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Long Distance Mom: Abandoned
I’ve been traveling around the country lately talking about the B.P. oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, screening excerpts...
All Summer in a Day
Elizabeth Grant wonders whether her students really know the sun, and how she can best teach them.
BIngo for Books
Last night TW and I took the kids to the local library for Bingo for Books. (It doubled as an...
3 Areas Where I May Be Wrong About Curricular Media Management Systems
In the spirit of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error , by Kathryn Schulz, I want to share...
The future of farming, at very least
The National Research Council has produced Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century, a report describing how farming practices...
Alma Mater
On my first day as president of Alma College in Michigan, an alumnus I’ve come to know and admire sent...
The Financial Crisis and Higher Education in the UK
The new UK coalition government presented its “emergency budget” to Parliament on 22 June. This aims to more or less...
ABC's and PhD's: Diversification in academia
My family and I are once again located at our favorite summer marine biology research station (our “summer camp for...