Unexpectedly busy day yesterday. Here are some links.
* One of Flashforward's creators has apparently been fired, suggesting the show might get better soon. Nerds may also rejoice at the news that Brannon Braga isn't actually involved with Flashforward at the moment, as he's off driving 24 further into the ground.
* "Good Ol' Gregor Brown" and other "Masterpiece Comics."
* The future of academia? UNC Chapel Hill has made Spanish 101 online-only.
* More bad news for NJ's Chris Christie in advance of next month's election: federal prosecutors gave the New York Times specifics on how one of his former assistants, to whom he made a large, undisclosed loan, may have improperly helped his campaign. Lautenberg isn't an independent observer by any means, but for what it's worth he's called for a federal investigation.
* Columbia has suspended its environmental journalism program. Because the environmental crisis is so 2008.
* A new book called Manthropology makes a lot of claims about the "inadequate modern male" that don't seem right.
Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.Also, "manthropology"? Really?
Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood.
Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestle.
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