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Inside information #4 - Thumbs on scales
OK, so it's badly written, and the key section (at least from my perspective) is entirely ungrammatical, but McPaper recently...
The Beginnings of Self-Awareness
We're trying to raise The Girl to be a strong and independent woman, which, given her lineage, is a bit...
Drama Mama: Everything's Under Control
I’ve just had two weeks of faculty orientation activities and I am so tired I can’t see straight. Between the...
For Enervated Scholars
Our friend Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin says there are three kinds of exhaustion: “Exhaustion caused by muscular fatigue, exhaustion caused by...
MOTHERHOOD AFTER TENURE: Parenting a department
Yesterday I met with the new chair of my department to tie up loose ends, hand over some paperwork, and...
The Safety School Shuffle
With classes starting any minute now – I can see the dorsal fin in the water – the folks in...
Inside information #3 - A detour about dark
When I think about information, I usually think about it at rest. Kind of like, when I think about water...
A New Dispatch About Going Wild, Productively
I have a new dispatch up at McSweeney's today, in which I prove myself to be the monster that so...