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My $1,500 Tablet
My latest computer purchase is a Lenovo X201T Tablet. Around $1,500 - with 4 gigs of RAM and some other...
Tiger Mothers and Superficial Scholars
In my role as a fellowships adviser, I have a motto: think laterally - not literally. “ Tiger mothers” as...
UBU SEASON
A week that features Bernard Madoff denouncing people for being greedy, and Moammar Gaddafi delivering a sermon on love, can...
Live from the League, Day 2
Dear reader, I attended six presentations at the League for Innovation conference yesterday, so you didn’t have to. The highlight...
A Library Written in Disappearing Ink
I've been mulling over the bizarre new move by a major publisher to get more blood out of a turnip...
Embracing Our Demographic Future: The True Test for Higher Education
The message from governors during the National Governors Association meeting this week is abundantly clear: any additional budget cuts at...
Mothering at Mid-Career: What Do I Do All Day?
My friend and colleague in Children’s Literature, Phil Nel, spent last week in the panopticon. In a series of posts...
Fly a kite -- GO!!
Cargill isn't just an agricultural products company, it's also a shipping company. (Shipping, I suspect, mostly agricultural products.) Today it...