Shrinking Footprints: A Classic Win-Win
Last Monday I sat down with Michael Decker to talk about the Dell purchase he says “was better than anything I could have thought of”.
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Carleton News: Carleton's Perlman Teaching Museum Featured in 'MN Original'
Carleton College's Perlman Teaching Museum, located in the Weitz Center for Creativity, is featured in a MN Original episode entitled "Museums Creating Community." Produced with the Minnesota...
View ArticleKaren Mardahl '79: Getting Ready for TCUK12
I love the conference held by ISTC every October: the Technical Communication UK conference, also known as TCUK. A little hop over the North Sea takes me to a gathering of really nice people whose...
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Cheryl Klein: A Quick Post on a Friday: Fall 2012 Preview
My four fine fall novels, all with jackets I love: October 2012 Cover art by Shane RebenscheidCover design by Whitney Lyle September 2012 (out now in Canada!) Cover photograph by Michael Frost(who,...
View ArticleErik Hanberg: Nature Is Magical, Exhibit A
Fast forward this video to the 1:40 minute mark for the good stuff.This just made me happy. An HD camera, a torpedo with a GPS guidance system ... and a pod of dolphins. Voila! A long shot from inside...
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Dan Schofer '00
8-11-2012Pospisil Loop + Town. 75 minutes. >10 miles.Mild, sunny, and nice. Easy run. First 7.5 miles with Marie. Felt OK.
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Cheryl Klein: Worlds of Wonders: On Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy,...
Last week, I finished World of Wonders, the third book in Robertson Davies's marvelous Deptford Trilogy. I wrote the following about it on Goodreads:I picked up a battered mass-market paperback copy of...
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Kevin Draper '10: We Can't All Be Supermen.
"Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength -- life itself...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Paradigm-Shifting Printable House Being Buit in Just 4 Weeks
[ By Delana in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ] Building a home with traditional methods is a long and drawn-out process often full of delays, disappointments and stress. More...
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John Tischer '71: Waiting In Paradise
Waiting in paradisewhile the end game goes on all around…. …it’s the ones that think they’ve got their asses covered amidst the overhaul confusion that will suffer…make no mistake.Ah, Mexico, where...
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Dan Schofer '00
8-12-2012Adams Loop. 70 minutes. 10 miles.Felt pretty good. Easy run with Marie alongside on the bike. [Week: 80 miles]
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Faster, Higher, Stranger: 10 Tacky Olympic Souvenirs
[ By Steve in Art & Sculpture & Craft. ] “I went to the Olympics and all I got was this lousy… what IS that thing, anyway?” Most anyone would agree the best souvenir of a Summer or Winter...
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Cheryl Klein: Creating a Cover: Three Alternate Takes on SECOND SIGHT + Some...
At the National SCBWI Conference in January, I was approached by an artist named Heidi Woodward Sheffield, whom I'd met once before at a conference in Michigan. She told me she loved Second Sight -- so...
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Ken Wedding's Reading Blog: Pretty damn stupid
If you asked me about Lunatics by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, I'd tell you it is pretty damn stupid.If you asked my why I read most of it, I'd tell you I am pretty damn stupid.The trouble is that I...
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Erin McKittrick '01: Camp Denali
As seen from a Denali bus window. She was quite excited when we explained she could eat river beauty. My excuses take the shape of blueberries, dripping round and fat from the branches, staining my...
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Arjendu Pattanayak: meblen
MOOCs (massive open on-line courses) are all over the higher education news these days. Having never either taken or taught any sort of on-line course, much the less a MOOC, I’ve only guessed at what...
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Kevin Draper '10: Millions of Average Joes.
Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Joe Bernardo, our resident Lakers fan. Joe is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Washington and a Los Angeles native. *****When I was in...
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