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More Than a Paycheck
The message that higher education matters for the working class only for economic reasons shortchanges them and liberal studies, writes Mike Rose.
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If Only We Had a Government Capable of Making Rules...
As regular readers know, I used to work in for-profit university. I fled it for various reasons, but still find...
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Information Ethics, Blogging, and the Non-Fiction Novel
I just had to do some housecleaning among my RSS feeds. Some of my favorite blogs had moved from Scienceblogs...
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Be Careful What You Wish For
My career has always been important to me, but I never wanted it to dominate my personal life. Early on...
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Math Geek Mom: "It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood…"
There is a concept in mathematics that shows up in calculus and geometry, the concept of a "neighborhood." Like its...
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Pacific Rim views on global education: Hong Kong+Seattle
Editor's note: this guest entry was kindly produced by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, as well as...
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Are These the Lessons Learned by the Demise of Google Wave?
What do we learn from Google's decision to kill the Wave ? Perhaps next time we will curb our enthusiasm...
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What Was It Now? Oh, Yes: Memory
A piece in the Times recently was titled “ The Web Means the End of Forgetting.” Thank god, we’ll finally...