There is no ‘fair’

My grandfather used to say to my mother, “There is no ‘fair’.” It wasn’t an old adage or a philosophy to live by, but rather a sign of exasperation at the state of the world. I laughed when my mother…

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Turnitin.com losing ground

Plagiarism, like most dirty laundry, isn’t often aired in the proverbial public square of academia. For the most part, it’s a problem that flies under the radar, reintroduced to students only when papers are due and insinuated at by an…

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Butterfly wings

“It has been said something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.” – Chaos Theory If you Google for long enough, you may have the good fortune of coming…

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