Michael Geisler has a fantastic article on Inside Higher Ed about why Larry Summers, former Treasury secretary and Harvard University president, is wrong in his op-ed about foreign language education in the United States....
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Ron Deibert, Director of The Citizen Lab, gave a seminar on cyber security at King’s College London last night. Below are my notes from the seminar and comments: States all over the world want...
This post is a bit late, but I wanted to write something about my experience TAing for Professor Philip Sabin’s BA class about World War 2. Professor Sabin runs a module on Conflict Simulation...
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