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Category Archives: Academic Life
Remember the… the… Something
Having just shared mind mapping, one of my favorite note-taking and memorizing techniques, with my Comp II classes this week, I was really struck with Joshua Foer’s TED Talk on memory feats. It’s worth twenty minutes of your time, I … Continue reading
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Kansas English Article
Article that appeared in Fall 2013 issue of Kansas English Feed the Birds: The Place of Arts Education in a Time of Scarcity The central question toward the end of Mary Poppins hinges on how Michael Banks spends his treasured … Continue reading
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Have You Ever Felt Like a Fraud?
In one of his stories, the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima describes the work of students as a very clever exercise in fraud: The adults demanded that everything we absorbed within those confines should be ‘worthwhile.’ So, quite naturally, we learned … Continue reading
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Peer-Reviewed Peril
I know you’ve been told to rely on the best sources, the peer reviewed journal articles. Then I read material suggesting that many scientific journal articles, which record experimental results, cannot have their results reproduced in independent labs. The unspoken … Continue reading