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Reflecting pools and think tanks

As any good student, the more I study this sustainability thing, the less I think I know. There's so much...

Long Distance Mom: Facebooked

Technology is supposed to help long distance commuters bridge many kinds of gaps—personal, intellectual, financial, and physical, to name a...

Ask the Administrator: The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight

A new correspondent writes: The letter about the horrible adjunct struck a cord for me, but for a very different...

The return of reality-based government

I'm as over-inaugurated as anybody. For fully understandable reasons, the nation is partying hearty. Wall Street fell a full 4%...

Remedial Sequences

A hat-tip to Sherman Dorn for pointing out this story in IHE that I had missed. According to a report...

ABCs and PhDs: Anticipation

Last Tuesday my 7-year-old came home from school and proudly showed off his new library book about a super-hero who...

Reading improves the atmosphere

If you believe that the truly educated never graduate, then I'm still a student. Certainly, I read a lot. And...

Old Words for a New Leader

My occasional book the past few weeks has been Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsün Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu...