I hate when that happens.
You know, when you're out playing a round of golf and a shark falls from the sky.
Go to eBay. Search clown doll.
Let the nightmares commence.
“If you don’t have enough jobs….you cannot train your way to victory.”
Higher ed is great. It's a public good and a private good. If it weren't for higher ed, I'd have to set my murder mysteries somewhere else. But training displaced workers doesn't make jobs magically appear; not only that, the time spent retraining may have been better spent looking for employment: "What is more surprising …
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The Next Big Thing
As a New York City public school teacher, I’ve been attending meetings for almost three decades. There’s always an urgent problem that absolutely cannot wait. Students need more test prep. Students need less test prep. Teachers must stand. Teachers must not read aloud. Teachers must sit in rocking chairs and read aloud. Students must do …
Aaaaaaauuuuuugh! (Or, if you prefer, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!)
From Discover Magazine online: "Their research is already yielding surprising results. Pace’s studies of residential showers have raised serious concerns that showerheads may act as delivery vehicles for bacteria that cause pulmonary disease. Dunn’s microbial transects of the American house are turning up shocking similarities between the ecosystem of your pillow and that of your …
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Ducks and marriage and evolution and Romans
Am I the only person who thinks that this is deliberate satire, or am I too dim to realize that all of the indignation is also satire? "If you believe in evolution, you can't be in favour of homosexuality, or the ducks will get you in the end." Come on, you guys.
This blue-lightning-shooting Tesla gun is only in the prototype phase…for now.
The Completion Agenda
These universities have signed up for Project Degree Completion, the goal of which is to increase the number of baccalaureate-degree holders by 3.8 million by 2025. I'm sure they've thought through all of the possible consequences of a single-minded focus on increasing the number of college graduates.
Coffee consumption, by profession
Professors are only at number eight.
Looking at cute kittens boosts your productivity at work
Jezebel has the story. Also, I want to publish in the journal Best Science Ever.
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