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You Can Get the Grant

Self-confidence matters when seeking funds, and lack of confidence dooms the prose in many proposals, writes Mary W. Walters.
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Physics, Blogs and Dogs

Chad Orzel considers how scientists communicate with everyone who isn't a scientist.
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Remains to be Seen? A Response to Marketplace

As regular readers know, I listen to Marketplace podcasts faithfully. But this story nearly made me drive off the road...
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BDSM and the American University

With three sadistic university coaches fired in the last six weeks, and with outrage at their having been fired the...
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Advantages and Drawbacks of Attending a (Mostly) Women's College (Part the Last)

Over the past several weeks, I have discussed the impact of attending a traditionally female college in the early 1970s...
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Keeping Up With Academic Librarians

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion Friday about the academic library and the cloud. I learned a...
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Managing Service Duties

Katie Hogan offers six tips for academic women.
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George Clooney Meets Max Weber

Up in the Air illustrates the ideas -- in surprising ways -- of some of the most prominent sociologists and philosophers of industrial life, writes Susan Herbst.