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• Lesson plans on Ebay?

  
  Voir Dire — Authority: 121
  A NYT article indicates that there is indeed a market for teachers’ lesson plans. Should teachers be allowed to sell lesson plans? Should the schools get a cut? Judging from the number of hits on my webpages to classes I am not currently teaching (I know, I know, I should clean that up and delete them – get off ...
  11 hours ago

• Robert Tsai on ‘Eloquence and Reason’

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 769
  A couple of weeks ago I mentioned a new book on constitutional interpretation and language by my colleague, Washington College of Law professor Robert Tsai — Eloquence and Reason: Creating a First Amendment Culture .  Constitutional rhetoric and interpretation are not my areas, but I started reading the book and ...
  11 hours ago

• Benching the judge-umpire analogy?

  
  Voir Dire — Authority: 121
  Professor Aaron Zelinsky has recently posted “The Justice as Commissioner: Benching the Judge-Umpire Analogy” (forthcoming, Yale Law Journal). Given that this analogy gets tossed around a good bit in Law & Courts and ELS circles, this should be a good conversation starter. At the very least, Voir Dire guest ...
  12 hours ago

• ALL OF WHICH DODGES THE BIG QUESTION...:

  
  BrothersJudd Blog — Authority: 570
  The Three-Year Solution : How the reinvention of higher education benefits parents, students, and schools. (Lamar Alexander , 10/17/09, NEWSWEEK) [S]ome forward-looking colleges like Hartwick are rethinking the old way of doing things and questioning decades-old assumptions about what a college degree means. For ...
  13 hours ago

• Why I Murdered 13 American Soldiers at Fort Hood: Nidal Hassan Explains It All to You

  
  netwmd.com - The War to Mobilize Democracy — Authority: 471
  By Barry RubinHow do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You’ve seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines. But what’s most amazing of all is this:Hassan is the first terrorist in history [...]
  13 hours ago

• Analysis of the Hasan Slide Presentation: Cameron at SWJ

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 124
  Charles Cameron has been guest blogging here on radical Islamism and his last post was a preliminary look at the powerpoint presentation of Major. Nidal Malik Hasan , the shooter in the Ft. Hood massacre.  Charles promised a follow-up here but his next “post” that he submitted was a scholarly, 10,000 ...
  14 hours ago

• Norwegian University gives thumbs down to Boycott Israel

  
  Augean Stables — Authority: 540
  For a fine account of this development, see Trondheim University Unanimously Rejects Boycott of Israel It’s ironic that, just as a major Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions organizing conference is about to take place at Hampshire College, the BDS movement suffered a major setback. The Board of Governors of the ...
  21 hours ago

• FSCONS 2009 part 2 Free Software and Feminism

  
  Digital Rights - Sound and Fury — Authority: 125
  Sunday morning begins at nine with the keynote Free Software and Feminism given by Christina Haralanova . Despite the party last night, the earliness of the hour and the difficulties in getting to the venue on a Sunday there is a good audience which shows the dedication and interest of this public to their cause. ...
  22 hours ago

• Students occupy their universities in Europe

  
  Resistance Studies — Authority: 103
  There is an ongoing wave of student occupations and protest for a free and better university education, and against privatization policies at several European universities, mainly in Germany and Austria. (Not in France yet …). The occupations started at Vienna University the 22 Oct, and has since then spread ...
  1 day ago

• book. done. done?

  
  ads without products — Authority: 419
  OK. So technically done with the book, as of just now. Sort of. Nine straight days of writing, 9 am to 10 pm. Why do these things never end? I’ll probably want to readjust the conclusion, which I really should expand into a proper epilogue, and I have some notes on changes to the beginning. And then there’s the ...
  1 day ago

• Reading While Traveling, Hard Copy and No Internet

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 769
  I’ve been traveling recently, and so have been away from posting.  One of the enforced virtues of traveling — one of the few virtues of traveling for me these days — is the plane flight with no internet.  And if the big guy in front of me reclines his seat, as he always does, I can’t even get to my computer. ...
  1 day ago

• Nerd News: British Academic Bureaucracy Run Amok?

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 484
  Academia is dreadful enough on its own. So is bureaucracy. Now combine the two . Add the element of funding allocation and ...
  1 day ago

• Can I borrow a dollar?

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 129
  The thing with borrowing a buck is its not really a loan. Its a jack; a polite way of asking "can I have?".   When I read a NY Post article announcing that Harvard University was developping a course on HBOs "The Wire", I felt conflicted. How would the shows message and social commentary translate into ...
  1 day ago

• Survey of Philosophers’ normative intuitions

  
  Feminist Philosophers — Authority: 505
  This request is up at Experimental Philosophy: Dear Colleagues, In collaboration with Joe Henrich and Taylor Davis at the University of British Columbia, I’m conducting a study on philosophers’ views about normative judgments.  Joe, Taylor and I would be very grateful if you would participate in our study. ...
  1 day ago

• Read, Type, Fly, Breathe

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 167
  This week is one long series of deadlines and to say I am stretched would be an understatement.On Wednesday I leave for Poland for the second time this year, this time to give a lecture on evangelism Read More......( read more )
  1 day ago

• Read, Type, Fly, Breathe

  
  Caledoniyya — Authority: 115
  This week is one long series of deadlines and to say I am stretched would be an understatement. On Wednesday I leave for Poland for the second time this year, this time to give a lecture on evangelism in the Middle East. It should prove interesting and has already generated a peculiar amount of attention, which ...
  1 day ago

• Alternate Academia

  
  Jules Crittenden — Authority: 706
  Briefly spotted at Harvard University this past week. Crittenden at the Weekly Standard : It was like a fleeting glimpse of an alternative world: the greatness of the past and what might be in the future, brought together for a moment at Harvard University last week. It was the 11th hour of the 11th day of the ...
  1 day ago

• FSCONS part 1

  
  Digital Rights - Sound and Fury — Authority: 125
  Despite being late I made it to the first talk which was by Erik Zachte speaking about Future of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation. He was eloquent and offered both an interesting animated graphical (a la Hans Rosling ) example of the growth of different language groups within Wikipedia. He also offered a ...
  1 day ago

• Profile of the (surprisingly lucrative) university co-op business in Japan

  
  Mutantfrog Travelogue — Authority: 492
  When I did a year-long exchange at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, one of the more interesting entities on campus was the co-op that ran cafeterias and a general merchandise store. Prices were reasonable, the food was excellent, and service was comparatively decent. The store even had an entertaining message board ...
  2 days ago

• A Lovely Evening of Gadgets, Thai Food, and Television

  
  Zemblan Grammar — Authority: 122
  Bonjour, mes ami(e)s! I’m in an excellent mood tonight! Thanks to my friends’ helpful advice and recommendations I went out today and found a great little netbook at a great price and I am happily typing away on it right now! It’s very cute and does everything I need. (One of these , blue, 10″ screen, no the ...
  2 days ago

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