CulturalChronos

“All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives. - T.K. Whipple | CIO | Adj. Professor | Duffer

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

The GOAT

[DeSantis Appreciation Society @KickboxerEsq]

OH MY GOD

The Tribal Chief @RonDeSantis just bodied a Soros protester into next week at the RPOF event

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

Put yourself in his shoes. In front of the very people who have enabled this societal destruction. And the harm of his daughter. This is priceless…

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Do yourself a favor and watch a father whose daughter was permanently disabled by an illegal alien with a CDL completely roast Democrats to their faces.

[Lupen @0xLupenn]

This man teaches at a community college in California.

His salary: around $800,000 a year.

The engineers who passed calculus because of him: $1,800,000 to start.

He has more calculus students than Harvard, MIT, and Stanford combined.

This is Professor Leonard's Calculus 2, Lecture 6.2. Free on YouTube.

Professor Leonard has taught calculus on YouTube for over a decade. His channel has millions of subscribers across 150 countries. Every major university has students who watch him the night before their exam.

Then the concept.

An inverse function is a machine that undoes another machine. If a function takes 2 and gives you 8, the inverse takes 8 and gives you back 2. Finding an inverse means switching every x and y in the equation and solving for y again. The graph flips across the line y = x like a mirror.

Then the problem.

Sometimes it is easy to find the inverse. Sometimes it is impossible to write it explicitly. A function like 3π sin x + sin x cannot be solved for x with algebra. You have to think. What angle makes the whole thing equal to 1? You work backwards through the unit circle until the answer appears.

Then the shortcut.

If you want the derivative of an inverse at a point, you do not need the inverse itself. You only need the derivative of the original function. The formula: the derivative of the inverse at a point equals 1 divided by the derivative of the original function evaluated at the switched point. The inverse flips the coordinates, so you flip where you plug in.

Watch the moment he shows why G prime of 8 equals 1/12 without ever writing the inverse function.

Every engineering student memorizes the derivative rules. Professor Leonard's lecture is the one that shows why the inverse derivative formula is just those same rules run backwards.

A software engineer at a semiconductor company in Austin said Professor Leonard's channel is the reason she passed Calculus 2 on her second attempt. She graduated, joined the company, and now makes $165,000 a year.

Bookmark this and watch later - after this lecture every inverse problem on your exam will feel like a question you already answered.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

Chancellor Haynie- this is an excellent letter. The endeavors you lay out are in exactly the right areas. At exactly the right time. And with exactly the right tone. All institutions face incredible competition and at an accelerated rate. Syracuse is no different. Going on offense in this environment is the clear choice.

Having said that - if your committee doesn’t come back on 11/15 with meaningful and timely structural changes - then you’re whistling past the grave.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

@EchoesofWarYT Have Washington DC annex Fairfax and Louden County.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

The first move for a university bleeding enrollment and cash is not another branding campaign or across-the-board freeze. It is to measure, program by program, whether a degree still earns its keep: students choose it, finish it, and leave with skills or credentials the market (or a clearly stated civic mission) actually uses. That data is not mysterious—applications, yield, retention, time-to-degree, placement, starting wages, licensure pass rates, and net tuition after discount. Rank programs against those numbers and against the real cost of delivering them. Then stop subsidizing the ones that fail the test on a schedule you can defend in public, rather than protecting every major as if it were a sacred entitlement.

What that does not mean is a crude “cut everything students aren’t lining up for this semester.” Demand lags the labor market; some low-enrollment fields are cheap to run or required for accreditation, teacher pipelines, or the university’s stated mission; and a research-heavy department can be valuable even if its undergraduate major is thin. The point is to stop treating every program as equally non-negotiable. Scarcity forces a value equation. The institution that refuses to write one will keep shrinking until the market writes it for them.
@rickhess99 @bryan_caplan @PrestonCooper93

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

THE THREE GROTESQUE MEN

Virginia removed three statues from Capitol Square on Friday. The budget allocated $1.8 million for the job.

State Senator Adam Ebbin, Democrat, who sponsored the bill, called the three men grotesque people.

Let me concede the hard part first, because I always do. All three served the Confederacy. Jackson owned six human beings. Nothing that follows erases that and I am not going to pretend otherwise.

Now let us meet the grotesque people.

The first is Dr Hunter Holmes McGuire, a battlefield surgeon.

He is the man who amputated Jackson's arm at Chancellorsville and sat with him until he died. After the war he founded the teaching hospital that became the Medical College of Virginia, pioneered surgical technique, and served as president of the American Medical Association.

There is a VA hospital in Richmond named after him. It is treating American veterans today, roughly nine miles from the lawn Senator Ebbin just cleared.

