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Prepare to Repel Researchers!

An interesting question came up the other day on COLLIB-L, a discussion list for college librarians. A librarian reported that...
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Spiked Cities

I’ve been a fan of Richard Florida’s for several years now. He’s a student of cities who has famously argued...
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Google+ and the LMS: Ads and Education

The Google news this week is all about Google+, the company's next effort to break into social networks. I say...
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Motherhood After Tenure: Marriage Re-examined

The first round of divorces hit our social community this year, prompting questions from our seven-year old daughter: "Will you...
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Plagiarism, Process, and the Point

This exchange from The New Inquiry has been wending its way around the intertubes of late. (Thanks to @colinized on...
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Journal 21

Subtract 30 seconds from my 15 minutes of fame: In the Italian deli with family friends. An old woman walks...
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The Professor as Entrepreneur

There has been a great deal of discussion around the idea of entrepreneurship in higher education. At the University of...
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Fueling Creativity

A new approach to literary criticism looks at the history of energy sources. Scott McLemee checks its mileage.