Good morning, Students, Up to this point, you’ve had no idea which candidate I — a single, urban, feminist, anti-racist, female-identifying, liberal academic — supported in this election. I won’t reveal my political stance today, either. The Biden/Harris victory is neither “good” nor “bad” and no political position is “better”…

If while you’re cooking your red herring the oven catches fire and burns the whole house down, killing everyone inside, try to resist casting blame on the oven itself. …

It’s called the Infinite Monkey Theorem, and it goes something like this: Given enough time, a monkey randomly striking keys on a typewriter will end up banging out a copy of Hamlet. ~NPR Dear University Community, When we first heard about this theorem, we were hopeful it would be useful…

INTRODUCTION / ABSTRACT: This re-reading of Jane Eyre, authored by the novel’s antagonist, Bertha Mason, calls into question many narrative elements that were easily accepted in 1847 at the time of its publication. Primarily, the author argues that labeling her a “mad lunatic” with a “pygmy intellect” serves to cloak…

It all began with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math). But then the Humanities Department (AKA “Cue the Violins” Department) complained, so we had to change it to STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math). We thought simply being included in the acronym would placate our faculty in Arts and Humanities, but…