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ABCs and PhDs: Vintage glass
It’s that time of year again when the boxes of Christmas decorations come out of storage and for a few...
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Canadian Universities Are Way Ahead of Us On This
It’s high time to visit our good friends over at The World’s Fair, a Seed Media science blog, who have...
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Rediscovering Hubert Harrison
Eighty years ago, a prominent black intellectual disappeared from the historical record. Scott McLemee talks to the man who rescued him from oblivion. With a podcast.
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A Mixed Marriage
I'm increasingly convinced that there are two ways of watching television, and that The Wife and I are firmly planted...
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Required reading for reptiles, realists, reformers and radicals
As the title implies, this is reading for everybody. I don't care whether you're concerned about issues of sustainability, national...
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College vs. Employment
Memo to President-elect Obama: History shows that expanding access to higher education is a smart investment during economic downturns, writes John Aubrey Douglass.
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Yet More Evidence That I Don't Understand the Press
Isn't this story actually good news? It's being covered as if it's somehow a bad thing that fewer people are...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: More work on weaving the lattice
Several of our recent Mama, PhD blog posts have generated a lively discussion in various other corners of the blogosphere...