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“LA, LA, LA, LA, LA…I Can’t Hear You!”
Share Some days, if I close my eyes and listen real close, I can actually hear them. Hundreds and thousands of tiny voices buzzing in unison – a sound not unlike... Read more
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Time is a function of size, or why whales sing low and bees move fast
Share Many summers ago when I was a child hiking through the fields of Vermont because my parents were poor, there were no scheduled soccer matches or movie play dates or... Read more
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Back to School
This fall we will see the greatest college enrollment in 40 years, and of course this comes with good reason. Now, more than ever, the high school diploma has become... Read more
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On Nowdern Love and Liquid Life
Share Fluid Life Zigmunt Bauman’s book, Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds, is about “the uncanny frailty of human bonds, the feeling of insecurity that frailty inspires, and the conflicting... Read more
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Higher Ed Goes Pop! The Economic Bubble of Higher Education
Share Higher Ed Goes Pop The Economic Bubble of Higher Education Higher Education (secondary-education, anything post-high-school) is another economic bubble on the verge of popping. The numbers of people choosing to invest in... Read more
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The Minister of Culture
Share Upon hearing that The Faces—the legendary, roots-rock band that lost musicians to the Who, the Rolling Stones and to the unfortunate worldwide phenomenon known as Rod Stewart—would be re-uniting this... Read more
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Book Review: The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains
Share The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr 276 pages. W. W. Norton & Company. $26.95 Review by Max Zeledon We’re a culture of pundits and grandiose proclamations. The... Read more
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Untitled [A Colorful Man]
Share Once upon a time in a windy city, I had a best friend named Doug who made the most amazing lentil curry, sometimes snorted when he laughed and liked to... Read more
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Why College Football Will Save the US Economy
Share On a cold January evening in 1984 in Omaha, I slammed my bedroom door shut and began bawling my eyes out. All because a guy dropped an oblong ball on... Read more
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Beating Back the Birthday Melancholies. Everything Old Is New.
I have a birthday coming up and so I'm sort of melancholy. A few years back I could say, "Well, I am only halfway there, God willing..." Nowadays,... Read more
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