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Science, Cognition and Public Policy
We are not a science-based society The western world, at least, thinks of itself as a post-Enlightenment world, a world freed from […]
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Scientists, especially those in academia, have played an enormous role in the modern environmental movement. From Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich and Margaret […]
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Learning is a basic need. We are born with curiosity which gives us the easy ability to learn to speak and walk, […]
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Recently, I spent about an hour parsing the distinction between sleeping and snoring. Well, at the time, technically speaking, I was delivering […]
READ MOREReading Matters: The honeymoon and after
My own love affair with libraries began, as it surely does for most booklovers, as a child. I was lucky enough to […]
READ MORECreating the engaged student
As university professors, many of us have very busy schedules of teaching and research. For some, the first passion is research. But […]
READ MOREBlogging in Academe
New developments, discoveries and a diversity of ideas are encountered daily by those of us engaged in academic work. The explosion in […]
READ MOREJeu de la séduction universitaire
La séduction en pédagogie universitaire ? La question étonne et scandalise même. Comment peut-on croire que dans nos classes à l’université se […]
READ MORELured by Fiction: Transitioning from Academic to Novelist
In 1997, in the months between finishing my PhD [at Oxford] and taking up a post doc in 1998, I wrote my […]
READ MORELa séduction pédagogique
S’il est un domaine où la séduction a mauvaise réputation, c’est bien celui de l’éducation. Les craintes proviennent du lourd sémantisme moral […]
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