Almost there…

YAY! I have finalized all the grades I can tonight — which means all but three grades. Everything else has been submitted, has been marked, and has been shown to the student or will be shown tomorrow. Small adjustments might be required, but nothing earthshaking, well, as long as my luck holds out. (My luck [...]

Hugo Nominees, 2006

Adrian posted a link to a site with tons of criticism of all of the Hugo nominees for 2006. Worth a look.

Kofi Annan on the World Cup

This piece, titled At the UN, how we envy the World Cup, came to me via the mailing list I’m about to go into withdrawal from, as I’ve unsubbed until after Clarion West is over.
You may wonder what a secretary general of the United Nations is doing writing about football. But in fact, the World [...]

FDA Approves Cervical Cancer Vaccine — Couzin 2006 (608): 1 — ScienceNOW

FDA says okay, but depending on the ruling of the ruling made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, this may not become a part of the Public Health Strategy in some states. And I think we know which ones would rather not, since they’ll consider this another encouragement of promiscuity.

Teaching How to Write a Resume

Today I made a crack with my class about my teaching over the last semester. We’d just finished a very detailed examination of two different resume types, and I was asking if they had any questions, and they said, “No.”
“Was it all clear?”
“Very clear!” a few of them said.
When I quipped, “First time [...]

Woman Marries Snake

No, really. No comment necessary.
Via Ritu.

Tight Shirts and the Complainer

Two things from the last week:

Very tight T-shirts seem to have become de rigeur on campus. I don’t know if it’s the weather, or whether these young ladies are thinking that wearing T-shirts that show off their chests will help “push-up” their grades slightly (uh, terrible pun), but I have noticed that all of a [...]

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