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“The Case for Fan Fiction” on PBS Digital Studios “It’s Lit!” with Lindsay Ellis and CAZ ALUMNA PRINCESS WEEKES. 

(sorry not sorry for shouting)

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“But there comes a point at which rational people have to put adorable hijinks aside and recognize otters for what they are: disease-ridden, murderous, necrophilic aqua-weasels whose treachery knows few bounds. They are not "wonderful animals," . . . They're merciless hellspawn who use their intellects for great evil. Here's what you need to know about these terrible animals, and why you should fear and hate them.”

(sorry not sorry)

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Thanks, everybody

It was a tremendous pleasure spending the term with you. 

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Here’s the End-of-Term Plan

Tuesday 3 December: go over final assignments

notebooks

last explainer(s)

self-grading explainer

discussion of topics / review 

Thursday 5 December: dedicated office hour: see me for questions, advice, etc 

Friday, 13 December: 12:30 Turn in All Work (in person unless you get permission from me) 

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Unit whatever number it is

“You kids think you invented rock and roll, but you didn’t We did that.”

“OK boomer” isn’t just about the past. It’s about our apocalyptic future.

also, a pile of semi-relevant thought pieces, trying to be part of the conversation

Column: We officially sucked all the fun out of ‘OK, Boomer.’ This is why we can’t have nice things.

Column: It’s OK Boomers, You’re OK, just Old

OK Kids. This Boomer Has Had Enough.Those who use ‘OK Boomer’ reveal more about themselves than those they use it against.

A New Study Reveals the Surprising Reason Why Every Generation Complains About 'Kids These Days

and these

“It’ll Happen to You!”

Cat Stevens: “Father and Son”

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For Tuesday, 19 November

Amelia Boone

Please go in order:

She’s Won The World’s Toughest Mudder Three Times In A Row (Women’s Runninng)

She Runs: Ultimate Obstacle Runner (Runner’s World)

Amelia Boone Q&A: For this Tough Mudder, the pain's just part of the fun

Some Videos

Meet Amelia Boone (World's Toughest Mudder 2012) 

It's Not Always Pretty 

Meet the Apple Attorney Who Is Winning Spartan Race Championships

15 Hours | Amelia Boone (a Billy Yang film) [it’s only 8 1/2 minutes btw]

Keep going in order: 

Amelia Boone: The Queen of Pain (Muscle and Fitness)

How Amelia Boone Trains, Eats, and Wins (Outside)

The Recovery I Needed (Race Ipsa Loquitur)

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For Thursday, 14 November

We will:

return to the Jeans unit 

do another “glossary” exercise 

try to replicate the “aha” moment / process from today about Tom Sachs, & explain it using the Jeans unit

those who were absent are the audience for the explanation -- if they don’t “aha” then we’ll need to improve our explanation

maybe new material? 

also, jeans are cool but smoking is bad so don’t do it 

oh, and here’s this and this -- for entertainment purposes only

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Also: as of this week, no more homework cards.

I think we’re past the point where we need them. Everything should be in your notebooks anyway. 

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For Tuesday, 12 November

Tom Sachs Tom Sachs Tom Sachs : a glossary of key terms & concepts

[Re]watch the interview video that Taylor found for us 

[Re]read the articles you have & haven’t read 

there are more on the Unit 7 post below the “read more” 

if you find something new that’s really good, send it to me and I’ll post it 

Meanwhile

collect a list of his key terms (like “authenticity” and “sympathetic magic”) 

there are lots -- list all of them that you discover

choose one and collect everything he says about it

try to understand what he means when he talks about that concept

meanwhile

try to hold back on how you react to what he’s saying 

or try to separate your reactions and keep them separate

Goal: a Tom Sachs glossary that explains all his key ideas, based on his own explanations 

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Unit 7

Here’s what you* have sent me: 

Tom Sachs (tomsachs.org)

Tom Sachs Is Not Interested in Sneaker Culture

To Space and Back: Tom Sachs and His Triumphant Failure to Make Shoes Fit for Mars

The Questionable Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs, the Handyman of High Art

Tom Sachs on creative leadership and the importance of idealism

Tom Sachs Leads Space Mission to Jupiter's Europa Without Leaving Earth

Tom Sachs 2014 New York Times International Luxury Conference Keynote: Authenticity. (video) 

Tom Sachs: Paradox Bullets (video)

Would You Pay Six Figures to Live in Artist Tom Sachs's Spacecraft-like Sculpture?

