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Math Geek Mom: (Probably Unintended) Gifts from the Jesuits

It is suspected that the 360 degrees in a circle may have originated from the 365 days in a year...

A Modest Proposal Inspired by Aaron Swartz

I don’t know what Aaron Swartz planned to do with the four million or so articles that he downloaded from...

Is Google an Indictment of Higher Education's Failures?

Evidently, Larry Page of Google "once considered accepting goats as a legitimate form of payment from those seeking to buy...

An Open Letter to Congress

Dear Congress, As you know, I spend a disheartening amount of my time benchmarking, quantifying, and planning initiatives with measurable...

On Becoming an EdTech Conservative

My favorite educators are the risk takers. The academic tech colleagues whom I most admire are the innovators. But with...

The Joys of Administration

This week I started my new position as Director of my university’s teaching center. This is my dream job: I...

If I Could Get Away With It...

I’d have everyone on campus read Moneyball, by Michael Lewis. It’s several years old now, but its point still holds...

ABC's and PhD's: Nerdy fun

A couple weeks ago our family got gussied up to go to an evening ball – an annual summer extravaganza...