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Ask the Administrator: What's Your Motivation?
A new correspondent writes: I've been doing some reading in economics lately and started wondering about higher education. What are...
The upside of escapism
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to watch an old (old, old) movie -- Trouble in Paradise. It was...
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Dr. Crazy has a nice discussion over at her place about battles over curriculum. As she details it, her department...
Math Geek Mom: Risky Parenting
Today I taught about Bay’s Theorem and Bayesian Statistics in my Advanced Statistics class. As I was lecturing, I talked...
Four, Going on Thirty
The Girl is four, with big innocent eyes and a smile that could melt the Grinch. She also has juuust...
Balloons, bathtubs and (fill in the blank)
While we're on the subject of visual presentation of information, I just want to point out that part of the...
An Essay in War, Literature
A longish essay I wrote last year has appeared in the twentieth-anniversary issue of the terrific literary journal War, Literature...
Motherhood After Tenure: My Sabbatical Adventure
Last week I responded to one of those time-wasting Facebook memes that asked me to describe my life using only...
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