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students as part of the accountability puzzle

Yesterday, I suggested alternatives to holding teachers accountable on the basis of test scores. Just a few hours later (by ...

Peter Levine's Blog | Friday, 3 September 2010 | Comments

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Kashmir: Taking the Revolution Online - TIME

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WATANDOST | Friday, 3 September 2010 | Comments

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Socialism!

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By Michael J.W. StickingsThe Obama-is-a-socialist tag has always been a stupid one, but it's one conservatives, and particularly those either ...

The Reaction | Thursday, 2 September 2010 | Comments

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Triple Terror Blasts in Lahore Despite Timely Intel & Police Warning

Triple terror blasts in Lahore leave 27 dead By Muhammad Faisal Ali, Dawn, 02 Sep, 2010 LAHORE: At least 27 people were ...

WATANDOST | Thursday, 2 September 2010 | Comments

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Pakistan Floods - HELP NEEDED

To Visit Huma's Beg's blog on Pakistan Floods, click http://blog.serendip.tv/ Related: IMF Agrees to $450 Million in Emergency Financing for Pakistan - Bloomberg Stalled ...

WATANDOST | Thursday, 2 September 2010 | Comments

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Pakistan Floods - HELP NEEDED

To Visit Huma's Beg's blog on Pakistan Floods, click http://blog.serendip.tv/ Related: IMF Agrees to $450 Million in Emergency Financing for Pakistan - Bloomberg Stalled ...

WATANDOST | Thursday, 2 September 2010 | Comments

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Greg Peltz, Victorian Fashion,

de High Snob no words; just giggles.  (Artwork by Greg Peltz) One more Victorian painting and a 1-f... Read more

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True Blood, Doggy Style

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, season three of True Blood premiered last Sunda... Read more

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Buenos Aires Calling!

Follow Seth Rau's experiences as he blogs from Argentina

Crowdsourcing and Hurricanes

Can crowdsourcing produce effective maps and evacuation routes for impoverished nations?

A Miracle?

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Who's Who In Next Year's TCU Senate

Ed. note: Please welcome Ard Ardalan '13 to The Quad as our new student government correspondent.  In his first post, he lists the people with power in next year's TCU Senate, and provides some commentary. The TCU Senate conducted in-house elections ...

The Quad | Christopher Snyder | Sunday, 9 May 2010

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Boil Water Notice In Effect

Update 9:39pm: Boston's ABC station has aerial footage from earlier today of the leak in Weston. Update 9:29pm: Tufts announces that campus center will be open until 12 a.m. and Carmichael Dining Hall will be open until 1 a.m. for the ...

The Quad | Christopher Snyder | Saturday, 1 May 2010

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A Few Notes About Public Safety at Tufts

Here are some bullet points to know: > Tufts has its own police department, which is accredited by the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission.  It is located on the bottom floor of the Dowling Hall parking garage, uphill.  Yes, they're real police ...

The Quad | Christopher Snyder | Wednesday, 26 August 2009

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Tufts in the Summertime <3

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Exams ended last week, and now Tufts is eerily empty.  Most Jumbos are far away from the hill – starting internships on Capitol Hill, doing research around the world, going home to visit friends and family.  It’s kind of a ...

The Global Jumbo | Eileen Guo | Monday, 17 May 2010

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On Slander, Libel and The "Real World"

I wanted to elaborate on my previous post based on some of the feedback that the issue has been getting in the comments section . There seems to be this illusion that somehow Tufts University is a sort of protective bubble ...

The Public Editor | Shabazz Stuart | Sunday, 2 May 2010

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Tufts Goes Trayless

The following is a May 9, 2010 news release from Dining Services.  - Tufts Dining is Going Trayless in the Fall MEDFORD, MA – As a result of a successful pilot program in March, Tufts Dining will go trayless at Carmichael and Dewick-MacPhie ...

The Quad | Ard Ardalan | Monday, 17 May 2010

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News and Politics

China doesn't have to take it anymore

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China's rise to great power status is moving along steadily, and US policymakers are acknowledging it publicly. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made the following comment at a June 16th Hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommitee on Defense (in response ...

Demagogues and Dictators | Jeff Schneider | Tuesday, 22 June 2010

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AmericaSpeaks national discussion of the budget and the economy

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AmericaSpeaks, a group that promotes public deliberations, will organize a national discussion about the budget on June 26, 2010. Americans will meet in large groups in up to 20 different cities, and also in online discussions and smaller community conversations. ...

Peter Levine's Blog | Peter Levine | Wednesday, 14 April 2010

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More spending please

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By CreatureSixty percent of the public is game for more spending to help the economy, and the Dems can't muster the votes to do something. Of course, they're afraid that Rush Limbaugh will yell at them, so it makes ...

