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Gigabit Web, South Korea, and the Coming Asian EDU Century

"By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one...
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Friday Fragments

--I’m officially tired of using the wet/dry vac on the basement floor. Anytime this winter would like to go away...
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Hacking the Academic Press: or Herding Pushmi-Pullyus

The Association of American University Presses has just released a report, Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses...
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Lessons on Health and Well-Being for Academics

My university has one of the worst health records around. In the past five years, four colleagues and two staff...
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Math Geek Mom: Labor Economics

I am commonly struck with a mixture of pride, relief and fear when I hand in my column each week...
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Postmodern practice

David Roberts has an interesting post on Grist, asking whether climate change denialism has roots in postmodern theory. In general...
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The Wrong Approach on NCAA Rules

Toughening the association's eligibility standards for freshmen by reinstating a test score cutoff would discriminate against athletes ill-served by their high schools, writes Bradley Bethel.
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Motherhood After Tenure: Dear Danya, Lisa, and Melissa, and Trina,

Dear Danya, Lisa, and Melissa, and Trina, As I reel from tonight’s events in the Wisconsin capitol, as well as...