First graders back to school in Hangzhou, with social distancing headgear The long horizontal plumes on Song Dynasty toppers were supposedly to prevent officials from conspiring sotto voce with one another while at court—so social distancing was in fact their original function!

Page proofs are in and due back in a month!

Here are the requirements for my math midterm next week. You tell me if these instructions are easy to follow and don't make you nervous.

It's 2.30 on Thursday again...so eClass is (once again) having trouble.

New eClass features are irrelevant to me. I'd be happy if it just didn't crash during the first week of school...15 minutes before my class starts. Then again...it's a lesson about focusing on maintenance not just 'innovation!' #maintainers STS York University tinyurl.com/my6vnah9

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My new case study when explaining 'solutionism': rather than re-think what 'cheating' means in the light of ChatGPT, or (god forbid) how assessments are done...just create a new app. cbc.ca/news/business/…

It may not feel like spring, but the snow drops are up. Always an encouraging sign.

RIP Ian Hacking philosophy.utoronto.ca/news/in-memori…

Late to the party but my new favourite phrase: 'McKinsey Stalinism', via Ulrich Beck fr.de/kultur/wiederk… sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/weaponis…