Health – as in working in nursing, physical therapy, in the medical field – is a separate field, in professional categorization for tax purposes, than fitness. Actual health professionals are in demand in Germany as everywhere, but you have to speak German with fluent, near bi-lingual raised, proficiency. You see the…

See my ETA. German university is difficult. Unless you have a legitimate academic interest, this a specious plan at best. There is no cost for a student visa, or any visa, and there is no fee for attendance at German public institutions. But right now we have our choice of qualified applicants from all over the world.…

I’m German. Not a health and fitness worker, an academic. Do you speak/read/write German with C2 or better proficiency?

I guess in the same way Son of Saul and Twelve Years a Slave “covered” the Shoah and slavery “for entertainment” without making them “seem crass.” See the comment below for how your limited imagination problem can be addressed.

75 % of whitebread American men, yes. 75 % of the people in the world are concerned with war, hunger, poverty, disease etc. And not just those directly afflicted. Some people have lives and are actualised enough to realise that video games are a huge part of The Spectacle and are totally unimportant socially and…

I don’t think you can call it “everyone” either. Further, the study clearly states that it considers people who casually play Candy Crush Saga on the metro to be participants in “gaming,” which I think is specious.

That’s trawling tho.

Get with the times, everyone plays video games.

That’s actually one of his adopted (with Soon-Yi) daughters. Not defending Allen, it’s just important to get these things right. See: this blog, UVA.

LöL. I’m a German teaching in the Anglophone system so you can appreciate my challenge, and I sympathise with your culture shock.

I think the problem, to continue the discussion on the realm of academia, is that the “good” ideas of the left quickly become reified and turned back into a part of what has become “the Spectacle” of education. The original motifs of “no child left behind” which have brought public schools to their knees with…

Corrected, thank you. And yes I agree with what you are saying; I have found it is becoming increasingly difficult to get students to write a “thesis statement/research question.” I’ve taken the word “argument” out of the assignment formulation because younger students uniformly interpret it as a negative term. It…

Being an academic outside the American university tradition, I could not agree with this professor more. Though associated with millennials I would argue that this “niceness speech” movement is instead just another tool of neoliberals and capitalism.

If failed, ludicrous books were all it took to get booted from the Columbia faculty...the PhD unemployment crisis would be solved...

“...I and my wife...”

You’re trolling, right? Because plants do not have central nervous systems. For one thing.

I like Kesha’s schtick for the kind of music it is, and maybe it will improve through collaboration with actual musicians. She first became known as Ke$ha, and now even with the ‘s’ refers to herself as a one-name artist. There is no reason anyone would know her last name, so using it on the first reference makes no…

Wow, where to begin? Maybe be identifying who “the Seberts” are before the first reference? They’re not the Kennedys.

What a very thoughtful, erudite, and kind response. I wish this were the post. Needs more stars.

What “bizarre angels” did Picasso paint? And actually he did do quite a bit of commission work, particularly his sculptures...