Not of General Interest

In "Your Body's Best Time to Do Everything," The Wall Street Journal provides a little pop psych that I can believe in, more...

If the papers were posted, you would see them posted.  If they are not posted, they are not posted. If I said I would let you know by em...

For those who've been frustrated (as I have) by iAnnotate's quirky refusal to sync files that you download into it directly. To ge...

This struck me as good writing inspiration material: Ta-Nehisi Coates on why he doesn't spend as much time gaming any more:  Writing ...

Bardiac and Jennifer Finney Boylan, in a guest post at Tenured Radical , recently wrote about the cultural references they share (or don...

J ennifer Howard's article "Can MOOC's Help Sell Textbooks?"  raises some interesting issues, to wit: if  MOOC's are...

Drive home, change clothes to go for walk/run. Lie down just for a second and fall asleep instantly. Yeah, getting up at 5 to write but th...

Amazon.com is experimenting with off-line retailing, including brick-and-mortar stores and a locker pickup service for people who can't...

I'm late in posting about the CSU "expiry date" ad (now changed), but Dr. Crazy and Historiann and Sisyphus and now Timo...

From nicoleandmaggie comes this link and nicoleandmaggie's comments on it: This  post from Wil Wheaton  reminded me why NPR annoyed m...

It's a time of new energy, and not just from taking a few minutes out to watch the Big Dog's inspiring nomination speech this eveni...

or a writing chalet , to be exact. It was across the road from his house at Gad's Hill, and he got there via a specially dug tunnel un...

Over at Dame Eleanor's writing group , here's what I said I would do: --Main goal: finish two partially drafted chapters of the bo...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that in teaching you have to  spend time now to make time later for what you want to do. Today I sp...

Profgrrrl's post   about wanting to buy (but not really needing) school supplies like paper and pens hit home for me. I want to buy som...

We've all read those studies that show that students make up their minds about professors in the first 90 seconds and don't really c...

On a scale of 1-5, with 1 being "I have to say something" and 5 being "eh, maybe I should just be amused," how would you...

Bardiac has been to a workshop that changed her mind about the way she teaches.  Here's some of what she heard: According to the rese...

Here's what's been helping with writing lately: Standing up. When caffeine just can't get you over that early afternoon sl...

When it takes you several days to read a reasonably short book written in what ought to be pretty straightforward prose. When a character...