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‘Entrepreneurship’ is a fashionable thing nowadays, but it’s often forgotten that ‘entrepreneurship’ as an aim unto itself is vaporous since ‘entrepreneurship’, on its own, is immaterial. It’s an important conduit to making useful things happen, no doubt, but to call oneself an ‘entrepreneur’ is like …

Lost in the Thanksgiving shuffle was the hundredth birthday of Claude Lévi-Strauss, an event which occasioned national celebration in France. And this sounds like the most insane TV marathon I’ve ever heard of: On Thursday, from noon to midnight, ARTE, a French-German cultural television channel, …

145. The Odour. How sweetly doth ‘My Master’ sound! ‘My Master!’ As amber-greese leaves a rich scent Unto the taster, So do these words a sweet content, An orientall fragrancie, ‘My Master.’ With these all day I do perfume my minde, My mind ev’n thrust into them both; That I might finde What cordials make this curious broth, This broth of smells, that feeds and fats my minde. …

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This blog takes me weird places. So the first thing I did at Harvard was clean Cabot House for a week under the tutelage of Garrett Dash Nelson and Matt Sundquist. Which was odd, because I had a number of mutual friends with those hooligans and, moreover, they're regular liberal blog readers who had read my stuff at TAPPED, Ezra's and here.

s better for students than Teach for America, as its graduates actually have teaching experience before graduating, and they aren’t encouraged to leave after only two years. But it’s better for teachers too. They gain a far better understanding of what is really needed for their students to succeed, and they have enough humility to know that their Harvard A.B. isn’t a magical balm for the underprivileged. If Harvard students–or any other college students, for that matter

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select up to 10 colors for your search (go play, if you have never tried it, and please don’t blame me for the amount of time you will be spending there today!). Anyhoo…I remembered the conversation last night because of Garrett’s comment below: It is easy to forget how important color is in our world - this may seem strange coming out of the mouth of someone who has been wearing black (exclusively) for the past 2 decades but… color unifies us. My conversation with Daniela was not so much

Thank you Garrett!

Legion] Thanks to Garrett over at the new(-ish) Harvardian-run blog Legion for pointing out this seriously awesome use of Flickr and image-matching algorithms. The tool lets you search Flickr for photos that are predominantly one color, or a small palette of

Markus Kolic writes: Garrett is quite right to accuse the “Equity Project” and its Crimson promoters of a sneering elitism and a misapprehension of the nature of teaching. (This also applies, incidentally, to Teach for America, a reprehensible organization which embodies ev

“Baby Obi Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope!” “Harvard for Change” TONIGHT!!!!!!! Canvass in New Hampshire for Obama This Weekend! Campaign in Battleground States on Election Day! State of the Union: Mexico’s Teachers Revolt This guy can eat