He taught ethics classes in California! LA Times —Law School Dean Fired for Plagiarism Similar:Reporters accurately repeat what VP spokesperson says; different official cites "misreport…The media reports that on an official tr…Current_EventsMyths about "Learning Styles Persist in SocietyI first heard the formalized theories ab…AcademiaJust finished a good literature class discussion on this powerful play.Would love…
“Handwriting is a basic skill that serves us all our lives. Unfortunately, a problem that primarily affects boys is rarely on anyone’s list of educational priorities.” Christina Hoff Summers —The Write Stuff Similar:Orson Scott Card Builds an EmpireVideo games are a viable storytelling me…CybercultureHow to Think Like ShakespeareSaving this for the next time I teach…
“[O]nce you have observed that the other is typically portrayed as lazy, dirty, stupid, crafty, womanly, passive, rebellious, sexually rapacious, childlike, enigmatic and a number of other mutually contradictory epithets, it is hard to know what to do next apart from reaching for yet another textual illustration of the fact.” London Review of Books —The…
Too much information? “[T] this weed in our informational landscape has just sprouted–it is only about 50 years old. Up until then, more information was almost always a good thing.” David Shenk —Data Smog Similar:Watched "Apollo 11" at local library with my son today50 years ago today, three humans were on…Culture14 Machines That Were Brilliant…
“Log onto almost any college Web site and you’ll see the same beautiful students talking about their beautiful campuses and how much they learn. But there are no numbers, no studies, no objective measurements.” —Wash. Monthly —What Do the US News Rankings Measure? Similar:Darkest Hour (2017)I’m not a huge fan of war movies, but my…CultureCode…
“Hey, all you crafty, capable women wearing chunky, horn-rimmed glasses (this year) and doing your brainy chick thing…” Hank Stuever, Wash. Post —Velma Rules — Jinkies! Similar:Major benefits for students who attend live theater, study findsI wonder what additional measurable bene…CultureThe Mystery of Charles Dickens by Joyce Carol OatesDickens is so brilliant a stylist, his…
Failed to Practise What It Preached The magazine that chronicled the excesses of the dot.com revolution did not spot the extravagances that led to its own downfall. Mark Tran —Industry Standard Similar:My laptop hard drive is full & my comfort-food shelf is emptyMy laptop drive is full & my comfort…CultureCanada's Globe and Mail Uses Expandable…
Include Your Children when Baking Cookies New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half —Real Headlines Similar:The Problem with Quotes on the InternetAmusingFraternity Announces "Legal Action" Against Rolling Stone”The Rolling Stone article viewed by mil…AcademiaStar Trek Personality Test –Star Trek Personality Test Apparentl…AmusingAt Home In Fantasy's Nerd-Built…
Despite the technological hoopla, nobody’s paying attention to e-books but the courts. “Digitizing the printed page has put the very nature of books up for grabs, unleashing heated battles among writers, readers, librarians and technologists over who should control electronic books.” Chicago Tribune —E-Books Solving a Problem Consumers Don’t Have. Similar:Why We’ll Never Live in…
Not-Work: “CNN acts like they’re the network of record in Millennial America, just because of their award-winning Gulf War coverage. That was so 10 years ago, and people only watched because there was no MSNBC back then.” The Onion —CNN Should be Named the Crappy News Similar:Flannery O'Connor: "I am in a state of shock"There’s…
At first, Huck Finn said “as if” instead of “like,” “wasn’t” and not “warn’t,” and described a night sky “sprinkled”–not “speckled”–with stars. A new edition of the American classic traces Mark Twain’s efforts to refine the speech of his most famous character. LA Times —A New Read on Huck Finn’s Distinctive Voice Similar:Knowing Poe [Annotated…
(Watch them instead.) “Create a few alternative designs, show them to a group of users, and ask which one they prefer. Wrong. If the users have not actually tried to use the designs, they’ll base their comments on surface features.” Jakob Nielsen —First Rule of Usability? Don’t Listen to Your Readers. Similar:No, Running Online…
At a graveyard near where Beatrix Potter (author of the “Peter Rabbit” stories) spent her youth: “Names on headstones included Mr Nutkin, Mr McGregor, Jeremiah Fisher, Tommy Brock – and even a Peter Rabbett.” BBC —But what about Jemima Puddle-Duck? Similar:Why Is Othello Black?To us today, the word “black” carries wi…CultureUChicago College Admissions, Indiana Jones…
“A modern language changes when we change it, and the metaphor that makes it autonomous only obscures our real task, which is to consider just how and why we change it.” Mark Halpern Similar:The girl sank her brother's last ship with the homophonous cry "I-1."AmusingActors can't play Hamlet as simply mad in world of mental…
“Author Jessica Kingley expressed regret Monday that she had ‘pretty much used up all the hardship‘ from her early life in her recent first novel Bitter Root, leaving her nothing to write about for her follow-up book.” The Onion Similar:Advice to First Year College Students on Freshman CompFull disclosure… I have marked AP Engl…AcademiaMoonBot is…
That said, we’ve decided to acknowledge our very favorite Web sites—five each in 10 subject areas—with the Scientific American.com Sci/Tech Web Award. It is an eclectic mix—from the practical to the academic to the downright silly. Among this year’s winners are sites that decode computer acronyms, explain group theory, unravel the genome, track chemistry in…
The second most popular form of entertainment after television, video games have rapidly become the largest segment of the entertainment industry. Mounting evidence lends support to what parents have suspected all along — violent videogames encourage violent behavior. Contemporary Pediatrics Similar:Fascination (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 10) Comic crush after crush; that's…Rewatching ST:DS9 A…
: “Every report you ever write from this day until the day you die should start out by saying something nice about the product or service you are reviewing. Then you can get down to business.” Tog —How to Deliver a Report Without Getting Lynched Similar:Predatory Journals Hit By 'Star Wars' StingI’ve been contacted by…
. Painfully funny small-town satire from The Onion. —Wal-Mart Opens Store in Winesburg, Ohio Similar:Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright caseFair use is a concept baked into US copy…BooksAfter a productive run-through of West Side Story, the girl decided to slide out from unde…AmusingRobots Are Coming for Our PoemsThe robots are…
“If anything, the recent expansion of literacy and educational opportunities has increased our access to literature and our enjoyment of it.” J. Peder Zane —What Good is Literature? Similar:FDR in AnnieI’ve accepted the role of FDR in the upc…CultureRobert Morris University to offer video game scholarshipsRobert Morris University’s video game sc…AcademiaLooking forward to Part 2…