The Reaction | Michael J.W. Stickings | Saturday, 19 June 2010

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Two posts on an overloaded national security strategy and China’s angering behav

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In back-to-back posts, Professor Dan Drezner talks about strategy. In the first case, Drezner talks about President Obama’s National Security Strategy, which last month was released and meant to detail everything that the president thought was a national security risk ...

gringo lost | Billie Bender | Friday, 18 June 2010

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the changing politics of flagrant rights-violations

Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman recently introduced the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2011" (PDF). This legislation would allow the executive branch to name any person (citizen or non-citizen, whether in the US or overseas) as ...

Peter Levine's Blog | Peter Levine | Friday, 19 March 2010

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Really, Really, High-Stakes Testing

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In college I spent a semester as a TA for an introductory course. My duties were to assist a student who was blind, taking notes for him on the visual aids shown during lecture, meeting with him to review ...

Science Of Small Talk | Sam Sommers | Friday, 9 April 2010

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Sports

Peekaboo

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Way back when the ECCC season started at Rutgers nearly 3 weeks ago, most schools were beginning their spring breaks. Not Tufts. No, we Jumbos were busy taking exams and handing in papers. And even the next week, when a ...

Rolling Untrue | Evan Cooper | Monday, 22 March 2010

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NESCAC Football Playoffs

  The college football season kicked off last weekend and already we have witnessed some meaningful games that could have a major impact on National Championship hopes.  Oklahoma had the balls to schedule a talented and experienced BYU team for its ...

Jonathan Tatum's Blog | Jonathan Tatum | Saturday, 12 September 2009

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Building and Rebuilding

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In this sport, everything is about building and rebuilding in one way or another. When training, we are constantly breaking ourselves down with long hours in the saddle and hard, focused efforts in order to build ourselves up for our ...

Rolling Untrue | Evan Cooper | Thursday, 21 January 2010

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On the mend

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After some time off from any focused training thanks to my unfortunate affinity for making friends with the front of automobiles, I was finally able to get back to business this past weekend. I made it through a tough week ...

Rolling Untrue | Evan Cooper | Tuesday, 18 May 2010

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You'll never rain on my parade!

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I have this theory, a little hypothesis if you will, that I want to run by you. It's pretty simple, and I guarantee that you can test it out for yourself to prove me right or wrong if you feel ...

Rolling Untrue | Evan Cooper | Monday, 24 August 2009

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A Beginning and An End

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I'm sure that my long absence has lost me any faithful followers I may have once had, but for those of you still interested enough to reading this, hello again!It would be a waste of time to recap the past ...

Rolling Untrue | Evan Cooper | Tuesday, 19 January 2010

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Arts & Culture

How To Destroy Angels FREE EP

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How To Destroy Angels, the collaboration between Trent Reznor, wife Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross, have released their much-hyped debut self-titled EP through their site for free, as well as in several different other priced packages. The EP boasts six ...

The Whole Shebash | The Whole Shebash | Friday, 11 June 2010

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Pop Criticism: A Shot-by-Shot Analysis of 3Oh!3's "Don't Trust Me"

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[Preface: This piece was something I wrote last summer while in severe essay-writing withdrawal (yes, that exists). It occupies that tenuous space between parody of a genre and actually being a genuine attempt - in this case, film criticism. ...

Pop Culture Gone Bad | Devin Toohey | Monday, 29 March 2010

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Holiday to Arran

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Ian MacLellan's Blog | Ian MacLellan | Sunday, 28 March 2010

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Rain

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The marsh and beach in Revere ...

Ian MacLellan's Blog | Ian MacLellan | Thursday, 25 February 2010

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Lady Gaga- "Alejandro" VIDEO

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I apologize for how long it's taken TWS to post this video, because to me it is one of her most interesting choices. She has reached a stage in her career where her videos have become ubiquitous, and after ...

The Whole Shebash | The Whole Shebash | Friday, 11 June 2010

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remembered the stroke of your beard inside my thigh high before the ...

emerald carter | emerald carter | Wednesday, 24 February 2010

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Science and Technology

Failing Gracefully in Complex Systems: A Note on Resilience

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Macbeth’s castle, Act 1, Scene VII. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are plotting Duncan’s death. Macbeth: If we should fail? Lady Macbeth: Then we fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we’ll not fail. Complex dynamic systems tend to veer towards c...

iRevolution | Patrick Meier | Saturday, 10 April 2010

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Book Chapter: Manga

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It isn't entirely a new paper, but my paper "Japanese Visual Language" is now published in the anthology Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives now out in paperback. A brief description of my chapter: Over the past two ...

The Visual Linguist | Neil Cohn | Thursday, 29 April 2010

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Burning your Bridges

I was just reading an article about something totally unrelated, but they mentioned the old saying "don't burn your bridges" and it got me thinking. I was just teaching in my HF course about decision making and how we ...

