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...Teaching fellows." Who are they really? Through a rigorous study of TFs in at least 25 Core classes, I and my colleagues at the Institute for the Study of Teaching Fellows and Prokaryotic Life have conclusively determined several facts about the life cycle of the common TF. In the larval stage, young TFs-to-be squirm through high schools nationwide, leaving oozing trails of teacher recommendations and bibliographic references in their wakes. Pupating during their undergraduate years, many emerge from their pre-university cocoons as some version of that smarmy first-year in your section who always does the reading...
There are countless breeds of TFs, and many (including mine, of course) manage to rise above their larval roots to become great instructors and, hopefully someday, great professors. But others, through either intense training or abnormal mutation, distort into a subspecies taxonomically known as Bad TF-hood--that is, one to look out for after handing in that paper. Because Bad TF-hood is a highly developed and cultivated state requiring great tenacity to achieve, we at the Institute have developed the following manual, originally published in the New England Journal of Semiotic Hermeneutics of Lower Academic Ecosystems, designed...
...Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy--moved to America, where their example and teaching changed its architecture, making New York City and Chicago the epicenters of the postwar International Style. And the academic study of art history in America, which had been fairly larval before the 1930s, was transformed by German-Jewish and Austrian-Jewish refugees like Erwin Panofsky and Richard Krautheimer--despite the endemic anti-Semitism of many American universities...
According to a report in Nature, Arizona tiger salamanders have evolved a very different strategy for doing pretty much the same thing: they turn into cannibals. In their larval stage, these amphibians usually find something besides salamanders to feed on. But when raised in mixed broods, a few larvae will assume a larger, more fearsome shape. These "cannibal morphs" seem to exist for one purpose only: to consume cousins (and nonrelatives) and thus make it easier for their brothers and sisters to thrive and multiply. The study does not explain how the cannibals distinguish kin from...
...meticulous scholarship by Elizabeth Broun at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 8), is to become sharply aware of the limits of the Ryder myth. He is like Poe -- so overwrought, yet so influential. One sees, not for the first or only time, the paradox of American art in its larval days: how its course could be deeply affected, and the enthusiasm of its artists unstintingly engaged, by works whose actual aesthetic merits often seem slight...