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A Liberal-Arts Education for Business Majors

The world needs well-rounded leaders. A liberal arts degree encourages the kind of critical thinking that breeds managers and CEOs.…

• Personal

Another homeschool year ends successfully. Here are the kids with their external evaluator, Susan Richman.

• Personal

Nerdling spots typo in space exploration textbook.

• Culture
• Drama
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The Course of True Fun Never Did Run Smooth: A Midsummer Night’s Dwarf Fortress Reflection

I am in rehearsals to play Oberon in a community theatre production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. He is a…

• Aesthetics
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• PopCult
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Blade Runner | Typeset In The Future

This is nerd heaven -- a deep analysis of all the text that appears in the 1980s cult science-fiction film…

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• PopCult
• SciFi

A selfie with a Chekov action figure after learning of Anton Yelchin’s death

• Personal

“Moorish girl” in Man of La Mancha. (Vulcan Moorish girl.)

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There was a hand, too. Did you bring the hand?

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Facebook is predicting the end of the written word

Facebook's video push threatens the edited TV news package as much as it threatens the written word. I've definitely noticed…

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• Language
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Study confirms that ending your texts with a period is terrible.

Language evolves, so oldsters like me should get just used to it, right? Well, langauge was evolving long before "text"…