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Interesting Pedagogy

Duke students, you’re on notice: A Dartmouth professor is going after students who disagreed with her in class. The Wall Street Journal, not unexpectedly, is beside itself with glee.

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They’re on to Me

A mere fifteen years after the fact, colleges are realizing I scored a 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam without knowing any calculus whatsoever.

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Wednesday Night Links: 8,000 Barrels, 0.000025%, 3,387 Men, $100 Bills, and More

* Over a longer time span, say a decade, we would expect about 19 spill incidents with an aggregate spill volume of about 8,000 barrels, enough to fill about half of an Olympic-sized swimming pool.  We...

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And Somehow Even More Still for Friday

* Cut from the top to save UC. The current University of California Office of the President, or UCOP, is a labyrinthine bureaucracy that takes money from the 10 campuses where actual teaching and...

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All The Links

* CFP reminder: “SF/F Now” and “Irradiating the Object” at the University of Warwick, August 2014. Proposals due March 31. * Legendary science fiction editor Gardner Dozois once said that the job of a...

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gerrycanavan.com Is Pleased to Offer This Sunday Reading Experience

* The schedule for the final third of my Cultural Preservation course. This has been one of the best teaching experiences I’ve ever had; I’m hoping things go as well next spring when I do it all again....

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Almost Too Many Thursday Links, Really, If You Ask Me

* Extrapolation is seeking essays for a special issue on Indigenous Futurism, edited by Grace L. Dillon, Michael Levy and John Rieder. * Designing for The Grand Budapest Hotel. * No state worse than...

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They’re on to Me

A mere fifteen years after the fact, colleges are realizing I scored a 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam without knowing any calculus whatsoever.

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Midweek Links!

* Truly, this is the best of all possible worlds: X-Wing, Tie Fighter Are FINALLY Getting Digital Re-Releases. I don’t meant to brag but I was the very very best in the world at this game, back when....

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Wednesday Night Links!

* How Bad Was It? Mitch McConnell Triumphant. Losers, not unlucky. And they probably managed to pre-lose the Senate in 2016 in the bargain. If you want a vision of the future. Decision 2014: The...

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Black Friday Links! Will Not Save You Money!

* The “Buffy at 20″ special issue of Slayage is out, with an introduction by me and James South, interviews on the future of Whedon Studies with Rhonda Wilcox and Sherryl Vint, and seven terrific...

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