Monthly Archives: December 2009

  1. Child Labor

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    December 23, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    Just caught this from a round-up of conservatives saying the country will end with each passing reform in the US. …
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  2. Google Auto-Complete

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    December 22, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    Certainly one of the …what’s the right word? scarier? enlightening? …features of modern technology is Google autocomplete. From today’s NY …
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  3. The “Work-Ethic” Gap

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    December 22, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    Apparently, this Op-Ed in the Boston Globe by Kara Miller has been batted around quite a bit the last few …
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  4. Indeterminate Determinism: Or Why It’s Not Just Humans Who Have Freedom

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    December 22, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    Graham has a post up on McCluhan and I’m not going to wade into a debate on his work. But …
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  5. Live Blogging the Final

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    December 21, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    I just had a student hand in a final exam. Not only did I not know him but no one …
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  6. Whew…that’s a time saver…

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    December 21, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    From the Onion: Activist Judge Cancels Christmas

  7. Merry Christmas, Tom Coburn

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    December 21, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    Ezra Klein has a quick post up on the cruelties of the Senate, noting how the intransigence of the right …
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  8. Grading on Me

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    December 21, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    Another weekend of grading. Up late. Quote of the night: wow, this is a really excellent point. Wait, hey… I’ve …
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    December 20, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    If the 3-D wasn’t going to make me avoid it and just knowing James Cameron was the director wasn’t going …
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  10. CFP: Afromodernisms 1: Re-encounters with the French and Anglo-Atlantic Worlds, 1907 to ’61

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    December 20, 2009 by Peter Gratton

    This looks really good. How many darn good conferences are in England this coming year? Keynote Speakers: Professor David Scott, …
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