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Got a postcard!
I received a postcard from profgrrrrl from her trip to Taiwan yesterday and, as promised in the sign-up, I’ve scanned both sides. Here they are:
Redemption
So the news today is filled with the revelation that former FBI No. 2 Mark Felt was Woodward and Bernstein’s Deep Throat, the anonymous source for much of their Watergate coverage. I expect that we’ll first see the lionization of Felt for being a whistleblower. Regardless of the putative motivation (in one version, revenge at […]
My hat is off to those who work at home…
One of the joys of academic life is the freedom to schedule one’s life, such as the time I spent this morning at my children’s schools, shuttling between the party in my son’s fourth-grade class and the end-of-year celebration at my daughter’s middle school. So they’re home this afternoon, releasing some energy by playing together […]
Dis-positioning the institution
Today, Brooklyn College historian KC Johnson dissed colleges of education for collecting evidence of student dispositions, claiming that the response to NCATE’s push for evidence about dispositions is part of the leftward tilt of campuses. Hmmm… While there certainly are examples of silly institutions trying to cram ideologies down the necks of students, such as […]
Blog research
By Sherman Dorn on June 24, 2005
At MIT, Cameron Marlow is working on a social-network dissertation with blog authors as the target population. Want to help?
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