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Name: Bill Wolff  |  william.i.wolff@gmail.com

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Written on October 20th, 2007 at 9:29 am by Bill

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I have reached the pinnacle of my career: I’ve been cited in a talk about the origins of the universe. What could be more important? An old friend who I met in Paris back in 1994 while on my Watson Fellowship, Hugh Hill, is an associate professor of Space Science at the International Space University. Yesterday [...]

Written on October 18th, 2007 at 8:34 am by Bill

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Just came across this: The Blogging Scholarship. Funded by College Scholarships, this is an annual award that provides college student bloggers up to “$10,000 to help pay for books, tuition, or other living costs.” Full or part-time students eligible. The 2007 deadline has just passed (see the 20 finalists, which have blogs on a range [...]

Written on October 14th, 2007 at 9:05 pm by Bill

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Last weekend, after reflecting on the fact that I talk about it all the time with students regardless of what class I am teaching, I decided to take the plunge and get a Facebook account. According to the fascinating Wired article, “How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web’s Hottest Platform,” I was 1 of [...]

Written on October 12th, 2007 at 11:13 pm by Bill

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Michael Wesch, creator of The Machine is Us/ing Us, has collaborated with 200 students in his Cultural Anthropology class to create a new video, A Vision of Students Today: The video, set in a 60s- or 70s-era stadium-seating lecture hall, presents the technological and educational habits of the 200 or so students in his class. It [...]