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Stephen Hawking: Cooler Than Isaac Newton

Oh sure, Sir Isaac Newton wrote the Principia and Opticks and all, and he too was Lucasian Chair of Mathematics...

Oh, Totally Sweet

That’s what a grad student next to me said when he saw the most recent publisher book fair in progress...

Walk of Shame

The end is near: It’s time to grade the stacks of final papers, estimate student participation grades, tabulate everything and...

The Death of Don Ho, Part 2

My mother and I were sitting in a booth in a J.C. Penney’s lunchroom, sometime in the late ‘60s or...

The Death of Don Ho, Part 1

My mother-in-law and I were discussing small-town life. She’s originally from Inverness, Scotland, which used to be smaller than it...

MFA = MBA?

I may have the best deal in all of adjunctdom. My teaching load is 3/3, and I have full health...

Tricks of the Trade

When I was accepted to grad school, I had a big problem: In order to get my fellowship, I’d have...