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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Sestina: How to Build a Sestina Template in Microsoft Excel. " Open a new Excel workbook. In cell B1, write your title. Leave row 2 blank. In cells A3 through A8, place the letters A through F. These letters are the cues for your repeating words (teleutons). Leave…
Auto Destruct "[F]or all of Detroit's mistakes, it is also a victim of something it did right: ensuring a middle-class lifestyle for bluecollar workers. When the carmakers, pushed by unions, agreed to provide workers with a steady level of purchasing power, comprehensive health benefits lasting…
Cocktail Party Physics: calculus is craptastic "Few science bloggers have the good fortune to write off a Vegas trip as "research", but that's exactly what it was: my next book for Penguin is all about my experiences as a former English major learning calculus, inspired by a series of blog posts…
Street Corner Science with Leon Lederman | ScienCentral In which a Nobel laureate answers science questions on the streets of Manhattan. (tags: science physics education video internet society culture) 'Physics for Future Presidents' :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News,…