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Things I've Learned from The Boy
A few days ago, we did a post-dinner Home Depot run. It wasn't terribly successful, and it was cold, and...
ABCs and PhDs: Recruitment
This season, the biology doctorate program in which I work had a wonderfully diverse, interesting and impressive pool of applicants...
The Fire Last Time
A new book chronicles the aftermath of the MLK assassination. Scott McLemee interviews the author.
The Bookstore Conundrum
A returning correspondent writes: As a Ph.D. student who actually purchases most of the books on the required lists, I'm...
No cold feet
Back when he was in seventh grade, my son undertook a science fair project. For 60 days he monitored the...
The Hope of Audacity
Some academics and critics may sneer at Malcolm Gladwell, but Rachel Toor celebrates the New Yorker writer's love of ideas, his entertaining and inviting writing style -- and, yes, his hair.
A Crowning Indignity
Once at the core of their colleges, faculty members are being marginalized and increasingly ignored by their institutions and, now, by the federal government, Bernard Fryshman argues.
Ask the Administrator: What the Fish?
A new correspondent writes: After recently reading Stanley Fish's NY Times blog on education, I felt moved to write in...