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What is new today is *not* that many humanities professors are openly political in their research or teaching. What is new is that departments like English at elite universities have become officially politicized at the behest of university bureaucrats.
The Humanities Have Sown the Seeds of Their Own Destruction - The Atlantic
Tyler Austin Harper
Other work has shown that while the ability of light to produce a phase advance contributes to its clinical efficacy, this is not limited to subjects who are phase delayed to start with. Rather, it is the size of the phase advance relative to one's sleep rhythm that is most important, with the optimal response achieved with light given 8.5 hours after melatonin onset or 2.5 hours after the sleep midpoint, defined as the midpoint between sleep onset and time of awakening.[Cit](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.31887/DCNS.2007.9.3/rlevitan?scroll=top&needAccess=true#)
The Chronobiology and Neurobiology of Winter Seasonal Affective Disorder
Taylor & Francis
There is usually something to like in even the weakest work—just as there is nearly always some weakness in the strongest work; most reviews, if anything, should be somewhat mixed. (It may be a sign of how harmful the culture of reflexive “liking” has become that what are, in fact, mixed reviews are denounced as if they were take-downs.)
A Critic’s Manifesto
newyorker.com
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