England has always reveled in its drawing-room dramas, from Jane Austen’s social minefields to E.M. Forster’s Howards End to Upstairs, Downstairs — and yes, the blockbuster Downton Abbey. John Lanchester’s brilliant Capital, set on a once-ordinary London block whose housing prices have skyrocketed, has the distinction of being the first brick-and-mortar novel set squarely in our current times.
I now have power to provide you with an old-school links roundup for #sandy!
Posted by Lizzie on 11/02/12
Yes. I was driven to the blog! A list of the (I hope) helpful, informative, and enraging/funny, depending on your mood.
ARTICLES
- Arun Venugopal’s incredible essay on how Hurricane Sandy cleanup efforts are seen from abroad. His Tumblr, with Sandy photos, here. (WNYC)
- Robin Beth Schaer on the HMS Bounty, tragically lost in the storm off Cape Hatteras. (Paris Review. You can watch the rescue of the survivors here. Two are still missing.)
- Sandy aftermath photos (The New Yorker)
- More Sandy aftermath photos (Atlantic Wire)
VOLUNTEER/DONATE
- Hoboken City Hall, where you can go to volunteer (Google maps)
- 20X200′s New York editions are donating net proceeds to City Meals on Wheels through Monday (use code HEARTNY)
- Register up to volunteer for future Sandy cleanup projects in New Jersey (Jersey Cares)
- How to Help (WNYC)
- Donate to Red Cross through Amazon
INFO
- Where to vote in Tri-State area (WNYC)
- Find your polling place in NJ (State of New Jersey website)
HORRIFYING
Dickhead
Mitt Romney and crowd share a nice laugh at rising oceans.
Dickhead II
Romney remains silent and smiling while confronted by climate change protester. Crowd chants “USA!” Problem solved.
- Staten Island neighbors shut door on black neighbor and her sons, sons die (Jezebel)
- Unrelated: Trickle-down rejected, let’s keep it on the DL (NYT)
SCIENCE AND ANTI-SCIENCE
Linking doesn’t indicate agreement, but I’m interested in this has largely made scientists begin to debate HOW to present climate change, not how to prevent it.
- Andrew Revkin’s “even-handed” view of climate change, with accompanying commenter dissent. Also here and here. (NYT dot earth blog)
- Adam Frank discusses the benefits of long-term rhetorical “Oomph” about climate change versus a short-term opportunity to teach people about science (NPR)
- Will rescue dogs (dogs that rescue, not dogs we rescue) make us more empathetic towards all animals? (NPR)
- Andrew Revkin on government investment in science; i.e., how government create jobs: “The root driver of many innovations that now underpin American economic activity is basic inquiry on the frontiers of science and technology — much of which is not paid for by the private sector because there’s no quick return on such investments.” (NYT’s dot earth blog)
- BoingBoing’s link roundup on Climate Change/Versus Climate — and why you’re asking (BoingBoing)
- Frontline’s “Climate of Doubt,” on climate-change deniers (PBS’s Frontline)
- Curtis Brainard questions if reporters must always cite climate change in extreme weather events. [Yes--ed.] (CJR)
- Are we in for surges every 100 years, or every decade? (CFR)
- On systemic causation (Huffington Post)
- “You can have this endless debate about, “Was this storm our fault?” But the thing I’ve been trying to write on Doth Earth the last few days is that the impacts of this storm are 100 percent our fault.” (dot earth)
- Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Watching Sandy, Ignoring Climate Change” (The New Yorker)
- “We Have a Hundred-Year Flood Every Two Years” (Science Friday)
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