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The Triumph of the Ephemeral
About a month ago my colleagues and I moved back into our old building. For slightly more than a year, we’ve been housed in a collection of offices around campus as our own department was rebuilt after a devastating fire.
Reading "Willpower"
Willpower deserves a much bigger cultural footprint than it has so far enjoyed. Some books end up making appearances in all sorts of conversations, spoken about by a diverse range of smart colleagues and friends. Willpower was not one of those books. It deserves to be.
Impure genius (the best kind)
So I'm struggling with the process of getting my mind around all the aspects of socio-economic sustainability. Lots of good reading, resulting in lots of references to lots more books and articles, some of which will doubtless soon appear in these ramblings.
Free!
Some ideas from the business world translate to academia better than others. At my college, we’re running an experiment with...
How Bates College Proactively Tackles Classroom A/V Failures
A Q&A about how one college prevents A/V failures.
Mothering at Mid-Career: Just Busy Enough
When I was in college I learned a lesson that I seem to have to keep learning, which is that I'm not really happy unless I'm at least somewhat busy. I came to think of it like riding a bicycle -- too slow, and you won't keep your balance and will fall right over; too fast, and the slightest bump in the road becomes a major problem.
Comments of Student Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site
Many issues of note are in this story worth teasing out. 1. Do students know and understand behaviors that have...
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