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Math Geek Mom: "It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood…"
There is a concept in mathematics that shows up in calculus and geometry, the concept of a "neighborhood." Like its...
Pacific Rim views on global education: Hong Kong+Seattle
Editor's note: this guest entry was kindly produced by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, as well as...
Are These the Lessons Learned by the Demise of Google Wave?
What do we learn from Google's decision to kill the Wave ? Perhaps next time we will curb our enthusiasm...
What Was It Now? Oh, Yes: Memory
A piece in the Times recently was titled “ The Web Means the End of Forgetting.” Thank god, we’ll finally...
Bread crumb the fifth - On the highway, at the theater
Yes, I own a car. I also own a truck. Neither one is a hybrid, and both were built in...
Motherhood After Tenure: Admission
This week I rewarded my productivity by reading a totally engrossing, satisfying novel: Jean Hanff Korelitz’s Admission. Korelitz's deftly-written novel...
Well, That's Different...
This Fall’s enrollment patterns aren’t looking anything like historical norms. I’m curious to see if that’s a local quirk, or...
Answering My Brother Max About The Value of Video Mashup Assignments
"In four years at a fairly tech-savvy university, I never did anything with video mashups (or video in general) for...