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A recommendation and a reminder
Although it's only tangentially related to the topic of sustainability (and even that only if your mind runs in the...
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Learning Not to Answer
I've had variations on this conversation several times recently. Professor: There's option A and option B, and I guess technically...
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Dancing With Widow X
In my previous post I used a recalcitrant subject in an ethnography study, Widow X, as a symbol of all...
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Not that I'm biased, but ...
Events like commencements tend to connect me to family members I haven't seen in a while. In this case, an...
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Fun with Cognitive Dissonance
Both of these stories make sense on their own terms. But taken together, they neatly capture the basic dilemma in...
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Math Geek Mom: One Fallacy and Two Paradoxes
Recently, our college president spoke to the faculty. In her speech to us, she said that some economists think that...
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Motherhood After Tenure: professors and money
I love Suze Orman; I can’t help it. Like her counterpart, Doctor Ruth, Orman speaks frankly about a charged topic...
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The Platinum Rule
Twice in the last month, I've been in meetings at which somebody suggested that the solution to some ongoing dilemma...