I remember the moment I learned that teachers get no respect anymore. “So what are you going to do to help him, Mr. Parent?” asked the mother of a student failing my eighth grade physical science class. My principal then repeated the question, leading to my stunned silence. The child failed my class because he didn’t […]
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Fueled by sun buffeted by air higher Water climbs higher and til seizing a speck of dust and then each other They freeze into hexagons of ice unique in shape size altitude. Finally they succumb to Earth’s siren call. Snow F A L L S . A tumbling billowing mass of white clutching sleeves eyelashes
(for Emily Forand and the W119 Faculty and Staff) I envy you. Stamped with the names of all those exciting places. Turned on your side, you look like a squishy old-time Pullman porter’s trunk. Amsterdam London Paris Munich How did you end up here scrubbing dishes in the faculty lounge? No enticing aroma of French
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In the article “You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner than You Think,” Kevin Drum warns that extreme unemployment is probable within the next forty years. He begins his argument by placing all jobs into four categories: routine physical, routine cognitive, nonroutine physical, and nonroutine cognitive. Many leaders in the field are
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The definition of the term “singularity” varies depending on discipline. For instance, a singularity can be a location where the curvature of space-time becomes infinite and therefore ceases to have any meaning, at least in a measurable sense based on the laws of physics. In this context, there might not be such a thing as
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I’m so thankful for dryer sheets, For midnight sleets that keep me Inside when I’d rather be under the stars Puffing a Marlboro. I make late night calls to Mom, When she or I finally become so tired We begin slurring our slurs, And, listening, my father says, “It sure ain’t no game for Simple