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A Defense of Textbooks

I like textbooks. I like to design courses around textbooks. How can I promote textbooks with one hand and open...

Living, learning, walking

In my perambulations of the internet, I came across an action plan for a neighborhood called Snyder, in Amherst NY...

More on Advising

I have been reading Libby Gruner’s recent “advising” columns with interest, both because I wish I’d had someone like her...

The Brain and Learning Technology

I'm reading a great book called The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain...

Ten Books

The "what ten books have influenced you?" meme is making its way around the blogs, and while I don't usually...

Fooling with fonts

No, this information does not originate with the Finnish linguist Sloof Lirpa. It originates at, among other places, the University...

BEING AND NOTHINGNESS

"People seemed to run out of their own being," says Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman in American Pastoral, as he considers...

Motherhood After Tenure: on not being an administrator (this year)

I’ve never considered myself an administrator. I’m a teacher first, a scholar second, and committee member/service provider third. I doubt...