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Martin Dugard: The Friday Essay: Van Gogh describes a blitzkrieg visit to 3 Van Gogh museums in 3 days in Europe. I’ve only been to the one in Amsterdam, which is amazing. I’ll have to try to get to the other ones. Van Gogh was kind of an icon for our lab in Illinois; I’m [...]

Adventures in Ethics and Science: What (not) to do when the system is broken.

Although it was back in the dim mists of the Cretaceous era, I don’t think I ever harbored fantasies of wreaking revenge on my graduate advisors and professors. The closest I ever came (as far as I know) to experiencing this from [...]

Suzanne Wilson from MSU is giving a talk on “Learning Through, From and With the Disciplines” that is focusing on John Dewey.

I finally watched an Illini basketball game yesterday, in what will be their penultimate game of the year. One aspect of their success this year that’s been nice to see in this punitive world is that one of the stars of the show (and the difference in yesterday’s game) was someone that the Champaign-Urbana community was close to running out of town just a year ago.

I understand that the University of Illinois basketball team has made it into the “Final Four.”