And at higher levels, a huge part of the jobs of deans/presidents/etc. is fundraising - because big grants equals a jump in profile and prestige, even if they don’t actually always help the aspects of the university most concerned with students (finaid, teaching positions, etc.)

Fantastic article - reminds me I’m past due for a TNG rewatch. I’ve called upon Picard’s quote from Peak Performance more than once, when a need to overcome hesitation is required: “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”

My vote for ‘better upon successive rewatches’ would be Mononoke - the 2007 12-episodes occult-mystery-horror series, that is. I don’t think it’s that widely known, but it’s a fantastic show.

The art direction and style are something else, just fantastically lush, and details jump out when watching a second time. But…

Naomi Novik’s Uprooted would have my vote. You’d have to do some finangling or go harvest moon for the first third of the book or so, but amp up the political factions a bit, you get Kasia to come in as one hell of a brawler character mid-game, and the Wood can degrade your sanity the longer you’re forced to stay in…

What’s this? The matriarchy at it again!

My tiny blackened heart grew three sizes in reading your comment. A barn I used to ride/work at had a some former track rescues (mostly boarders’) and they were all so crazy. I remember working with some of them and they really seemed like they no longer knew how to be a horse (or do anything that wasn’t ‘run very…

Any loss of life is tragic, but most of the particular mention of the number of children who lost their lives in this terrible incident is in light of the fact that, since the locations were near shopping/eating areas where families were celebrating the end of the school year, many children were killed.

I was wondering how to sum up how stupid the design of this knife was, but I doubt I can top your quite apt, “metelworking masturbation” description, which is really on the nose. This thing is designed to look cool and not much else.

To add another wrinkle to the political complexity of the situation, the bust officially passed into private ownership, into the collection of James Simon, who helped fund many digs (including the Amarna one). So it was held in his private house until being donated to the museum in the early 1920s, when it went on…

The Met Gala is sort of a two-headed beast, I think. There’s the gala itself, which is entirely the Costume Institute’s baby, and they are in charge of all of the fundraising for the event and have control over it and it stands as their own largest fundraising event of the year (at least, according to google).