another update on ada palmer

[buhrger]

things that've popped up elseweb since our last installment:

1. in the previous update i linked up a 2¾ hour podcast she did. well, she went back for another 3 hours with the same dude. lots more good stuff in this one too.
   
   
2. she put up a blog post on self-care and healthy work habits for the pandemic which links to two documents she wrote for the university of chicago:
   • healthy work habits and self-care guide for the pandemic crisis
     
   • adapting a syllabus for the crisis
   which will be increasingly useful as your job more closely approximates "social sciences academic", but the self-care one especially has a lot of very good general advice too.
   
   
3. two other podcasts she's done recently:
   • in lieu of fun 1¼ hours
     
   • getting smart 50 minutes
   
   
4. and in the 2020/21 academic year she's running a science fiction RPG for U Chicago students

that should be enough to keep you busy for a little while

Comments

[thewayne]

I am a great admirer of her work, TLTL is, IMO, one of the most original scifi books that I've read in ages, but that woman has FAR too much energy! What a dynamo!

[buhrger]

add in that she's dealing with a disability as well, and she just gets even scarier

[thewayne]

I had a girlfriend who was later diagnosed with fibro, I myself have an immune disorder after having had pneumonia five times in seven months.  As I type this I'm doing my weekly infusion with four needles in my abdomen getting the antibodies that give me normal immunity - I probably won't be receiving COVID antibodies for another year if I'm lucky.  Crohn's is not an unusual condition from people with my condition, I read about it a lot on the boards.  Definitely not a lot of fun.