Look - my book is going to be real! July 2026, seems surreal. I have seen the cover, but it isn't on the website yet:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...
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Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology. Assistant Professor at HKBU. News junkie with a journalism past. https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
Look - my book is going to be real! July 2026, seems surreal. I have seen the cover, but it isn't on the website yet:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...
Kristi Noe-More at DHS
Was I the only journalist in the world to run with this headline? I must be either genius or stupid or both. am-quickie.ghost.io/r/2e8b93ad?m...
20 years ago we made terrible meth but it was our meth.
Sources: Axel Springer agrees to buy the Telegraph for £575M, ending the proposed acquisition by DMGT and a bid by a consortium led by Dovid Efune (Financial Times)
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This is a much more generous interpretation than mine, which is that Pokémon is basically cockfighting.
Fun fact: a lot of Pokémon are based on Shinto spirits.
All this example tells me is that there are superficial similarities (woman?) that are completely irrelevant to understanding this very specific figure.
It is the year of our calendar 2026 and I don't know what these people are talking about with their comparisons to a religion I am not a part of nor have studied.
This is fabulous. Thank you for sharing it.
I have put together a handout- it discusses the differences in HS vs uni readings, the impact that has, and suggestions for students doing readings
Feel free to use and circulate to any first years :)
#highered #higheducation #history #medievalhistory #teaching #academia #transitionpedagogy
Example: Kuan Yin provides solace and inspiration, serving a function not unlike that of the Madonna or Guadalupe. However, the legends that give rise to Kuan Yin are, at least in some ways, more complex than those of her Christian counterparts.
Dear scholars (especially of religion). Please, please, please stop writing articles on Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. that use vague references to Christianity as if it is as the default tradition to which all others can be compared.
When you use GenAI, you're supporting this.
Why the fuck would anyone want to shop in a chatbot? Bring back the mall!
there are two kinds of historians: historians who need to stop reading and write, and historians who need to stop writing and read
I block out time for AI. 3pm, time to rant about why AI sucks again.
Didn’t read because paywall.
“Just”
Mate, it’s making me work harder at things that shouldn’t actually be my job and making me work less on things that are.
Hi! Have you applied moisturizer recently?
“Ben Appel has written for Newsweek, Quillette, Queer Majority, The Free Press, The Spectator, spiked, UnHerd, and the Washington Examiner.”
Oh.
I gave a talk in a ripped t-shirt once because the conference was in my hometown and all the olds decided to go the hospital while I was there. I don’t think anyone cared, tbh.
Lol
We keep talking about going down there. One day…
'The petition, launched by the University and College Union (UCU) branch at Heriot-Watt University, is in response to plans to cut a third of staff from the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS).'
11 staff and both German and Chinese language would go. 1/2
Stupid clouds. I want to see the lunar eclipse
🌈 Happy #Holi! This ragamala miniature painting depicts Krishna and Radha, whose eternal, divine love lies at the heart of Holi, rejoicing together as gopis shower them with vibrant pink powder. (Artwork 068.002)
"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.
“I’m not going to try it”
Uuuuugh
Forgot to mention the 1/4 kilo of sumac in the freezer that came straight from Istanbul
This is why no one believes me when I say I’m a spicy white person. Sit this woman down in my kitchen. I have 38 jars of spices and herbs and 2/3 of my fridge is sauces. Plus 5 and a half pounds of melt your face New Mexico green chile in the freezer.