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Studying the Inhumanities

A new collection documents the American policy of cruel and inhumane "non-torture." Scott McLemee takes a look.
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Ad Hoc Extra Credit

No. Oh God, no. No, no, no. Nein. Nyet. Non. Huh-uh. Negative. I'll qualify that. Extra credit that's built into...
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Passwords

There has to be a better way. I have what seems like thirty thousand logins, each requiring its own username...
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Academic Advising by a Bot

Jonathan Deutsch shares his recent online discussion with a company promising to find him the perfect distance education program.
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Professor Lipton

It's specious, writes Philip Larkin in his fear-of-death poem, Aubade, for philosophers to tell us that No rational being Can...
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Diamonds in the Rough

For all the frustrations students sometimes give their professors, Christopher Phelps writes of the way some of them inspire.
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Public Scholarship at CC's

This is really an exercise in idea-stealing, rather than a developed thought. Have you seen (or do you work at)...
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My Funky Easy 1-Question (Okay, 2) Sociological Survey

I can explain later (or not), but I'm quite serious. Please answer the following: John or Paul, and why?