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Impedance matching as instructional metaphor 27 Aug 2013 | 05:38 pm
Joe Redish, in his blog The Unabashed Academic, wrote a post (What should we tell a colleague about DBER?) about getting colleagues to listen to advice from education researchers. He recounts incide...
Shakespeare Santa Cruz to end 32-year run 27 Aug 2013 | 06:54 am
A UCSC press release by Scott Rappaport announced today Shakespeare Santa Cruz to end 32-year run due to budget problems Arts dean to convene committee to explore ways to create a financially feasib...
I won’t teach chemistry 26 Aug 2013 | 09:32 pm
As I mentioned in Homeschooling chemistry this year? “My son needs to take chemistry this year. He doesn’t have much interest in the subject, …” Since we couldn’t get him into the community college ...
Which college? 24 Aug 2013 | 08:08 pm
I’ve been thinking a lot about where my son should apply to college (all applications must be completed by January 1, and some of them will take him a long time to fill out—especially the dozens of ap...
Difficulties with the new Common Application 22 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
The people who run the “Common Application” process for students applying to colleges rolled out an entirely new system for students, schools, and colleges this month, and it has the usual problems of...
Exploratorium having financial problems 19 Aug 2013 | 01:08 am
A newspaper article from Friday talks about hard times at one of my favorite museums: Exploratorium cuts 18% of staff as attendance lags. It seems that they are losing their big financial bet on pull...
Moving bookcases 16 Aug 2013 | 10:34 am
My wife has been trying to reassemble her school library at her school, after a year of having the library in a trailer. (You may remember that there was a fire at the school, 2012 July 4). We had a...
Laptop for senior year 16 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
My son bought himself a computer this week, for his senior year in high school. He’s been trying to decide whether he wants to go with a MacBook or a cheaper Linux-based laptop in college, and decide...
Adding RAM to my MacBook Pro 16 Aug 2013 | 05:21 am
I’ve been having trouble with running out of RAM on my MacBook Pro laptop lately, resulting in huge delays as everything is swapped out to disk. There are two reasons for this: Firefox is a memory ho...
Service courses 15 Aug 2013 | 10:36 am
Joe Redish, in his blog The Unabashed Academic: wrote a post On service courses, in which he talked about a physics course he teaches, recognizing that the primary audience is not physics majors: In ...
