Opinion

Little did Jagger and Richards know that their 1965 hit would become a meaningful metaphor for a twenty-first century conundrum involving the law, technology, user norms and the market.

By Tracy Mitrano

Much of the attention over Apple's education announcements yesterday has focused on digital textbooks. But that was just one of two initiatives the company unveiled. The other was a revamped iTunes U. Here's a hands-on look at what's new in what Apple calls "the world's largest catalog of free educational content."

By Audrey Watters

After investing nearly 16 years in a full-time faculty job, Carolyn Foster Segal gives it up -- and suggests that others ask some hard questions before taking jobs like hers.

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Apple’s latest foray into the education market caught my eye. It’s promising, but I can’t get past some sticking points.

By Dean Dad

The Calculus book I use sometimes uses intricate algebra to find very involved ways to present an answer in the simplest form. Although I encourage students to manipulate terms to see how they arrived at the given answers, I sometimes find myself telling my students that “the meaning of life is not to match the answer in the back of the book.” This, of course, avoids the question of exactly what the meaning of life is. I thought of this recently as I spent a lovely afternoon with a friend and her daughter watching a production

By Rosemarie Emanuele

The Inference Engine anticipated much of what Apple announced in NYC on Thursday. Some interesting questions remain.

By Kenneth C. Green

Katharine Hayhoe is an associate professor of geoscience at Texas Tech, a climate researcher who has suggested the northeastern USA prepare for hotter summers and shorter winters, and the deeply Christian wife of an evangelical preacher. She was invited by Newt Gingrich's co-author to contribute the opening chapter on climate change to an upcoming book on environmental entrepreneurship. Of course, that was before Newt decided to run for the presidency, felt the need to atone for his moment on the couch with Nancy Pelosi, determined that "conservatism" referred to conserving destructive momentum rather than conserving the earth, and spiked Hayhoe's chapter which explained why environmental entrepreneurs were any more valuable than the inventor of the next pet rock or chia head.

By G. Rendell