Not of General Interest

I'm sure you all saw this a few years ago on YouTube. Apparently one of my cats watched it, too. Today as I was duplex printing (Save t...

From the Chronicle, " Humanities Journals Confront Identity Crisis": Senior scholars, the A-list of academic publishing, seem to s...

From the New York Times , via University Diaries: In a contentious Feb. 26 deposition between Dr. Biederman and lawyers for the states, he ...

From BoingBoing, via Academhack , comes Steven Johnson's account of "How to write a book" ( it's all worth reading, but I...

"It is a great relief when for a few moments in the day we can retire to our chamber and be completely true to ourselves. It leavens th...

I was looking over the list of contributors to an essay collection in which I have a piece coming out and started musing "X . . X . . ....

At the risk of semi-disagreeing with Professor Zero's "A Heretical Post," I have to qualify what she says when she says ...

I have a confession to make: despite all the rational reasons for not getting a Kindle, I have been reading far too many reviews of the new...

The estimable Professor Zero has tagged me for the influential writers meme, and, although I fear that my list can be neither as rich as her...

Bardiac has a great post about teaching composition, and I was with her right up to the point where she suggested driving somewhere and as...

The New York Times is wringing its hands over the decline in the humanities, and, as usual, D ean Dad nails the flaw in the argument, noting...

According to my rusty recollection of Roman history courses and the ever-trusty Wikipedia , February 23 is the day (Terminalia) that splits ...

Another long, long week, and . . . oh, wait, you mean it's not over yet? I will get back to posting soon. In the meantime, here's ...

In the New York Times, Stanley Fish has a column about Professor Denis Rancourt of the University of Ottawa, who was apparently fired for (...

By "nobody," I don't mean the estimable Dr. Crazy , New Kid , and Sisyphus , all of whom have excellent posts (responding to T...

From the Chronicle about a new library opening at Fresno State: “The collection level below the first floor is arguably the largest single-...

It's annual review season, and as usual, we are asked for the same information sliced-and-diced in different ways for different purposes...

I'm getting the Inspiration Award post ready (thank you, profacero!), but in the meantime, here is a pop quiz about putting together con...

I guess you'd call it a trifecta of blog obsessions, anyway: Malcolm Gladwell 's Outliers not only has a lot to say about what crea...

President Obama, Inaugural Address: "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remakin...