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Sometimes, it's what you don't plan that goes well. Earth Hour, an event which originated only last year on the...

...laptops tend to mean you're not getting any. 37 percent of Americans bring laptops (and other disconnect-anxiety stuff) to bed...

A longtime reader writes: I'll be starting a Ph.D. program in History in the Fall. I know the risks, and...

Paycheck envy aside, I'm glad I'm not a university president. Long hours, too many constituencies bringing too many competing priorities...

Champaign-Urbana is not a small town, though it’s often thought of as one. It’s actually two cities, of course, with...

Tim Burke and Chad Orzel have recently posted some helpful thoughts on tenure and its assumptions. This paragraph of Chad's...

... is that you do talk about Scrap Club. According to a piece that I heard on public radio this...

"Proles," explains Paul Fussell in his book Class, "like to use words that normally appear only in newspapers. They don't...