Procrastadabbler

Ruminations about life, teaching, literacy, research, and anything else I can think of when I am procrastinating

2 must read opinion articles from NY Times

July 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

One article is about the health impact of worms/parasites in African nations and how inexpensively this devastating health problem could be addressed if only some attention were turned that way. I’m sure the issues of delivering aid to the afflicted are much more complex that I could ever imagine (graft, bureaucracy, etc), but nonetheless, the [...]

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Do you think the editors did it on purpose?

January 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Yesterday’s Rochester Democrat and Chronicle home section had two headlines on the front page that caught my attention. The article at the top of the page was about kitchen renovations and how people are putting lots and lots of money into those renovations. The price of an average kitchen renovations was supposedly $35,000. Toward the [...]

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Ordinary Responses to Extraordinary Circumstances

August 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Everyone is writing about the heat, I suppose. I’ll be no different. I’m skipping my morning bike ride today. When I got up at 7:30 it was already in the 80s. There is a decent breeze blowing, but as I sit here in front of the fan with my laptop, I’m already beginning to feel [...]

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