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PostSecret Video Killed the Faculty Star In what seems the TMZ-ification of higher education, three separate professors have found themselves the subjects of “gotcha” YouTube segments in recent days. While the cases differ widely, faculty members at Cornell University, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and the University of Central Florida have all seen pieces of their lectures go viral in the last several weeks. Taken collectively, the carefully edited clips play up familiar stereotypes about faculty: there’s the quick-tempered bore (Cornell), the liberal indoctrinator (Louisiana State) and the lazy test-recycler (Central Florida). As one would suspect, there's more to these stories than any of the videos can provide. Moreover, there’s evidence at Louisiana State that clips were intentionally cut for effect. Photo: Campus Reform “You want to get rid of the internal combustion engine,” he said mockingly to self-identified liberals. “I was challenging all sides,” he said. “There was no editing job done. Mark P.

Make-or-Break Verbs Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. This is the third in a series of writing lessons by the author. A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb. Verbs kick-start sentences: Without them, words would simply cluster together in suspended animation. Jeff Rogers Fundamentally, verbs fall into two classes: static (to be, to seem, to become) and dynamic (to whistle, to waffle, to wonder). Static Verbs Static verbs themselves fall into several subgroups, starting with what I call existential verbs: all the forms of to be, whether the present (am, are, is), the past (was, were) or the other more vexing tenses (is being, had been, might have been). “Who is it that can tell me who I am?” Jumping ahead a few hundred years, Henry Miller echoes Lear when, in his autobiographical novel “Tropic of Cancer,” he wanders in Dijon, France, reflecting upon his fate: “Here is a scene.

Coursera UPDATE: we're doing a live, updated MOOC of this course at stanford-online July-2014 (not this Coursera version). See here: CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. In CS101, students play and experiment with short bits of "computer code" to bring to life to the power and limitations of computers. Here is another video Nick created for this class.

Antigone Sophocles is considered one of the great ancient Greek tragedians. Among Sophocles' most famous plays are Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. These plays follow the fall of the great king, Oedipus, and later the tragedies that his children suffer. The three plays are often called a trilogy, but this is technically incorrect. These facts probably explain some of discrepancies found in the plays. Of course, while the plays aren't technically a trilogy and do have discrepancies, they do share many similarities. Antigone matters because it wrestles with civil disobedience. Reach into the depths of the history room in your mind. Antigone chooses to express her dissatisfaction with what she believes to be the unethical new regime of King Creon by burying her brother's body.

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