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- It’s 2017…
- Nunavut!
- Finding the way…
- Cartoon of Quebec’s Little Boy
- Hand Maps
- Quebed
- A Piece of Imperial Pie
- Expansion vs. Isolation
- Anthropological Mash-up
- Mash-Up: Ladies & Fashion & Shite, 1732-2016
- Swipes #49: Thorny Situations
- Swipes #48: History repeats itself repeatedly
- Stanford University Field Trip
- If you find yourself in Chicago this month…
- Rich Thoughts
- Zines & Comics
- Thanksgiving Post
- A Lament on Academic Spec Work: * Cry Cry *
- Everything you never wanted to know about parenting
- Remembering 13 September 1759
- Celebrating Six Years of Friendship, or That Time I Made a Friend at the O-Train Station
- Giving Birth in a Baby-Unfriendly Hospital
- Guest Post: Jillian Klean Zwilling on Feminism
- Hiatus
- Norman Rockwell Swipes
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ghosts of Former Indigenous Inhabitants of Stanford University”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: Branner Library Tour
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Opening Up the Data Vault”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ancient Orientations”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “The Arbuckle Illustrated Atlases”
- “Everything and everyone serves history’s single purpose.”
- Swipes #47: Land Grabbing
- Part V: John Bull & Uncle Sam, Frenemies
- Monsters, Part 6: Laocoon
- Monsters, Part 5: Slimy, Serpentine Stephen Harper
- Happy Constitution Day, Poland!
- Monsters, Part 4: Dismemberment & Bugs
- Monsters, Part 3: Just your standard anthropomorphic snake post
- Monsters, Part 2: Two-headed Creatures (and more!)
- Monsters, Part 1: Hydra Round-up
- The Many-Headed Hydra: Monstrous Representations of Canadian Confederation and the American Civil War in Cartoons, 1861-1867
- Now & Then / Then & Now
- Maps: They Don’t Love You Like I Love You
- What is a geographer?
- What is an American, anyhow?
- April Fooling in Map Form
- Colossus (Part III)
- Swipes?
- Part IV: John & Jonathan, BFFFL
- Ireland Carto-Caricatures (Map Cartoons)
- Colossus (Part II)
- Colossus (Part I)
- Swipes #46: Ice Floes
- Draw the Shape of the Bay @ The Exploratorium in SF
- “There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers.”
- Prohibition & Other Booze-y Cartoons
- Composting 101, or “Stop thinking and just compost!”
- Vaccines: Not Turning Humans Into Cows Since Always
- “Self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France”
- Canadian Studies Talk at Berkeley on February 11
- Swipes #45: Turning Tail(s)
- Notes from Nelson Graburn’s talk on “Canadian Inuit Art”
- San Mateo County History Museum recap
- JE SUIS CHARLIE?
- Just another four chord song…
- Apologies, Round 2
- JE SUIS CHARLIE
- Apologies (Belatedly)
- Baby New Year!
- “All students do is stand around looking casual.”
- Christmas Panopticon
- Cave Paintings
- It’s a plane! It’s a car! It’s a… really large shoe?
- NEH Day 1: “Mapping Nature Across the Americas”
- Srsly?
- Shaking Down the Provinces
- ‘Tis the season to be generous
- Swipes #44: Disputed Waterways
- It’s not Thanksgiving in Canada (or “appalling ignorance”)
- Canada: America’s Hat?
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part Four of Many)
- Swipes #43: Me-ow
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part Two of Many)
- Remembrance Day
- Happy Birthday, A.J.M. Smith
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part One of Many)
- Dress Codes, Round 2
- Happy Halloween!
- What Goes Around Comes Around: The Cyclical Nature of Political History
- Shop Locally
- Speech Balloons & Thought Bubbles
- Part III: John Bull & Uncle Sam, a friendship to the end
- Policy Brief on Canada-U.S. Education Initiatives
- Part II: Representations of UK & US Cooperation
- Part I: Representations of the US & UK
- Representations of British Imperial Expansion
- Representations of US Imperial Expansion
- Hats off (and on)
- Yesterday was a big day for maritime history in Canada and the U.S.
- “[M]ap-obsessed, to a degree quite uncharacteristic of middle America”
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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Spoofs from psych
One Dan Simons, world-renown researcher, shared a link to the Dr. Fox lectures on Google+, and I thought it was quite amusing. To whit, the footage from a 1970 experiment (by Ware, Naftulin, and Donnelly) shows that experts can be … Continue reading
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Guest Post by Kelly B
Way back when, I shared my discussion paper from the PhD core seminar at Carleton University from September 2010. The cycle continues, so I’d like to offer you one Kelly B’s September 2011 paper on similar readings. Enjoy! “What is … Continue reading
Overheard at Carleton
As I promised once upon a time, I have some things to say about Carleton’s school newspaper, The Charlatan. Before getting in to all that, I’d like to share my amusing contributions to the “Overheard at Carleton” column with you. … Continue reading
Internet Fights – Addendum
I’d like to supplement some comments I made previously about internet fights. First of all, it seems that internet fights date back to at least 1844 (well before the internet!), so I now have a fuller appreciation of the long-standing … Continue reading
Now I’ve join the ranks of guest posters
Check out my little article at Canada Higher Education and Career News. Their Twitter account says they’re looking for articles about life in Canadian colleges and universities, so shoot them a line if you want to guest post, too!
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Tools of the trade, a la Katie Beaton
Recently, we were hosting a guest in the space I am using as an office while I write my dissertation (or, on most days, blog). As I tidied up in anticipation of not horrifying someone who is not related or … Continue reading
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Gender stereotypes much?
An interesting advertisement in the September 2011 issue of Good Housekeeping caught my eye. While we’re on the topic, who signed me up to receive Good Housekeeping and The Good News? I’m not complaining – I enjoy reading about other … Continue reading
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Advice for graduates – and non-graduates, really.
Sometimes it’s helpful for those considering enrolling in graduate programs to read graduation speeches before you get to the end of the road. (The road in this scenario refers to school years.) And I’ll just add that I absolutely love Mary Schmich. … Continue reading
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“You have an intense interest in mortality lately.”
It’s really not my fault that so many fascinating books deal with the topic of death, premature death, or knowing your own expiration date. Actually, the expiration date is a great plot device, as The Blue Castle, Machine of Death, … Continue reading
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Don’t worry, get workin’!
Want to share this great article about the games of rhetorical footsie regarding life after higher ed. My favo(u)rite bit reads: Throughout the time students are in graduate school, they need to feel that their faculty members will support their … Continue reading
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