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Long Distance Mom: Heartbreak and Radicalism

There’s no denying it. The school year is in full gear now. Labor Day has passed. October is coming. My...

Hamster heat

A new, significant and potentially very useful report makes reference to an aquarium full of hamsters connected to rudimentary motors...

Wednesday Wonder-Cabinet

Gaze into your Internet box and behold the miscellany of oddities collected for you today: Here’s a little piece of...

ABC's and PhD's: Horsing around

My mom grew up on a ranch, and she made sure when my brother and I were old enough, we...

Scaling Up Fast

This September has been a lesson in what happens when you try to scale up really quickly, with less money...

High Risk / High Return

If the MacArthur Genius Program gave awards to institutions I'd be that Abilene Christian University would be a shoo-in. The...

A loss of faith?

Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a representative of the Bipartisan Policy Center (who? should I trust anyone whose...

Strange Days Indeed

Along with everybody else I’ve been reading the articles and op-ed pieces in the Times on the current “populist rage”...