Opinion

The Boy wrote a letter to President Obama in class, and brought it home today. In its entirety: Dear Mr...

Bernard Madoff is a classic Mafia-style gangster. He comes from gangsters - his mother was a crook. Investigators are looking...

In a passing conversation a while back with a colleague who routinely works with local employers, I heard that the...

The social network site ignores the care with which academics need to calibrate the mix of private and professional in their lives, writes Alex Golub.

There’s a block of time on my calendar this morning marked “work at home or behind closed doors: grade” and...

Like every other college and university in the country -- probably the world -- Greenback is pinching pennies. Hard. Discretionary...

I'm away from school working on my thesis at another institution. I noticed the other day that there was a letter to the editor in the local newspaper where some guy was mis-paraphrasing the Pope mis-quoting the recent Benotti et al. pharmaceuticals in drinking water study to say that the Pill is giving all men girl cooties and destroying society and should be banned immediately, by his Highly Scientific Viewpoint. So I wrote a replying letter to the editor, politely, with inline references and just a little snark, to refute it line by line. I was shooting for the tone used in LTEs in Nature or Science. My letter was never published, and today there's another missive of anti-choice wingnuttery from the same person, a week later. Apparently our local editor has granted this person's oppinions pride of place on the editorial pages. I would be slightly less freaked out if this wasn't the local rag for a town dominated by a major research institution-we're supposed to be scientifically minded here.

Wrongs Must Be Writed! I'm away from school working on my thesis at another institution. I noticed the other day...