Weekly Links 3.1.20
A weekly update of content from around the web including modern takes on the ancient world, material related to this past week’s articles, and a look at what our editorial staff is reading.
This week:
The mythological lore of BTS, featuring our own Editor-at-Large, Yung In Chae!
Women of color in academia often work harder for less respect.
How colleges can help homeless students.
The job market is killing me.
Classics through the eyes of black communities worldwide.
Emily Wilson on toxic masculinity and being drawn to Homer.
Troys and Girls, by Anne Carson.
Check out the new Haley Journal!
Mary Beard was blocked as a British Museum trustee for “pro-Europe views.”
Joel Christensen on how we think about truth.
This week in Eidolon history:
2019: City mice, fat cats, and the faux rusticity of fine dining; lessons learned from baking for the department; the beauty of culinary pursuits.
2018: On hard topics and dirty jokes; how to decide on a PhD program in classics.
2017: Why we pay our writers; more women classicists need to write big.
2016: No peer review? No problem.
Donna Zuckerberg: Should vegans eat roadkill?; sex baby voice is the result of the patriarchy; Vulture's "The Best Sex I Ever Read" series; a fascinating tale of two royal instagram accounts.
Sarah Scullin: Age-appropriate online sex-ed for kids/teenagers; how political spin has worsened epidemics; the definitive ranking of Silicon Valley shoes; why do corporations speak the way they do?
Yung In Chae: How the Onion became socialist, the five stages of earring loss, Emily Gould on shame, Sarah Miller on the diet industrial complex, the awkward process of making small talk with your baby, when Lady Gaga starts dating your ex-boyfriend.
Tori Lee: The story behind the infamous, millennial-driven MLM LuLaRoe; America is running out of forensic pathologists to do autopsies; how to support prison abolition while still hoping Harvey Weinstein rots in a cell for the rest of his days; a glimpse into an Afghan women’s prison that houses women convicted of killing their husbands; it is impossible not to fall in love this this overeager German shepherd as he fails his service dog test; how to shut down Grand Central Station (and film a music video); this is one of my greatest fears about the future.
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