Monthly Archives: March 2011

Interdisciplinarity and politics

I just heard Mayor Annise Parker speak in Chapel, and of the many interesting things she said, the one that’s most relevant to this thread is the following comment. “Every day, I face problems I’ve never seen before, and I … Continue reading

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Moving upward

In the last post we “got down to basics,” moving from the beautiful flowering tree of my teaching (lol) to the sturdy trunk and then root system.  Now, however, we’re going to do a little genetic recombination (or grafting, perhaps) … Continue reading

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Getting down to basics

During a long conversation with Jeff Ritter and Lori MacConnell at lunch yesterday, I discovered a number of interesting things. One of them was a clearer articulation of what I’m trying to do in my teaching, no matter what the … Continue reading

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