Secondary Refuse

I've decided to close out this blog, and move on to a new, non-anonymous blog. Most of you know who I am, so you can find me pretty easi...

Before tenure, one should never re-prep an entire class. But, of course, I did. I've taught an environmental anthropology class twice be...

It's the most wonderful time of the year...when I write about 3,000 letters of recommendation. Most are for students applying for gradua...

This article summarizes a Quaternary International publication about cave lion diets in the European Paleolithic. (Once again, I can't...

Am I crazy, or just happy? Dr. Mr. Palimpsest and I are expecting our third child in May. This is neither wholly unexpected (we'd disc...

Check out this post by Michael Smith on "War stories from academic job interviews." Interesting stuff, and may give some hope to t...

Never change textbooks. Changing books hardly ever significantly improves your class, so pre-tenure, it just doesn't make sense to inves...