William M. Briggs

Due to underwhelming demand...the temporary return of The Week In Doom. I have a backlog of doomable material. Each ITEM is post-worthy, but the rate of increase in new items…

Crystal Lee of MIT---bio: "I work broadly on topics related to the social and political dimensions of computing, data visualization, and disability. I also conduct ethnographic and computational research on…

The story is that a still-sane med student conducted an anonymous interview about how gender madness, a.k.a. gender fiction, a.k.a. emasculated masculinity, a.k.a. funked-up femininity, and so on, has cucked…

The purposes of a university are to pass on knowledge and to provide a refuge in which to conduct scholarship. That's it, and nothing more. Nowadays scholarship is called "research",…