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If You Give a Prof a Project...

(hat-tip to Laura Numeroff's If You Give a Moose a Muffin...) If you give a prof a project, he'll want...

Free beer!

Well, maybe not free beer where you are right now, but I do promise free beer to anyone who shows...

Kindle for the Academic

Alex Golub reviews the advantages (and a few limitations, at least for now) of e-book readers.

Brief But Notable

Upon receiving word Sunday that a brief essay of mine had been listed as notable in the new Best American...

Gravity

If I had plenty of ambition and no conscience at all, this would be my plan to get my cc...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Remembering a Master Teacher

I learned a few days ago that one of my high school teachers, Otis Benson Davis, died last week. O.B...

What the Research Says

Peg Boyle Single explains why you need to write regularly, write in the morning and get over the quest for the perfect word.

Retention Matters

Those freshmen who don't come back aren't just an issue for public institutions, but are a key factor for privates as well, writes Bryan Matthews.