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College Presidents and Learning Styles
Listening to the inauguration speech of Dartmouth's new President, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, marks one of the more inspiring moments...
Long Distance Mom: Heartbreak and Radicalism
There’s no denying it. The school year is in full gear now. Labor Day has passed. October is coming. My...
Hamster heat
A new, significant and potentially very useful report makes reference to an aquarium full of hamsters connected to rudimentary motors...
Wednesday Wonder-Cabinet
Gaze into your Internet box and behold the miscellany of oddities collected for you today: Here’s a little piece of...
ABC's and PhD's: Horsing around
My mom grew up on a ranch, and she made sure when my brother and I were old enough, we...
Scaling Up Fast
This September has been a lesson in what happens when you try to scale up really quickly, with less money...
High Risk / High Return
If the MacArthur Genius Program gave awards to institutions I'd be that Abilene Christian University would be a shoo-in. The...
A loss of faith?
Listening to NPR this morning, I heard a representative of the Bipartisan Policy Center (who? should I trust anyone whose...