Category: Academics

In my last post I included a clip from “one of the two best Hamlets on film.” The second one, in case you were wondering, is this short masterpiece, which comes up at least once every term:

I’ve been teaching summer school for a few weeks, which is a much bigger drain on my time and energy than I would have imagined, and we’ve now reached the point in the term where we delve into Shakespeare.  Due to a failure on someone’s part — not sure where …

Just got my student evaluations for the spring term, which are always a delight to read (even if I go into them with some trepidation). This batch, I must say, was especially fun.  Several of them were even illustrated.  (I’m not kidding.) Anyhow, I thought it was worth sharing some …

Thanks to SF writer and cool dude Jeffrey A. Carver, who sent along a link to this astounding video of the core of the Milky Way — that’s our galaxy, kids — rising up into the Texas sky.  Galaxyrise. This is astronomy at its most pure for me: an image …