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	<description>The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.</description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; 8/8/09</title>
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Newsweek &#8211; August 10/17 2009

Israel&#8217;s Chief Diplomat Goes M.I.A. &#8211; Israel&#8217;s top diplomat takes a trip to South America when Obama&#8217;s Middle East envoy, defense secretary, and national security advisor come to negotiate.  He&#8217;s ultra-right wing and apparently an embarrassment to Israelis.
Iran&#8217;s Widening Fault Lines &#8211; Economic differences between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad have the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2009/08/08/what-im-reading-8809/</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; 8/7/09</title>
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New York Times

White House Is Struggling to Measure Success in Afghanistan &#8211; What are the right metrics for success in Afghanistan?  Congress (rightly) demands some measure of the progress of the war, but choosing the right things to monitor can undermine congressional or public support.


The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Laboratory of Collaborative Learning &#8211; &#8220;Undergraduate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2009/08/07/what-im-reading-8709/</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; 8/6/09</title>
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New York Times

For Today&#8217;s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics &#8211; Graduates with a statistics background are &#8220;finding themselves increasingly in demand &#8211; and even cool.&#8221;  &#8220;&#8216;The key is to let the computers do what they are good at, which is trawling massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd,&#8217; said Daniel Gruhl, an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2009/08/06/what-im-reading-8609/</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; 8/5/09</title>
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Creating an On-Demand Learning Experience &#8211; Echo360 presents a webinar on their new Building Block for Blackboard.  25 licenses for faculty to create videos using their laptop (screen capture, audio, webcam).  Each account can post 10 presentations/3GB max.  Intended to compliment classroom learning/video capture.
Slashdot

US Marine Corps Bans Social Networking Sites &#8211; This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2009/08/05/what-im-reading-8509/</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; 8/4/09</title>
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Parabola

Kosiya, the Buddhist Scrooge &#8211; The king&#8217;s treasurer learns that &#8220;Generosity makes space in the mind and heart, while hoarding creates an interior prison.&#8221;


New York Times

Giant Particle Collider Fizzles, Adding to the Mysteries of Life &#8211; Electrical problems with the Large Hadron Collider mean it will be years, if ever, before its most ambitious work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2009/08/04/what-im-reading-8409/</link>
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		<title>The New Library Web Site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy Morton, along with others in the Library, and Eric Palmer and the Web Services group have just this morning launched the new University of Richmond Library web site.  As Andy mentioned in a message on Twitter this morning, it&#8217;s a project he&#8217;s been working on since October 2008.  I know he&#8217;s been thinking about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2009/08/03/the-new-library-web-site/</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;m Reading &#8211; 8/3/09</title>
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The Chronicle of Higher Education

An Intellectual Movement for the Masses &#8211; Positive psychology fights off New Age approaches that detract from ongoing scholarship.
Will Higher Education Ever Change as It Should? &#8211; Robert Zemsky proposes methods for bringing about systemic change in higher education.  I&#8217;m not certain he does a thorough job of outlining the specific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2009/08/03/what-im-reading/</link>
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		<title>Elizabeth Gilbert on Creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another of my favorite TED Talks: Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love talks about the challenges of a creative life.  She offers an interesting approach to encouraging creative people to thrive. (20 minutes)

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		<link>http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2009/07/28/elizabeth-gilbert-on-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Liz Coleman on a Liberal Arts Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bennington College&#8217;s president, Liz Coleman, speaks about the place of the liberal arts and how Bennington is framing their approach to educating engaged citizens.

Her speech touches on so many points of interest: a generalist approach to education to the importance of civic engagement.  This is a TED talk worth watching.
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		<link>http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2009/06/01/liz-coleman-on-a-liberal-arts-education/</link>
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		<title>Can Anyone See This Video?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A University of Richmond student on his blindness and how learning about government services changed his life.

Thanks to Lit Maxwell for sharing this.
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		<link>http://kevincreamer.net/panda/2009/05/19/can-anyone-see-this-video/</link>
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