He taught ethics classes in California! LA Times —Law School Dean Fired for Plagiarism Similar:KTVU Buries News of Asiana Airlines Lawsuit over Fake Pilot NamesLast week, the Fox-afiliated KTVU fell f…BusinessAcademics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writingToday I met a class of English majors wh…AcademiaThe problem with blog comments, in 5 images.After I…
“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:Why the British Tell Better Children’s StoriesIf Harry Potter and Huckleberry Finn wer…BooksMy journalism students just gave me this wristband: "What would Jerz…
“[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:TARDIS from today's 3D printing class.AestheticsThe Most Epic Demo in Computer History Is Now an OperaThis is nice, but what I…
“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:CNN employees resign after retracted articleCNN is pretty upfront; three journalists…BusinessNYT: G.W.…
“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:Annie — Cabinet TomorrowMy 10yo daughter Carolyn played Annie in…AmusingUnderstanding Shakespeare: "Pick a play. Click a line…"Pick a play. Click a line. Instantly see…CultureTwo Trains Running ( #AugustWilson #CenturyCycle,…
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:A WELL HOUSE FOR A LARGE SPRINGI was digging through my archives and ca…AestheticsThe magic of words opens a whole new world of funEmily…
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:Spring 2023 Grades: Submitted! (I only had 3 last-minute submissions to mark today.)AcademiaWashington Post Cartoonist Who Quit Over Bezos Cartoon Wins Pulitzer PrizeFormer Washington Post cartoonist Ann Te…CultureUpdated a "Gender Neutral…
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:In July, 2002, I was…
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:Is Superman the next Drudge? Clark Kent quits newspapers…
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:'Robot Journalist' Out-Writes…
(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:Internet Explorer and…
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:The Great Gatsby Character Map SomethingSoSam.AestheticsCommonly Misused Words: THAN and THEN AmusingHow Zuckerberg’s Facebook is…
“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:Addressing Our Biases: Medieval BathingDid medieval people bathe? If you alr…CultureMy meeting was cancelled, so I spent the morning assembling a cabinet…
“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:Troy Sterling and the Active and Passive VerbsJerz > Writing > Grammar…AestheticsHappy U.S. citizenship, Dr. Garcia-Quismondo @SHUHumanities @Setonhill AcademiaJustin…
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:Merchant of Venice Part 2 live, now! #PPTPlaytimeDrama1,000-pound rosary sends heavy message: PrayThe rosary that…
: “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:WordPress 3.8 “Parker”No time to play with this, but looking…
. Painfully funny small-town satire from The Onion. —Wal-Mart Opens Store in Winesburg, Ohio Similar:No, the Fed Did Not Just Give Stock Traders $1.5 TrillionI don’t know that much about the world o…BusinessA surprising detail in bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Iris…A scholar uses bank records to track the…BusinessCarolyn performed…
“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:Seton Hill Student Journalists Launch Local Election Coverage Students in my journalism class are pu…AcademiaPoetry Out Loud : Learning RecitationI’m one of the judges in a “Poetry…