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Prepping for the Empty Nest
Both of Ben’s bands are taking off. His school jazz band is literally taking off in a little over a...
Watch more TV
Normally, I'm a devout TV-phobe, but this is just too cool not to like. Samsung is showing off a 46-inch...
Gigabit Web, South Korea, and the Coming Asian EDU Century
"By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one...
Friday Fragments
--I’m officially tired of using the wet/dry vac on the basement floor. Anytime this winter would like to go away...
Hacking the Academic Press: or Herding Pushmi-Pullyus
The Association of American University Presses has just released a report, Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses...
Lessons on Health and Well-Being for Academics
My university has one of the worst health records around. In the past five years, four colleagues and two staff...
Math Geek Mom: Labor Economics
I am commonly struck with a mixture of pride, relief and fear when I hand in my column each week...
Postmodern practice
David Roberts has an interesting post on Grist, asking whether climate change denialism has roots in postmodern theory. In general...