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The Distraction Attraction
A lesson in Ethan Tussey’s The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of Downtime is that a large, voracious and profitable cultural apparatus is absorbing and monetizing every second of your attention, writes Scott McLemee.
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Subverting That End-of-Semester Exhaustion
Some experiments for creating schedules that may lessen the physical and emotional exhaustion so common at the end of the spring semester.
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This Elevator Called Life
Marking the floors between what you should do and what you want to in graduate schoo.
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Walking Around a Problem
In their haste to deal with a problem quickly, deans shouldn't forget the importance of examining it from many different angles, write Carolyn R. Hodges and Olga M. Welch.
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Inadvertently Touched by Scandal
Masha Fedzechkina speaks out on behalf of those scholars who have happened to work with those accused of sexual harassment.
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5 Reasons Why College Hosted Professional Meetings Are Awesome
Are higher ed communities of practice changing how they gather?