I spent the last two days in Philadelphia first with some amazing Philadelphia school district high school students who were receiving awards for their accomplishments and then with two of our students who will be going on a 3 and 6 month internship in China. On the way home I […]
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Francis Collins is not only (or was) the head of the Human Genome Institute, he is also a convert to Christianity. He wrote The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (which leads me to make two observations [1] we know it is scholarly because there is a […]
I have mentioned before that I have used Nisus Writer for years (my doctoral thesis and book were written in it). Although I still use Word for collaborative projects, to make sure comments can be read, etc. I love NWP, use it, and support it whenever I can. (It has […]
I now have twenty different images that I use for headers. Rather than having to refresh each time to see them, I thought I would create a gallery for those who would like to peruse the images. All photos were taken by me and I am happy to provide full […]
This Calvin & Hobbes series is one of my favorites. Mostly because I did once have my pants rip during recess on a day when I was wearing little cars underpants. But the punchline to this story is appropriate given a conversation earlier today regarding the discernment process.
We are hosting our Big 10 colleagues in honors education today. Given this event, I thought I would I would repost from my SHC PSU blog this entry from last year. I will write more later since we are addressing the difficult challenge of admissions process and I think many […]
This op-ed piece surprised me. The authors Nathan Thrall and Jesse James Wilkins (great name that is) do a nice job of bringing out the complexities of negotiating with foreign powers with whom one is in conflict using JFK as the example. The conclusion: If Barack Obama wants to follow […]
I have not had time to post in several weeks. I am encouraged and more than a bit humbled to see how many folks are still checking in daily and I apologize for not providing new content. Once we get past this week, however, I should be posting more regularly […]
RealLife by Greg Dean. A great strip, for those who enjoy webcomics and don’t know his work, by all means bookmark it now! (BTW I forgot to hand out my evaluation forms to my students…)
We just saw the movie and I thought I would jot a few thoughts down. First, they took great liberties with the story, but as a movie it was very, very good. Second, I am not sure how many liberties they took; I am going to have to go back […]