Purposeful procrastination: Are slightly lower grades really all that bad?
A new study suggests that students who turn in homework at the last minute get worse grades. Of the 777 students involved, 86.1 percent waited until the last 24 hours…
The tyranny of the syllabus
I know a handful of college professors personally. I know a handful more via Facebook and Twitter. I have known many, many more throughout the years. Around this time of…
My children visited a bookstore on the last day of summer. Their behavior was shocking.
We spent the last day of summer on the Connecticut shoreline. Among our choices of activities was a visit to our favorite bookstore, R.J. Julia in Madison, Connecticut. Elysha and…
My best piece of parenting advice
It takes a special and exceedingly wise breed of parent to ignore a temper tantrum like this and instead retrieve the camera and document the moment for posterity. My wife…
Just like his mom. And his dad, actually.
Our son, Charlie, spent the evening cooking dinner with Elysha. He spends most of this time demanding his mother’s attention and hanging on her legs, so involving him in the…
If I was able to choose my children’s teachers, this is what I would want more than anything else.
If I were allowed to choose the teachers for my children, I would almost always choose those with the greatest variety of life experiences. Give me a teacher who has…
When you choose the name Moxie Marlinspike, you have to expect people to ask about the name. Just answer the question.
I was listening to Moxie Marlinspike, an Internet security researcher, on the most recent episode of Planet Money. Here is the exchange between Mr. Marlinspike and reporter Steve Henn: Henn:…
Men are far more likely to make stupid decisions in sports. But are the reasons for this stupidity all bad? I don’t think so.
This will come as no surprise to anyone who plays a coed sport: On the playing field, men are more likely than women to make dumb decisions. The major finding:…
The range of emotions at the bus stop on Friday was astounding.
It was my son who was going through some sort of emotional turmoil as he waited for his sister to catch the bus. I guess it’s not easy being left…
At last I have a plan for old age
When I was young, I played a lot of video games. I started on an Atari 2600 and eventually moved on to an Atari 5200, a Nintendo, PC gaming, online…
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