Grotesque.

The second is Governor William Extra Billy Smith, twice Governor of Virginia. He earned the nickname before the war by running a mail coach line and billing the federal government for extra routes he had added himself, which is how a Virginia politician gets a nickname out of a congressional investigation into padded invoices.

He was sixty six at Gettysburg. One of the oldest field officers in the war.

Grotesque.

And the third is Jackson, and here is the part Ebbin did not know. I would bet the mortgage on it.

In 1855, in Lexington, Jackson started a Sunday school for Black children. Enslaved and free. He funded it himself and taught in it himself, every week, and it grew to roughly a hundred students.

Virginia law after Nat Turner made assembling enslaved people for instruction legally dangerous. He did it anyway, for six years, and when the war took him away he sent money back to keep it running and wrote home asking how it was getting on.

After he died, Black members of that Lexington congregation contributed to a memorial for him.

Documented. In Virginia. While it was illegal.

So the roster is a surgeon who ran the AMA, a governor famous for creative invoicing, and a general who taught an illegal Sunday school.

You can decide none of them belong on the Capitol lawn. Reasonable people make that call.

But Ebbin does not get to call three men grotesque and be unable to name one thing any of them did, and Virginia should not spend $1.8 million on the word of a legislator who could not pass a quiz on the subject.

That is not contextualising history. That is erasing it. A statue with a plaque teaches. A patch of grass teaches nothing.

Ebbin has been in that chamber since 2004. Twenty two years.

Ask a Virginian in twenty years to name one thing he did.

Then ask them who Stonewall Jackson really was.

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[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

@hkarthik The University of Florida received 95,000 applications for enrollment.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

A little history on the city of Syracuse and its long decline. The University and the City are intertwined:

Willis Carrier’s company manufactured air conditioners in Syracuse starting in 1937.
Carrier invented modern air conditioning in 1902 while at Buffalo Forge and founded Carrier Engineering Corporation in 1915. Early factories were in New Jersey (Newark and other sites). During the Depression he consolidated operations and, in July 1937, moved production to the former H.H. Franklin auto plant on South Geddes Street in Syracuse. The city sold the plant for $1,000 and the Chamber of Commerce helped cover moving costs.
The Geddes Street plant opened that fall. In 1947 the company built a much larger complex on Thompson Road in DeWitt (a Syracuse suburb). Manufacturing continued in the Syracuse area through Carrier’s death in 1950 and for decades afterward; it ended in 2004. The Carrier Dome and Carrier Circle names still reflect that long local presence.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

Keven Walker, CEO of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation, shared the following statement with 8News, which can be read as follows:

“Preservation is more about the future than the past, and ensuring the preservation of the Capitol Square monuments is a part of that clear vision. At the core of all we do is the belief that our shared history can unite the people of our nation; that there is strength and inspiration for our own times to be found in the struggles of the past.”

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

Keven Walker, CEO of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation, shared the following statement with 8News, which can be read as follows:

“Preservation is more about the future than the past, and ensuring the preservation of the Capitol Square monuments is a part of that clear vision. At the core of all we do is the belief that our shared history can unite the people of our nation; that there is strength and inspiration for our own times to be found in the struggles of the past.”

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

It’s fashionable now to erase Western History….

The Historians Who've Had Enough of Woke History - Nigel Biggar and Robe... https://t.co/ucyGG5xYgx via @YouTube

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

Among many other things, Robert E. Lee’s tenure as president of Washington College—renamed Washington and Lee University after his death—was one of the most consequential periods of his postwar life. Taking the position in 1865, just months after the Confederacy’s defeat, Lee focused intensely on rebuilding the institution and shaping a modern, forward‑looking curriculum. He expanded academic offerings beyond classical studies to include practical subjects such as business, journalism, and engineering, believing the South needed professionals who could help reconstruct its economy. Lee also emphasized strict personal honor, strengthening the Honor System that remains central to the university’s identity today. Perhaps most importantly, he encouraged reconciliation and discouraged lingering bitterness, urging students to become responsible citizens in a reunited nation. His leadership transformed the small, struggling college into a respected national institution and remains a defining chapter of its history.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

America should know it’s history. All of it.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Here’s a better video about Stonewall Jackson

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

VCU’s Committee on Commemorations and Memorials (formed after the 2017 Charlottesville rally) audited the campuses and recommended removing about eighteen items tied to the Confederacy. The Board of Visitors approved the main resolutions in September 2020.

