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Nineteen people were wounded yesterday in a shooting at a New Orleans parade. “The shooting — described by the F.B.I. as a flare-up of street violence — shattered the festive mood surrounding the...
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Friday Reads
San Jose State University, which has been a pilot example for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), has suspended five Udacity online classes after more than 50 percent of students failed the final...
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More of the pitfalls of (the cost of) modern higher education. College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers From The New York Times, a really interesting exploration of how Suni Tripathi was wrongly...
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An absolute must read on Bradley Manning that offers a totally different narrative than the government traitor/free speech martyr that we usually get. “…But the heated language on both sides tended to...
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Weekly Must Reads
Getting excited for Outside Lands this weekend? Me too. Check out this helpful food truck preview from SF Weekly (but it doesn’t even come close to the number of food spots worth checking out), some...
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Sunday Reads
This is a great piece on the gentrification of Boyle Heights in L.A. At first, it reminded me of the gentrification stories about the Mission in San Francisco, but it’s slightly different – the concept...
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Today is Janet Napolitano’s last day as secretary of Homeland Security. Food for thought: Is a politician really suited to running the University of California? (The opposing argument/idea: Someone...
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Feel bad you’re missing out on Oktoberfest in Munich? Don’t, because beer prices there have gone up faster than inflation. (Not that celebrations anywhere else aren’t a commercial rip-off/overpriced....
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Weekend Reads
Starting this fall, Bard College applicants can submit something other than SAT scores to get into the New York liberal arts school. What’s the catch? The alternative to taking the SAT is writing four...
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Sunday Reads
It’s been awhile since once of these posts – as someone who is reading the news and writing most of the day at work, it’s difficult to do more of it when I get home at the end of the day (or on...
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