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June 26, 2009

Name Dropping

Peter Wood

Michael Jackson blurs, Governor Sanford trips, Farrah Fawcett strolls, and fermions chill out. NAS rides the news cycle.

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June 26, 2009

2009 If I Ran the Zoo #5

Robert L. Jackson

Robert Jackson says the higher ed zoo needs a Great Conversation.

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June 25, 2009

Thursday Vert-Degree

Ashley Thorne

Green news: go asparaguses, intelligent life isn't sustainable in outer space either, and messages from AASHE.

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June 24, 2009

What's Critical about Critical Globalization Studies?

Peter Wood

This year a UC Santa Barbara professor sent an email to his class, comparing Israeli actions to those of the Nazis. But where did this professor's academic field, "critical globalization studies"......

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June 23, 2009

"Specious and Seducing": Alexander Hamilton on Group Preferences

Glenn Ricketts

Arizona puts a civil rights measure on the ballot for 2010. Alexander Hamilton comments.

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