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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.

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Weekend diversion: Happy Thinksgiving.

Category: Passing thoughts

The younger Free-Ride offspring's soccer team has been playing in a regional tournament this weekend, and we're girding our loins and guarding our shins to go out and play a second day of tournament games. I'm happy that they're playing...

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One of the reasons I prefer a whiteboard to a chalkboard.

Category: Personal

Chalk dust thigh: Indeed, this was the state of my pants after I walked partway across campus from my classroom to my office, so the level of chalk dust had decreased from its maximum level when I snapped this picture....

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Random YouTubery video-tainment.

Category: Passing thoughts

It's been a long day, between teaching and attending to committee work, giving a colloquium talk, dealing with an emergency drill, and coming home to make a later-than-planned dinner for the kids (since my better half had to help a...

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An observation about the student papers I'm grading.

Category: Personal

Because, as it happens, I tend to notice patterns in student papers, then end up musing on them rather than, you know, buckling down and just working through the stack of papers that needs grading. In my philosophy of science...

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Snapshots from our weekend.

Category: Passing thoughts

Remember how I mentioned that we had some soccer tournaments this weekend? Well, it looks like we're going to need a bigger shelf....

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'I'm not even supposed to be here today!'

Category: Academia

Since being tenured, I've tried to shift to a pattern of only coming in to campus three days a week, working from home on Mondays and Wednesdays (and giving the earth a little break by not doing my freeway commute...

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Why I'm not grading papers tonight.

Category: Passing thoughts

After my last class today, I participated in a Future Faculty Seminar at Stanford. I was on a panel about negotiating faculty jobs, dealing with the two-body problem while on the academic job market, balancing work and life once you...

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How many papers can (or should) I grade in a sitting?

Category: Academia

Oh joy, it's time to grade more papers! At the moment, in fact, I have two batches of papers (approximately 400 words each, approximately 100 papers per batch) to grade, since I hadn't finished marking the earlier ones before the...

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DonorsChoose 2009 Social Media Challenge: Helping kids at the cost of a little dignity.

Category: Kids and science

At Uncertain Principles, Chad is motivating his readers to donate to his DonorsChoose challenge by offering a big reward: Last year, I famously got $6,000 in contributions by offering to dance like a monkey, but I'm not sure what would...

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DonorsChoose 2009 Social Media Challenge: Did I mention fabulous prizes?

Category: Blogospheric science

You already know that we're working with DonorsChoose to raise some money for public school teachers who are trying to give their students the engaging educational experiences they deserve (and who, owing to dismal state and local budgets, need our...

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