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I hate it when clarity dawns ... and reveals to you that the last ten pages you wrote are exactly wrong wrong wrongity wrong. Such is life, ...

Apparently UC Berkeley has assembled a task force on textbook affordability . (No evidence yet, so far as I can see, of a task force on not ...

Pitch received from my alumni association: One of these lists is not like the others. The U of C is a leader in Nobel Prizes, Fulbright scho...

Later it struck me that the best history of painting in London was the National Gallery, and that the best history of literature, more parti...

"Ilse and I had a fight yesterday about which we'd rather be Joan of Arc or Frances Willard . We didn't begin it as a fight but...

It's not what it used to be. (TM) Steven Shapin, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (Chicago: U of Chicago ...

Do not attempt to operate your phone charger if it has received a sharp blow, been dropped, thrown from a speeding motorcycle or is otherwi...

It must be exasperating to be a composition student. I am not saying this sarcastically; I mean it. At Cal, I'm blessed with smart, high...

Elliott Coues , 1842-1899 Coues was an ornithologist, naturalist, and (according to Wikipedia) army surgeon. I first ran across him in Frede...

Marianne Moore wrote in 1925: In 1854, in a report made by the librarian of The Astor Library, New York City -- we read: "The young fr...

Every day on the way to my office I pass by a nail salon with the best disembodied hand display I have ever seen. It really makes me want to...

Baking with the correct brand of yeast makes you practically an oncologist.