This article, that I've read this early morning, about Voyager 2's journey beyond the solar system, has me thinking of long distances, in space and time, and the ways in which the frenzy of the present can almost entirely obliterate our capacity to have a longer view than three seconds into the future and four feet in front of my face.

My apologies for my silence (to whom? Is anyone listening?) but I've been running about a bit.  I had hoped to have something to share with you all, but life got in the way and I have 63-74% of about four things to share. So instead of any of them, here is a basket of links to keep your mind off the abyss of meaninglessness that is life without my blog posts.

So, here you go:

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For teachers, and anyone else who cares about students (yes, teachers care about students, you betcha), a nice piece on note-taking and "cognitive load theory."  Much of it seems a bit like someone's putting obvious points in a technical jargon, but I do think there are some good reminders here.

I've talked on this blog before about why I think there's an opportunity for a really interesting and genuniely consequential restructuring of higher education, driven most fundamentally by basic demographic changes in the history of the species happening now.  

This morning I opened up a weekly newsletter I get, written by Goldie Blumenstyk, a reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education...

A busy day for me so here are some links to other pieces to keep you, you know, off the streets.

A piece explaining, a little bit (but more would probably stun me), how quantum computers work, what they are, and why they may be important.

This is an interesting article about political tumult between Oberlin (administrators and students) and their surrounding community.  It's behind a paywall right now, but hopefully that will change...

As everyone recognizes, the world as a whole is having a giant spasm of resentment, the likes of which we haven't seen since at least the 1930s, and maybe, at least in its global scope, never before...

Just came across this piece this morning, which is behind a paywall if you're not at a University that subscribes to the journal Renaissance Studies, but the gist of it is that "Erasmian humanism"...

This isn't Texas, and I've not been into high school football for thirty-some years.  

"Chateaubriand, like his contemporaries, may have imagined he was destined to be remembered for...

Here's a really interesting piece on how the elderly effectively blackmailed younger people to ensure their own care.

Found in the ruins of ancient Susa, dating from the first centuries of the...