Artist Tom Sachs Teaches Us How to Learn How to Surf 

* Carrie, Alyssa, Taylor, Sydney, Brianna, Sara, Ivanna, Caley, Caila 

Here’s what I had:

Ten Bullets for WSJ

Tom Sachs (Wall Street Journal)

This Is His Life: A Blue Whale and Hello Kitty

Tom Sachs on creative leadership and the importance of idealism (Vogue Business)

Tom Sachs, the Handyman of High Art (GQ)

A Guide to Tom Sachs (HYPEBEAST)

NikeCraft Mars Yard Shoe 2.0 Tom Sachs Space Camp (StockX)

Tom Sachs Designed an Art-Filled Obstacle Course to Deter ‘Posers’ From Buying His New Sneakers (artnet)

Tom Sachs Unveils His Nike Mars Yard Overshoe Collaboration in His New Film Paradox Bullets (Vogue)

The Gray Market: Why Artists Should Think Twice Before ‘Satirizing’ Brands (And Other Insights) artnet

Tom Sachs (Interview magazine)

Transcript: Art and Brands with Artist Tom Sachs ( Art Agency, Partners )

1 + 1 = 1 MILLION, CURATED BY TOM SACHS (Vito Schnabel Gallery, 2018)

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Unit 7

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Unit 6

Note: This unit is . . . not really about fire shelters

Deployment Story Videos

Pagami FIre

Holloway Fire

Inside the Shelter

Nuttall Fire -- ep. 1 

Nuttall Fire full playlist

Articles

Wilderness rangers survive the Pagami Creek Fire

The Sky Is Burning: Caught in the Pagami Creek Fire

National Interagency Fire Center

Fire shelters, the last resort, couldn't save 19 'hotshots'

19: The True Story of the Yarnell Hill Fire

When You’re the Division Supervisor and Fire Shelters Come Out

We Made it Out, But it Was Very, Very Close – Reflections From The Nuttall Fire.

New Fire Shelter Prototypes Being Field Tested on Wildland Fires

Why emergency fire shelters aren't used in Canada

NASA Works with U.S. Forest Service to Improve Fire Shelters

The New Generation Fire Shelter (NFES 2710)

How the New Generation Fire Shelter works 

US attempt to improve wildland firefighter shelters fails

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Unit 5b: Readymades

Explainer Suggestions: 

Choose one of the following & explain it clearly, simply, and completely, in 4-5 points:

DNA patenting

patenting

Marine Genetic Resources (MGR)

Bioprospecting

BASF

ABNJ: “areas beyond national jurisdiction” (”the high seas”)

the Nagoya Protocol

UNCLOS

the Patent Cooperation Treaty

Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics

Others are possible. 

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Unit 5a

What 13,000 Patents Involving the DNA of Sea Life Tell Us About the Future

Biological bounty is the ocean’s richest treasure

Patenting marine genetic resources: Who owns ocean biodiversity?

How should the benefits of bioprospecting be shared?

Corporate control and global governance of marine genetic resources

Patenting marine genetic resources: Who owns ocean biodiversity?

Biological Diversity in the Patent System

Marine Genetic Resources in Patent Data

The Gene Patents Debate

U.N. talks to tackle tough question: Who should benefit from DNA collected from the high seas?

On the Trail of DNA in the Ocean

Scientists are using DNA to study ocean life and reveal the hidden diversity of zooplankton

From Monsoons to Microbes: Understanding the Ocean’s Role in Human Health

Marine-Derived Pharmaceuticals – Challenges and Opportunities

Access to Marine Genetic Resources (MGR): Raising Awareness of Best-Practice Through a New Agreement for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ)

BASF

top image (Christian Vizi) bottom image (Geochemist Miriam Kastner from Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

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Unit 5

Nearly Half the Patents on Marine Genes Belong to Just One Company

One Company Owns Almost Half of Marine Gene Sequence Patents: What It Could Mean for Drug Discovery

Blue Rush: One Company Leads the Race to Own Marine Genetic Sequences

One company has the majority of patents on sea creature genes

image: Christian Vizi

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Process

Identifying your Topic 

Recognize that the topic that interests you may be too large to work on directly

this is so common you wouldn’t believe, and it leads to many bad papers!

∴ you need to recognize that what you thought was a topic is really a subject and then reframe your focus 

you do this by narrowing and bracketing your topic 

(in a typical paper you can use this narrowing & bracketing in your introduction)

How to Narrow & Bracket

collect and review a number of general articles about the subject 

read these sources to identify different aspects of the subject and as you read, ask these kinds of questions

what are the issues within the subject? 

what questions are being discussed? 

what controversies emerge from these discussions? what problems are people trying to solve or figure out?

who’s involved in those discussions?

who’s affected by those discussions?

what different perspectives and positions emerge? (do they cross over into multiple discussions, or are they fixated on separate discussions?) 

note that you will come up with multiple answers to these questions; what you find will be lists rather than specifics

these lists may overlap or get confusing so mind-mapping is an excellent tool for this stage of the process, even if you don’t like it -- but outlining can also work

review your map and identify one aspect of the subject -- one question, controversy, or problem; this is narrowing 

make note of how this aspect, this topic, relates to the larger subject and be prepared to explain why it is particularly interesting; this is bracketing 

Then proceed with your process (haha)

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