Filter & Sort
They Shoot the Intellectuals First
What happens when your scholarship is considered a crime? When the state tries to stop you? What do you do...
A Biography of Plastic
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel A Challenge: Write down every object that you use in one day...
Advocacy and academe
Climate change. Energy supply. Economic activity. Employment. Public health. Water pollution. Species die-off. Penn State. Pitt. Cornell. Research. Public funding...
Media Coverage of Global Higher Education: Only in English, Please
A few weeks ago I attended the First International World Views Conference on Media and Higher Education in Toronto. A...
The Girl at 7
The Girl had her seventh birthday yesterday. TW’s parents made the journey for the occasion, and we did the whole...
Nothing Personal: How Database Licenses Make Pirates of Us All
The other day, as I was tracking down the text of a classic article in JSTOR to refer to in...
Microsoft's Mobile EDU Opportunity
Windows 7 Phone. Anyone out there have one of these bad boys in their pocket? The latest numbers I can...
Ask the Administrator: Discretion and Discrimination
A longtime reader writes: I've noticed that in your posts you often (in passing) mention lawsuit risks, it seems usually...