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Jonathan Drake / Reuters Creating Conservative Universities Is Not the Answer
Increasing the ideological diversity of higher education as a whole, while decreasing it within individual institutions, would bring us closer to a fundamental and permanent political separation.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters I Went Back to a Dumbphone
Here’s what I’ve learned so far.
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JSTOR's Hidden Power
Training students to be attentive and discriminating in their use of sources is difficult and time-consuming. It is enormously tempting to say “just use Project Muse and JSTOR articles” and be done with it.
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How Teachers Will Use E-Readers to Catch Cheaters
Tricks for catching plagiarizers online are old hat. But now teachers have ways to monitor the time it takes a student to read a text.
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Has Twitter Become Too Big for High-Quality Conversation?
Twitter may scale up better as a vehicle of information than as one of conversation.
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The Web's Elusive Promise of a DIY Career in the Arts
Will self-managed musicians and artists continue to be rarities, or is that path finally becoming a reality on a greater scale?
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Cell Phones as Meeting Points in a Featureless Landscape
Can we create public spaces that are navigable without cell phones? Would we even want to?
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A New Kind of Crisis for the Day Your Book Is Published
Once again, ebook consumers are overlooked.
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In Mental Exercise, Variety Matters
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Lessons From the Anternet: What Ants and Computers Have in Common
A new book reveals that these insects, even with their tiny brains, are almost as socially complex as humans.
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Take My Money, Please! The Strange Case of Free Web Services
Is it just that companies don't want to take on the obligations to the customer that come from selling a service?
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E-Reading: A Midterm Progress Report
What's been accomplished with ebooks ... and what remains to be done?
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Fall, Mortality, and the Machine: Tolkien and Technology
From the beginnings of modern fantasy, in the work of Tolkien, technology has always been the enemy of the good life. But does it have to be that way?
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A Defense of Stephen King, Master of the Decisive Moment
The "Dark Tower" series author knows how to write about turning points.
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The Artist's Lens: What It Means to See the World With an Eye Toward a Facebook Update
Writers and artists have always been self-conscious consumers and filterers of experience, saving it and using it for artistic purposes later on.
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How Books Learn
What's it like to be a book?
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The Hivemind Singularity
In a near-future science fiction novel, human intelligence evolves into a hivemind that makes people the violent cells of a collective being.
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Why Seventh Day Adventists Revere Isaac Newton
The quintessential man of science was also convinced that there was a code in the Bible that predicted the exact date of the Second Coming.
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What I Learned at Digital Summer Camp
Adventures at an academic conference, or, rather, unconference -- a freewheeling, do-it-yourselves, and inspirational model
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The Potential and Promise of Open-Source Judaism
One community's pioneering effort to make its materials of worship more widely available and remixable.