The people whose names or honors were removed:

• Hunter Holmes McGuire — McGuire Hall, his bust, and a plaque

• Simon Baruch — Baruch Auditorium plaque

• Alexander Stephens — plaque (Confederate vice president)

• Jefferson Davis — Jefferson Davis Memorial Chapel and four plaques

• Kathryn Wittichen — United Daughters of the Confederacy plaques in the chapel

• James Brown McCaw and the Tompkins family (Christopher Tompkins, J. McCaw Tompkins, Sally Tompkins, Walter Drew McCaw) — Tompkins-McCaw Library name and plaque

• Matthew Fontaine Maury — plaque at the MCV Alumni House

• John Brockenbrough Newton — Beers-Newton House

• Lewis Ginter — Ginter House

• James Dooley — Dooley Hospital entrance

• Judson B. Wood — Wood Memorial Building

• John Syng Dorsey Cullen — portrait in the library

• Fitzhugh Lee, Joseph Bryan, and Williams C. Wickham — statues in Monroe Park

• Richmond Howitzers — the Howitzer monument

Also removed was the name “Harrison” from Harrison House (tied to Fort Harrison). The Monroe Park statues and Howitzer monument were already taken down by the city in summer 2020;

VCU’s own plaques, signs, and the bust came off in December 2020.

Students at VCU will never know the true history of the school.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

@AuronMacintyre And in our universities.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

Richmond fell a long time ago:

VCU’s Committee on Commemorations and Memorials (formed after the 2017 Charlottesville rally) audited the campuses and recommended removing about eighteen items tied to the Confederacy. The Board of Visitors approved the main resolutions in September 2020.

The people whose names or honors were removed:

• Hunter Holmes McGuire — McGuire Hall, his bust, and a plaque
• Simon Baruch — Baruch Auditorium plaque
• Alexander Stephens — plaque (Confederate vice president)
• Jefferson Davis — Jefferson Davis Memorial Chapel and four plaques
• Kathryn Wittichen — United Daughters of the Confederacy plaques in the chapel
• James Brown McCaw and the Tompkins family (Christopher Tompkins, J. McCaw Tompkins, Sally Tompkins, Walter Drew McCaw) — Tompkins-McCaw Library name and plaque
• Matthew Fontaine Maury — plaque at the MCV Alumni House
• John Brockenbrough Newton — Beers-Newton House
• Lewis Ginter — Ginter House
• James Dooley — Dooley Hospital entrance
• Judson B. Wood — Wood Memorial Building
• John Syng Dorsey Cullen — portrait in the library
• Fitzhugh Lee, Joseph Bryan, and Williams C. Wickham — statues in Monroe Park
• Richmond Howitzers — the Howitzer monument
Also removed was the name “Harrison” from Harrison House (tied to Fort Harrison). The Monroe Park statues and Howitzer monument were already taken down by the city in summer 2020; VCU’s own plaques, signs, and the bust came off in December 2020. Students at VCU will never know the true history of the school.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

VCU’s Committee on Commemorations and Memorials (formed after the 2017 Charlottesville rally) audited the campuses and recommended removing about eighteen items tied to the Confederacy. The Board of Visitors approved the main resolutions in September 2020.

The people whose names or honors were removed:

• Hunter Holmes McGuire — McGuire Hall, his bust, and a plaque
• Simon Baruch — Baruch Auditorium plaque
• Alexander Stephens — plaque (Confederate vice president)
• Jefferson Davis — Jefferson Davis Memorial Chapel and four plaques
• Kathryn Wittichen — United Daughters of the Confederacy plaques in the chapel
• James Brown McCaw and the Tompkins family (Christopher Tompkins, J. McCaw Tompkins, Sally Tompkins, Walter Drew McCaw) — Tompkins-McCaw Library name and plaque
• Matthew Fontaine Maury — plaque at the MCV Alumni House
• John Brockenbrough Newton — Beers-Newton House
• Lewis Ginter — Ginter House
• James Dooley — Dooley Hospital entrance
• Judson B. Wood — Wood Memorial Building
• John Syng Dorsey Cullen — portrait in the library
• Fitzhugh Lee, Joseph Bryan, and Williams C. Wickham — statues in Monroe Park

• Richmond Howitzers — the Howitzer monument

Also removed was the name “Harrison” from Harrison House (tied to Fort Harrison). The Monroe Park statues and Howitzer monument were already taken down by the city in summer 2020; VCU’s own plaques, signs, and the bust came off in December 2020.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

@ConradMBlack @KeithMLambert2 Tenebrous means dark, shadowy, or gloomy — literally or figuratively. It comes from the Latin tenebrae, darkness, and shows up mostly in literary writing rather than everyday speech.

[CulturalChronos @CulturalChronos]

@Milajoy Like all of his Executive Orders, they are meaningless.