Weekend Listening Post

[highlyeccentric]

Music:

I bought the new Mountain Goats album, and in unsurprising news I am loving it. I haven't yet developed individual favourites, although the title track is a strong contender.

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Consequently I have been listening to a lot of Mountain Goats back catalogue.

Podcasts and Audiofiction:

I think all I have to report here is a couple more Magnus episodes, which were decent - I enjoyed getting the Vampire Hunter guy back, and the episode was elevated by the postscript in which we found out what Martin had been lying about.

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Some links of possible note:

Zack Beauchamp (Vox, 2019), The anti-liberal moment.

Carissa Harris (Narratively), The Distinguished Medieval Penis Investigators. I enormously recommend this.

Aubrey Clayton (Nautilus), How eugenics shaped statistics. Notable for two things: firstly, from my standpoint as a medievalist it's an interesting window into how another field with deeply white supremacist origins is handling that; and secondly, in reading this I finally managed to get the concept of p-value and its relation to the null hypothesis into my brain.

Judge Ellison Sady Doyle (own blog), Wife Guy. A bit of a transition memoir piece.

John Paul Brammer (¡Hola Papi!), Will anyone ever love me. Just a particularly nice, warm example of the advice column genre, this is.

Jake Skeets (Emergence Magazine), The Memory Field. "Memory exists as a kind of spatiotemporal entity, because time, memory, and land are woven together."

Britni de la Cretaz (Catapault), How Queer Sex liberated me

Giorgio Ghiglione (Guardian), Underwater museum: how Paulo the Fisherman made the med's strangest sight.

Jennifer Crane (Changing Childhoods), Gifted Children in the 80s: What changed? I have some Feelings, most of them not great, about my psych's tendency to interpret my cognition and emotional processing as 'well that's because you're gifted', and this was... interesting context.

Irina Dumitrescu (Psyche), Get medieval on your haters: lessons from Beowulf and Chaucer.