science-professor.blogspot.com - 2/22/2009
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This post could also be called "Earth to Professors", as it is about the different planes (spheres?) of existence of most students as compared to most professors. It is not surprising of course that there are gaps in experiences and expectations between students and professors, yet from what ...
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blog.wired.com - 2/19/2009
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Don't take a Senator's word for it. Old
Google Earth satellite photos, dug up by the News...
of Pakistan, show U.S. drones, parked on a Pakistani runway, back in 2006. The paper ID's the robotic planes as massive Global Hawk...
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Google Earth Shows U.S. Drones at Pakistani Base?
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Veal: It’s what’s for dinner!
Unqualified Offerings —
By Thoreau See, I’m not the only one complaining about Generation Veal: A week or so ago a student came to talk to me about her quiz. She pointed to one question that I had put at the very beginning as a confidence booster/at-least-I-will-get-some-points-even-if-I-can’t-answer-any-other-questions kind of question. It was a question that 99% of the class got right, just not this student. I was amazed that a living human being in college could miss this question. She said “That’s a random fact that I just didn’t happen to memorize. I didn’t know you were going to ask us about ...
Reason Morning Links: Pot, Pirates, and Pipe Bomb Dreams
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... • The Senate says no to the Fairness Doctrine. • The BBC's covert war on pirate radio. • Egyptian diplomacy pays off in Palestine. • Chris Dillow defends our irrational animal spirits. • Notes from the grading wars. • Airport police make amazing discovery: That bike is not, in fact, a pipe bomb.
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