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A CALAMITOUS DAY unto me! 26 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
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Let’s make education more like a business 25 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
Yahoo executives at a retreat How would we do that? Let’s try to learn from those innovators in places like Redmond and Palo Alto, shall we? Recognize that “stack ranking”-style review systems for ...
A Major Problem you wish you had, or, Historiann-thologized, again! 24 Aug 2013 | 02:32 am
This is what’s called a super-slow rollout, folks: a chapter from my book Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (2007) has been excerpted for inclusion in the latest edition of Maj...
Looking for sexism in the coverage of women candidates for office? Try a mirror. 21 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
Editor and Publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel writes that the U.S. needs more women in elective office: Will shattering the Oval Office’s glass ceiling and electing a madam president be an...
David McCullough beats the dead like they owe him money. 20 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
I don’t know why I find this Onion article so funny and yet feel so awkward laughing at it at the same time (h/t anonymous, who put this link in my comments yesterday.) Historians and other humanists...
Another reason to question the Lords of MOOC Creation 15 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
Go read Michael Lind on the inevitable fallibility of our modern political and media elites. I think there’s something in there that speaks to the pump-and-dump cycle we’re seeing now with MOOCs: Th...
“Opting back in” is SO much less sexy than “opting out,” apparently. 8 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
Judith Warner on “The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In:” Why isn’t this story getting all the attention that Lisa Belkin’s “Opting Out” story got a decade ago? The 22 women I interviewed, for the mo...
Nelson Muntz has the last laugh. 7 Aug 2013 | 06:52 pm
HA-ha!: Geoffrey Miller, a psychology professor, has been censured by the University of New Mexico, two months after he sent out a fat-shaming Twitter post that caused an angry Internet uproar. It m...
Word to your mother 5 Aug 2013 | 01:14 am
Dr. Crazy: Note to all y’all bloggy readers who are mothers of daughters: when they get to be 38-going on 39-years old? And when they tell you to stop riding them like they are fucking teenagers? L...
All the single ladies, part ZOMGeleventy!!111!!! 3 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
Psssssst! This is a clue. Today’s post is about all of those “ZOMG college women having sexxay sexxxx with totally undeserving d00ds!!!! (and p.s. I’m bitter that I, the author of these articles, nev...
