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(The rather lengthy post below is a paper UD gave a couple of nights ago to the undergraduate Philosophy Club at her university, George Washington.) Brain fade. It's what the novelist Don DeLillo ...

...laptops tend to mean you're not getting any. 37 percent of Americans bring laptops (and other disconnect-anxiety stuff) to bed with them; more and more people "choose the internet or TV ...

"Proles," explains Paul Fussell in his book Class, "like to use words that normally appear only in newspapers. They don't realize that no one calls the Pope the pontiff except in ...

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by access, craving hysterical naked dragging themselves through wired rooms at dawn looking at an angry prof, webheaded hipsters surfing ...

More and more professors -- hell, entire departments -- are banning laptops from their classrooms. Now the business world's doing it too, since people in meetings are using their laptops for the ...

Enterprising student journalists at SUNY New Paltz have discovered that some full-time professors pretty regularly miss their office hours. UD can recall missing her office hours once or twice ...

A war's raging between two in-house bloggers at the Chronicle of Higher Education. One's an overpaid university president (he recently left his position); the other's a professor who's an activist ...

"Elsewhere, when you violate the law or the rules, you go to jail or pay a fine," says an amazed Andrew Zimbalist, a man who's been following university sports closely for decades and ...

Let's consider two recent, related pieces in the University of Miami newspaper. The first announces the appearance, in selected classrooms, of a new technology called SYNCHRONEYES. ...

Evidence of UD's still-throbbing 'sixties sensibility. A list that will be added to as UD thinks of more stuff. 1.] Usually UD finds students who come to class without the book -- without ...