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What does a professor do, other than lecture for a few hours a week?

5 years ago

Wow, this response! 😮 We really do have complex jobs, huh? My doctoral research was on burnout, & I won't…

In June, 2001 it seems I only blogged three times…

5 years ago

I'm not sure what else I was doing during the month of June 2001, but I only blogged three times.…

The Internet Is Rotting

5 years ago

I do what I can. It's disheartening how, in the past three or so years, several of my free instructional…

Ensign Ro (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 3) New Bumpy-nosed Officer Is Stubborn

5 years ago

Rewatching ST:TNG Picard is ordered to accept a bumpy-nosed humanoid officer who didn't want to be transferred to the Enterprise…

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial and Museum

5 years ago

Another visit to Pittsburgh with my history-loving son.

We Tried to Do Vanlife Right. It Broke Us Down.

5 years ago

Shortly before I got married, my sister rented an RV and we spent a couple weeks driving around Arizona and…

Darmok (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 2) Picard of the Federation, His Metaphors Timely

5 years ago

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation After an awkward encounter with aliens whose language is incomprehensible, Picard finds himself on…

Redemption, Part II (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 5, Episode 1) Klingon Empire Wages Civil War

5 years ago

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation The teaser opens with Worf serving on Kurn's ship, and being scolded for second-guessing…

Steampunk flag for the United States of Britannia (from the alternate history my kids and I made up during bedtime stories)

5 years ago

In the steampunk world my kids and I made up for bedtime stories (from about 2007-2013), Benjamin Franklin's discovery of…

A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark

5 years ago

Yet another widely held cultural myth falls to the cold hard power of actual research. During the 1940 Blitzkrieg, the Luftwaffe often struck…

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