Physicist at Large

I'm going to tread somewhat lightly on some of the issues around student protests, not so much to avoid offense as to focus on bigger-pi...

One point I'm coming to realize is that many of the things that drive me crazy in higher ed come, in part, from a type of restlessness. ...

I have in my "drafts" folder a long post about why higher ed's ongoing struggle to implement "assessment" and all of...

Having noted the problem with under-funding of the fundamentals while the special projects get special treatment, I should note that it is n...

The "Education" part of Higher Education really comprises two different sides.  One side is fairly bread-and-butter, and for the m...

More dark thoughts from grading: You know why Eminem got in so much trouble for The Marshall Mathers LP?  It wasn't for his violent ly...

I'm in a dark mood from grading.  If I have to constantly correct errors of subject-verb agreement in papers written by native English s...