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...case there is any doubt about what "multiply" is referring to, a brief interlude interrupts the song. In a classroom, a teacher attempts to mathematically explain why rabbit overpopulation has occurred...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bunnies (and House Videos) Don't Die. They Multiply. | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...Whoa, can you run that by me one more time? Totes don't get it," a "Mathur" resident says. Eventually the teacher is able to come down to the level of this ignoramus, saying: "Because bunnies like to have—" Sex? Babies? Sex for babies? The scene is cut off abruptly...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bunnies (and House Videos) Don't Die. They Multiply. | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...Hanks' star rose in the 1990s, he sought out new sources of what he calls "entertainable historical knowledge." Leon Uris' fact-anchored novels - Mila 18, Armageddon and Exodus - taught Hanks to feel history in a way no high school teacher ever did, but the entertainment level had to be hyperkinetic to hold his attention. It was the same with most academic histories. "The writing is often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," he says. Ken Burns' miniseries The Civil War, which aired on PBS in the fall of 1990, gave him a sense of how he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

Common remedies for bad schools include more resources and teacher training programs, and both of those can be beneficial solutions. Yet identity economics shows us that a school’s culture can be just as important, if not more so, in contributing to the success of its students. Akerlof and Kranton explain how many schools that have bucked the trend and succeeded where others have not have done so because of a cohesive culture where teachers and students feel united for a common mission or purpose. There are few, if any, “outsiders,” because...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Identity and Incentives | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...mentors is my former teacher, Robert Coles. There’s a huge poster in my office of Sawyer on “Lost” reading a Walker Percy novel, which I read in Coles' class, "Moral and Social Inquiry." The themes of that class permeated deeply into my writer’s brain. I took physics, and lo and behold, there’s a lot of physics in “Lost.” I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it’s been a chance...

Author: By TOBIAS S. STEIN and Logan R. Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: 15 Questions with A. Carlton Cuse ’81 | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

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