We are starting a podcast at our new Schreyer Honors College website engage.shc.psu.edu and the first one, from me!, is available here. (You will need iTunes.)
I was just glancing through my sent mail folder and realized that I average sending 34 emails a day. That doesn’t seem all that bad to me. What about you all? Who does the most email correspondence? UPDATE: It is now 11 pm and I have sent 48 emails today. […]
(Cross-posted from engage.shc.psu.edu) Tonight our daughter had a special treat. She was invited to be an “honorary captain” for the women’s soccer game against Michigan State. It was an intense game that ended only in overtime. The second goal was scored by Aubrey Aden-Buie, a Schreyer Scholar who was recently […]
Job 28 12 “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? 13 Man does not know the way to it, and it is not found in the land of the living. 14 The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It […]
Unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien to be released Unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien to be released An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, American and British publishers announced Monday. Christopher Tolkien has spent the past […]
There is a new session at this year’s SBL: “Teaching Biblical Literature in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Context” (S18-77, 11/18/200, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM, Room: 154A – CC). My paper has the above title and the following abstract. “God is Not in this Classroom” or Reading the Bible in […]
I have not yet read this and the review is old, but I read it in a doctor’s office (of course) and I am intrigued. Read the review and let me know if you are going to read the book. (I have ordered it.) Or if you have read it, […]
Penn State Live This is too strange, but as a father of a daughter it makes me want to hug my daughter more and that’s got to be good. 🙂 Monday, September 11, 2006 Altoona, Pa. — Chemical cues from fathers may be delaying the onset of sexual maturity in […]
I just heard of this story through PaleoJudaica. Tikva Frymer-Kensky, 1943-2006. I only met her on one or two occasions, but her work is (should be) well known to all in our fields. She will be sorely missed.