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Farming in the Suburbs

I write bad poetry from time to time. I use this space to record it. I wrote this one in August, when the days were longer, social distancing easy, and online school a

Rethinking ROI

2 min read HigherEd
This semester I'll be co-chairing our President's "Life-Transformative Education" task force, a signature initiative to rethink undergraduate education at UConn. Part of a coalition of similar efforts

Briefly Noted for October 24, 2018

1 min read Briefly Noted
Caitlin Flanagan's eloquent description of how histories, true or false, operate in families (e.g. Elizabeth Warren's family): How many times during my childhood did my father tell me
Collaboration and Emergent Knowledge at Greenhouse Studios

Collaboration and Emergent Knowledge at Greenhouse Studios

3 min read Design
Crossposted from Greenhouse Studios Since the 1970s, scholars in fields as varied as sedimentology, ornithology, sociology, and philosophy have come to understand the importance of self-organizing systems, of how higher-order complexity can “emerge”