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Another climate commitment (sort of)
My inbox, yesterday, contained the weekly digest of announcements from AASHE. As always, the subject line highlighted one or two...
ABC's and PhD's: Balance in a tippy world
For the past several months I’ve been stewing about balance and life goals. It seems to be my favorite topic...
10 Tips for Junior Faculty
Daniel S. Hamermesh urges those starting on the tenure track at research universities to have a tight focus on their publishing and their time.
Matters of Ultimate Concern
A new book considers the power of religion in the public sphere. Scott McLemee reads it while bracing for 2012.
6 Reasons to End (Almost) All Timed Exams
Can we declare the era of the timed exam (almost) completely over? 6 Reasons to End (Almost) All Timed Exams*...
Stuck in the Slow Lane
You know that awful feeling when you’re stuck in a lane that’s moving so much slower than the lane next...
Balancing the Passionate With the Mundane
The title of my honours thesis was “Religiosity and Neuroticism’s Effects on Death Anxiety.” Really? I suppose there isn’t any...
Conserving happiness
Two recent pieces came together in my mind this afternoon. The first, published in Grist, contains economist Stephen DeCanio's prescription...