Human Factors | Marc Resnick | Wednesday, 9 June 2010

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Hagel on Florida

You can't do better than reading this. When one brilliant forward thinker reviews the book of another brilliant forward thinker, you get two for the price of one. And when he posts it on his blog, the price ...

Human Factors | Marc Resnick | Tuesday, 15 June 2010

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The iPad vs. The Book

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Have you ever considered buying a Kindle? Or an iPad?  With annual sales of so-called e-readers in the millions, it seems as if the book - the paper paged, front-to-back thing -  may soon be a thing of the past. What's the bi...

Breakthrough | Tufts Science Magazine | Thursday, 8 April 2010

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Evidence Suggests Volcanoes on Venus Are Active

This week, researchers revealed the possibility that Venus is geologically active. The authors of a paper published online in Science used findings based on evidence from the European Space Agency’s Venus Express mission. Observations of hot spots by the Visible and ...

Breakthrough | Tufts Science Magazine | Saturday, 10 April 2010

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Stories from Abroad

Annnnd I'm back!

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Like many of my other friends who are abroad and blogging, it appears as though I have fallen into a blogging slump. It may be partially due to the fact that I am busier with school work (where are all ...

720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Saturday, 27 March 2010

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The Great Wall, Scorpions, and the Birds Nests (Part I of II)

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What do all of these have in common? They can all be found in Beijing, China! With only two and a half weeks of classes left, we are all really starting to feel the pressure of classes, group projects, finals, ...

720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Friday, 9 April 2010

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Urgent Blog Post

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Dear Loyal Readers, If you are tempted to ask any of the following questions in the coming days or weeks…1)      Josh, its 85 degrees outside, why are you wearing a hat2)      Josh, haven’t you worn that hat all week?3)      Josh, everybody ...

720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Tuesday, 16 March 2010

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Buses, Bridges, Waterfalls, and Elephants

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So I know I may have gotten a little distracted from my blog over these past few weeks, but rest assured I have not forgotten my vow to keep you updated on all of my adventures, big and small. So ...

720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Friday, 19 March 2010

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Little Thieves!

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Today I have reached another landmark day in my travels: Halfway! Of the 144 days that I am going to spend abroad, today is day 72. It is absolutely amazing to think that just two and a half months ago ...

720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Saturday, 13 March 2010

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From Hiking to Biking

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Friday, January 15 to Saturday, January 16, Before I start I just want to apologize for my lack of blogging over the past week or so. It’s not that I haven’t had interesting experiences to talk about, but I’ve just had ...

720 Days | Josh Aschheim | Sunday, 24 January 2010

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Hubble Telescope's Best Pictures

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Time Magazine has recently released 14 pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope over the past 20 years in a collection entitled "The Hubble Telescope's Greatest Hits."  The pictures are nothing ...

Breakthrough | Tufts Science Magazine | Saturday, 24 April 2010

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Towards an antidote for ricin

Ricin is a protein that comes from castor beans that has been used throughout history as a poison, both intentionally and unintentionally. Ricin is poisonous if inhaled, injected or ingested ...

Breakthrough | Tufts Science Magazine | Tuesday, 20 April 2010

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Makeup: will it kill you or save you?

Studies of ancient Egypt have fascinated scientists for decades.  Most recently, researchers revealed the study that makeup used by ancient Egyptians helped prevent infections common at the time. Researchers found that ...

Breakthrough | Tufts Science Magazine | Thursday, 15 April 2010

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Evidence Suggests Volcanoes on Venus Are

This week, researchers revealed the possibility that Venus is geologically active. The authors of a paper published online in Science used findings based on evidence from the European Space Agency’s ...

Breakthrough | Tufts Science Magazine | Saturday, 10 April 2010

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Will Next Year's TCU Senate Get It?

Today's Daily editorial on the TCU Senate highlights two important things: First, the editorial page doesn't understand student government, and second, next year's Senate must change how it approaches student ...

The Quad | Sunday, 23 May 2010

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Tufts Goes Trayless

The following is a May 9, 2010 news release from Dining Services.  - Tufts Dining is Going Trayless in the Fall MEDFORD, MA – As a result of a successful pilot program in ...

The Quad | Monday, 17 May 2010

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Who's Who In Next Year's TCU Senate

Ed. note: Please welcome Ard Ardalan '13 to The Quad as our new student government correspondent.  In his first post, he lists the people with power in next year's TCU ...

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On Slander, Libel and The "Real World"

I wanted to elaborate on my previous post based on some of the feedback that the issue has been getting in the comments section . There seems to be this illusion ...

The Public Editor | Sunday, 2 May 2010

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Boil Water Notice In Effect

Update 9:39pm: Boston's ABC station has aerial footage from earlier today of the leak in Weston. Update 9:29pm: Tufts announces that campus center will be open until 12 a.m. and Carmichael ...

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