࣪˖ sophie ࣪˖

US shale is running out of Tier 1 drilling locations. When US conventional oil fields ran out of Tier 1 drilling locations around 1970... - US production rolled over and declined for decades. - Back then oil traded at just $3. Geological constraints > oil prices.

Audiobooks are fine. But can we stop pretending that reading a book and listening to a book are the same thing?

Quite fascinating how so much left thinking in America became dominated by right Bourdieusian thought. About half my students are first generation and on pell grants. Only "symbolic capital" would lead someone to say they become elite by virtue of touching a college classroom.

In 2014 we published the first large-scale study of suicidality in autism, subsequently widely replicated, revealing that 1 in 4 autistic people have planned or attempted suicide. That’s why I’m very concerned about the impact of the media coverage on Professor Jason Arday who is autistic. He has been accused of plagiarism and he was cleared of any academic misconduct following a rigorous investigation by Liverpool John Moores University. And yet he continues to be systematically discredited over every detail of his life, daily. We should of course always investigate plagiarism to protect academic standards. However, I cannot stand by and watch when an autistic man is on the ground and the kicking continues. This is relentless bullying of a vulnerable autistic man and raises safe-guarding issues. It’s time to stop.

I wrote about male friendships. There's a common strain of cultural criticism—associated with the push for what is sometimes called the “new masculinity”—that argues that men need to be more emotionally vulnerable with their friends. For many reasons, I think this is nonsense. 1/