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Stephen Hawking: Cooler Than Isaac Newton
Oh sure, Sir Isaac Newton wrote the Principia and Opticks and all, and he too was Lucasian Chair of Mathematics...
ACE and the Presidents
Friday, May 11, 2007 ACE, the American Council on Education, is a remarkable organization. Their mission, to speak for and...
Oh, Totally Sweet
That’s what a grad student next to me said when he saw the most recent publisher book fair in progress...
Walk of Shame
The end is near: It’s time to grade the stacks of final papers, estimate student participation grades, tabulate everything and...
Celebrating Creativity
Although much that comes across the academic administrative desk shines with the bright light of pride and promotion -- expensively...
The Death of Don Ho, Part 2
My mother and I were sitting in a booth in a J.C. Penney’s lunchroom, sometime in the late ‘60s or...
The Death of Don Ho, Part 1
My mother-in-law and I were discussing small-town life. She’s originally from Inverness, Scotland, which used to be smaller than it...