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Self-winding cellphones

It's not in production yet, but Nokia was recently awarded a patent for a cellphone that recharges its own battery...

Making It Up in Volume

There's a wonderful I Love Lucy episode in which Lucy and Ethel decide to go into the salad dressing business...

We Need More Teachers

I'm a huge believer that as many people as possible involved in higher education should teach. Administrators should teach. Librarians...

ABC's and PhD's: Motivation

I’m a great one for To Do lists. For me they work especially well when I’m organized enough to have...

Long Distance Mom: International Women's Day

March 8th was International Women’s Day (IWD), which seems appropriate after watching Kathryn Bigelow make Oscar history last weekend (rock...

The Undertow

(Warning: this one's a little vent-y.) Yesterday started with one of those meetings that left me drained, precisely because it...

Laptop Bans Are a Terrible Idea

A colleague sent me an article from The Washington Post, "Wide Web of Diversions Gets Laptops Evicted From Lecture Halls."...

You can't beat city hall

In order to address a number of Greenback U's sustainability issues, it's necessary that the campus work hand-in-hand with local...