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" ...I am going to warn you one last chance I am going to ask I want a better than a B-," the e-mail read. "If I see this [grade] I swear to god I am going to fucking put you in a wheelchair when I see you..." wrote an undergraduate student to one of my colleagues this week the student was…
Lin leads Harvard to 82-70 upset over No. 17 BC - College Basketball - Rivals.com Score one for the smart kids. Don't talk to me about Maryland. (tags: sports basketball) Michael Nielsen » Three myths about scientific peer review "The myth that scientists adopted peer review broadly and early…
Stephen Huneck Gallery at Dog Mountain Vermont " I wanted to build a chapel, one that celebrated the spiritual bond we have with our dogs, and that would be open to dogs and people. People of any faith or belief system." (tags: dog religion art animals) Such Madness - New York Times Let the…
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media » Far from the Peer-Reviewed Journal,Scientists Confront How-Tos of Op-Eds "So how can scientists strategically convey their messages to a broad audience without losing the nuances of their field? " (tags: science politics writing journalism)…