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I missed this note on Friday at the Wall Street Journal Health Blog but the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has made available some great new curricular resourc
This might be too abstract for a really good Dorky Poll, but I've got a bunch of stuff that I really need to do, and I've been thinking a bit about curricular issues, so this came to mind: Which would you rather know more about, Classical Optics or Thermodynamics?
My guess is that the first faculty meeting after one's sabbatical year is never an easy one, but when that faculty meeting happens during a state budget implosion the likes of which no one can recall, it's kind of like parachuting into an exploding monkey factory. The high point:

What's the point of your recursive blog?