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Pre-Emptive Layoffs
An alert reader sent me the link to this article from the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Apparently, the University of Massachusetts...
Math Geek Mom: Is More Always Better?
We live in a great neighborhood where many people decorate their homes for Christmas with fancy lights that draw people...
Biofuel blather
Having dissed George Will, a conservative darling of the ostensibly liberal media, I want to balance the scales by dissing...
Let the Restoration Begin
After years of attacks on science, the election of a science-friendly president makes now the time to push for the politically unbiased use of science in education and policy making, write Joseph Karlesky, Richard Pepino and James Strick.
Wondering Aloud
How is it possible that the comforter is warm, the blanket is warm, and the sheets are freezing? The sheets...
Long Distance Mom: Twilight, Seventeen and Possibly in Michigan
I have vague memories of reading Seventeen magazine upstairs in my attic bedroom, alone and sequestered from my parents. Even...
It's Official
I’m the best teacher who ever lived. Anyway I think that’s what the Provost said in the letter she sent...
ABCs and PhDs: Meeting expectations?
Recently I received a phone call out of the blue from a long-time family friend, a graduate student my parents...