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The Teacher Becomes the Student
“Focus,” he said. “Stop talking. Breathe. Now, push that bar up.” Eyes closed, face scrunched, forehead veins popping, I sucked in a breath and pushed the bar up summoning all of my might. When I let it back down I opened my eyes with relief. “You’re stronger than you think,” he said. “Next time we’ll…
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Moral Behavior and Ethics Class: Thoughts on Schwitzgebel’s paper
Schwitzgebel’s paper raises an interesting question, namely, Do Ethics Classes Influence Students’ Moral Behavior? He writes: “I tentatively conclude that the typical university ethics class has at most a tiny effect on students’ moral behavior. Even tiny positive effects on moral behavior can be highly important, but unfortunately such tiny positive effects, if they exist,…
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Operation Relax
Not too long ago I tweeted the following: I am addicted to working. When I am not teaching I am grading, and when I am not grading I am reading, and when I am not reading I am writing/journaling, and when I am not writing I am thinking about writing, and when I am not…
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Summer Reading
Dear friends and fellow bookworms from the interwebs, here are some suggestions for summer reading: Light Reading Inferno by Dan Brown.* Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet) by George Takei. Literary Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig. Philosophy (of Science) Nonsense on Stilts. How to tell Science from Bunk by Massimo Piggliucci. Enjoy! * Just for fun,…
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Darwin Awards.
Originally posted on whiny baby: Hello everyone! Do you love my new header image? It’s me! At my whiniest and evilest! I am so proud of it. My husband said it would make this blog look like I have a daughter who is a dick (I’m paraphrasing here. I think he said, “It makes your…
