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A Correction: I’ve Been Misquoted
On Thursday, 3 February of this year I was called by Saginaw News reporter Deborah Brown, who asked me, among other things, about claims made by folks like Al Gore…
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College Graduates Are Academically Adrift
Repost I meant for this to run two days, but events overtook. Therefore, I'm restoring it to the top for the remainder of the day. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on…
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TSA Expands Jurisdiction To Sidewalks: Where Is The Left?
"Sir? Please step over here. You need to be x-rayed." "What? Get outta my way. Who are you?" said the man. "Sir, please step over to the machine. You have…
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Earthquake Ghouls, Colleges As High Schools, The Robinson DeFazio Controversy, More
J-school Ghouls On the radio, a female American reporter in Tokyo, unnecessarily breathless and somewhat disappointed. "I can only imagine if it were here, it would have been much worse…
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Obama’s Faulty Pay Gap Statistics, Philosophy Of Abortion; Plus, The End Of The World
Deadline: 21 May 2011 Family Radio Worldwide has hit the road (in a bunch of mobile homes) to preach that the end shall come just over two months from now.…
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Freeman Dyson, NPR, TSA X-rays, Northwestern University’s Bachelor Party
The Lady Tasting Tea continues tomorrow. Freeman Dyson Speaks From our man-on-the-spot WS comes this link to an interview with Freeman Dyson regarding his work "In Praise of Heretics." That…
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Posthuman Exopedagogy: Teachers To Use Wolf Boys, UFOs, Monsters To Boost Learning
What I am about to show you was bound to happen. Inna Semetsky has reviewed Tyson Lewis and Richard Kahn's new book, Education Out of Bounds: Reimagining Cultural Studies for…
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University Professors Teach Too Much: Part I
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. We are asking our best university professors to spend too much time in the classroom. It would be better for all…
