Spring Break Is Over and All Our Accomplishments Turn to Ash Links

* The best news: Jaimee’s book has won the Anthony Hecht Prize at Waywiser Press.

* Median Salaries of Tenured and Tenure-Track Professors at 4-Year Colleges, 2014-15.

*��Russian Witch Baba Yaga’s Guide To Feminism.

* Get ready for Margaret Atwood’s next.

*��Kim Stanley Robinson Says Colonizing Mars Won’t Be As Easy As He Thought. But it’s not all bad news:��Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System.

*��Time, Space, and Memory at Whitney Plantation.

* Twitter and tenure.

* They found Cervantes’s tomb.

* Black Mirror IRL.

* The megaregions of America.

*��The Concussion Crisis Reaches a New Level.

*��Choctaws helped starving Irish in 1847.

* Ian Bogost:��Video Games Are Better Without Characters.

*��But in 2014, the financial year that appears to have been the final straw for Sweet Briar, total operating revenues were $34.8 million and total operating expenditures were $35.4 million, which means that the deficit the school is running is actually smaller than the cost of any of the bad deals it���s gotten itself into with banks.

*��The United Arab Emirates, where New York University opened a new campus last year, has barred an N.Y.U. professor from traveling to the monarchy after his criticism of the exploitation of migrant construction workers there.

*��If one arbitrary, designed-by-committee college ranking system is good, two must be���

*��“Capitalism posits a future of endless innovation in products and production processes, but no possible change in the social relations that move them.”

*��What is Star Trek���s vision of��politics?

*��The Uncensored, Epic, Never-Told Story Behind ‘Mad Men.’

* The Secret History of the Hardy Boys.

*��A household name to black audiences yet completely unknown to white audiences, Gary Owen, a blond, blue-eyed stand-up from Ohio, has a career wholly unlike that of any comedian before him.

*��Almost seven years ago, a troubled 11-year-old girl reported that she had been raped ��� twice ��� in her Northwest Washington neighborhood. Despite medical evidence of sexual assault, records show that no suspects were arrested and the cases were given only sporadic attention by the police . Instead, in the second case, the police had the girl, Danielle Hicks-Best, charged with filing a false report.

*��People who lose their jobs are less willing to trust others for up to a decade after being laid-off, according to new research from The University of Manchester.

��*��Docs Perform First Successful Penis Transplant.

*��Bruce Springsteen���s Reading List: 28 Favorite Books That Shaped His Mind and Music.

*��The Disturbing Puzzle Game That Nobody Can Solve.

*��What would happen if an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above midtown Manhattan?

*��The two Wisconsin tween girls accused of stabbing a friend 19 times and leaving her in a park���because they believed doing so would protect their families from the mythical internet horror known as Slender Man���will be tried as adults for first-degree attempted homicide, a judge ruled Friday.��

*��Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted has been on a mission to weed out purported voter fraud in the state since he took office in 2011. After launching an investigation into what he called an ���expanding loophole��� allowing non-citizens to vote in Ohio and potentially decide elections, he announced Thursday that 145 non-citizens were registered to vote illegally in 2014, amounting to just .0002 percent of the 7.7 million registered voters in the state.

* Nihilism watch, Washington Post edition.

*��How to Build a $400 Billion F-35 that Doesn���t Fly.

* What happened to UNC?

*��This is the best version of Star Wars ��� and watching it is a��crime.

*��Before Star Wars: Rogue One Takes Off, a History of the X-Wing Series.

* What could possibly go wrong? In South Africa, Ranchers Are Breeding Mutant Animals to Be Hunted. Have to say I’m really pulling for the mutant animals here.

*��And now comes another, increasingly prevalent way to show appreciation for those who���ve served in the military: exempting them from taxes. Would you like to know more?

*��Guess Who���s Editing the Wiki Pages of Police Brutality Victims.

*��California has about one year of water left.

* ���Yahoo seems down for just about anything,��� Harmon said. ���I don���t know why they���d turn their nose up to a movie about a low-rated show. They seem to be very naive.�����

* That gum you like may actually not be coming back into style.

* How did they manage to screw up Powers?

*��Four years after Fukushima, just one man lives in the exclusion zone ��� to look after the animals.

* And in a time without heroes, there was Florida Man.