solon, Cleisthenes, Pericles, Lycurgus, Xenophon--all these and many more brought to life by this encyclopedic, humane, and witty professor. All of it poignant but relevant still 2,000 years and more later. Anyone else like this stuff?
Anybody else taking advantage of some brain stretching podcasts?
The flu is apparently brutal in Chicago this year.
Yeah, apparently a bunch of Chicago-area hospital ERs are currently overwhelmed by the volume of flu patients. Yesterday I may have said to my team, "Everybody got their flu shot, right? RIGHT?"
I didn't get a flu shot, but all the people I live with who leave the house regularly did, so I should be ok, right?
David, I don't know Kagan's podcast in particular, but he's a big figure on the field. There is a lot of excellent stuff on iTunes U (and sometimes other places like colleges' websites) that can be great for curious amateurs in a variety of fields. Ta-Nehisi Coates has linked to some great free lectures on the Civil War, for example. I worry that with MOOCs colleges will try to monetize all that.
"Everybody got their flu shot, right? RIGHT?"
Not me.
Are Osco pharmacies still offering flu shots? Because I probably should get shot....
OK, this is one of the best Oatmeals ever:
When your house is burning down, you should brush your teeth
Neatorama sez:
Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal is always funny and witty, but today he published a comic that is simply brilliant. Read about Domino, a cat from his childhood. Inman's storytelling is perfect. I won't spoil it for you. Go and read.
If you're already sad (or are avoiding the sad), you might not want to read the Oatmeal panel. But it is about coping too.
KCDW is here, we gave her CJ's room to pull all the stuff to be laundered. My room will have to wait until I'm done with work.
Work is driving me nuts. People are going crazy with making changes for the new year. Blarg...it wasn't broken, don't fix it.
