Archive for the ‘ Blogging ’ Category

Math Is Hard!

Not really. I adore math and all its perfect logic. I’ve ranted before about math and smart girls and the general idea that being capable of doing something well has nothing to do with gender, race, sex, or your ass’ ability to sprout wings[ READ MORE ]

Literally

It’s not just me who’s driven insane (figuratively, of course) by people who swear to me that they waited in line at the ATM “literally forever!” (I’m always too polite to mention that if that were true, they’d still be in that stupid line and wouldn’t be standing in front of me, abusing the hell out of “literally.”[ READ MORE ]

Twitter Learns Surgeons Up Right

According to my favorite tech nerd, Jane Hart, Twitter is a viable learning tool for surgeons[ READ MORE ]

There’s Always Money In the Banana Stand*

These bothersome fixations are not at all interesting except to some annoying-ass bit of my grey matter, which has no effing business using its precious energy on anything but my quest for badass knowledge-acquisition and the pulling of me through reality in one piece[ READ MORE ]

Fashion Nerdery In Academia

Due to my math and science snobbery, I have to work to acknowledge to myself that there are several other arenas for nerdery in academia[ READ MORE ]

Year One: A College Blog

The transition from being a kick-ass high school senior to a floundering, inept college freshman is no fun for anyone[ READ MORE ]

Maybe It’s Better Not to Know What Kids Think

It’s cringe-y and funny and it just upset me and made me laugh until I snurfed green tea out my nose. I think you should read it too. Chag Holland is Cynical Dad and he is capable of making your day better. I help out in my daughter’s class. I used to just do simple [ READ MORE ]

100 Awesome Business Blogs

It’s like a goldmine of information for MBA do-it-yourselfers. [ READ MORE ]

Top 50 Continuing Education Blogs

I’m in the section that includes Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education, which means I may have fooled the blogosphere into thinking I’m all about the smartness. [ READ MORE ]

Michael Wesch: TED Talk On Media and Teaching Students to Become Knowledge-Able

Watch it. It takes about 15 minutes; that’s less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee. And no way one cup of caffeine will blow your mind like Michael Wesch can[ READ MORE ]