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Undergrad Seminar: Why Incompletes Are So Dangerous
Here we are in the 2nd half of the academic year. If the 1st half got off to a rocky start, maybe this is a good time to talk about time management. Not the “The 7 habits of that smugly overambitious...
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Undergrad Seminar: How long should this paper be?
Every student wants to know “How long should this paper be?” I think that’s a pretty reasonable question, but for some reason instructors sometimes treat this question like one of the deadly sins....
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How to Get Deported for Christmas
File this one under…I don’t know what. My story begins with the desire to get cheap airplane tickets to visit our family in Germany this winter. Simple: Leave at an uncomfortable hour, fly...
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Here we are in the 2nd half of the academic year. If the 1st half got off to a rocky start, maybe this is a good time to talk about time management. Not the “The 7 habits of that smugly overambitious...
View ArticleBoldly go Towards Collaboration
Nicholas A Christakis’ story in the NY Times is serious food for thought. Christakis starts “Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences” with the following: TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when I was a graduate...
View ArticleTrying to Out the CIA, and Other Musings about Ethnography.com
Last June, I published an article about the role of the CIA in the post-World War II world order. I rather liked it, but no one seems to read it! So here’s a link, so that anyone who follows...
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