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Saturday, the Washington Post finally published the news that George Will has been intentionally misinforming his readers on the topic...

Spring Break 2009

Some of my students may be joshin’ me; they all insist they’re going home to study, eat a few good...

THE POND GONE BLACK

Go wrap Your head in the snowy rivers Of the Brooks Range. And that's what Nicholas Hughes did. His father...

Dodging Bullets and Crying Wolf

I'll admit that this can be filed under 'good' problems. That said, it's still a problem. Between extraordinarily good work...

Addenda

Two quick postscripts to finish out the week. After Wednesday's post about the shape of knowledge, I found mention of...

Math Geek Mom: Degrees of Separation

You may have heard of the concept of “six degrees of separation”. Made popular by a movie and a parlor...

After Transfer

A few months ago I mentioned a conversation with a contact at a respected private university who mentioned that her...

First, you play the Shell game

Sustainability, as any cause, has its wild-eyed fundamentalists. True believers who know, in their souls, the one true path to...