Christopher Hawley

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• Jay commented on Gods and genre
  humanities are funded in some large part by grant overheads from the biomedical and engineering schools Humanities classes are actually much cheaper than science or engineering classes, usually. It's just a teacher, some desks, and some books. There's no need for hands-on experience with a million-dollar infinitive splitter, and literature Ph.D.s work cheaply. Heating in the chemistry labs probably costs more than the entire English department at most universities (it's the fume hoods). Grant overheads don't go to humanities classes, they go to university administrators. Naturally, this leaves humanities departments without a lot of support in higher management....
• scott-sanford commented on Gods and genre
  I believe you, but Google is surprisingly unhelpful about producing a pie chart showing examples of institutional spending broken down by department. For some reason it's hard to find sample breakdowns of college and university budgets: Administration 4%, Building Maintenance 8%, Popular Sports 21%, Unpopular Sports 0.02%, Eccentric Faculty 1.4%......
• Jay commented on Gods and genre
  ... Hipster Faculty Desperately Feigning Eccentricity 46%, ... If the numbers are hard to find, they look bad. If they looked good, they'd be in every press release. That's a fairly good rule about organizational statistics....
• Trottelreiner commented on Gods and genre
  Err, don't get me started on Libertarian Republicans and the War on certain Drugs... But then, with Lensmen it might be a question of historical context; the 30s is not that lon after the establishment of modern international drug legislation, and if you look up some of the surroundings of the first Opium Conference and like, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InternationalOpiumConvention quite some impetus came from the US, explained as the first decolonized nation helping the other colonies against the exploiting imperial powers. Of course, this also meant the USA was forced to intervent, e.g. in the Philipines, and create its own kinda empire,...
• resuna commented on Gods and genre
  And... the future has just run over your fake video narrative. Your protagonists wouldn't have had nearly as hard a time tweaking the video with this kind of software: http://reframe.gizmodo.com/free-photo-editing-software-lets-you-manipulate-almost-1616879310/+barrett That proves it's hard SF!...