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What Duff Brenna Knows
Duff Brenna’s novels include The Book of Mamie, Too Cool, The Altar of the Body, The Law of Falling Bodies...
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Time Out to Write
It’s crucial to save time for writing and tune out distractions, write Carmen Werder and Karen Hoelscher.
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Liberal Arts II: The Economy Requires Them
Champions of liberal education, often on the defensive, should more strongly argue that their programs prepare students for work and life, Richard Greenwald argues.
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Liberal Arts I: They Keep Chugging Along
The narrative of the decline and fall of humanities and other non-"vocational" fields doesn't hold up to the facts, write W. Robert Connor and Cheryl Ching.
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(What) Can You Read and Write?
Istanbul, Turkey As academics, we are expected to be doing two things on a regular basis: to read a lot...
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What Gorillas Are We Missing?
Before you read this review of The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher F. Chabris...
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Math Geek Mom: Sick Days
I recently taught a class in “linear programming”, in which a (linear) objective function is maximized subject to several constraints...