By Prof. Hacker. The first thing we probably want to do once we got a site is to change the title and some basic information. To do so, you need to edit the 
_config.yml file on your text editor. The file is located on the top level of your myresearch folder. Fire up your TextWrangler, or whatever you’re using, and open the file as you normally would from inside your text editor. This file is written in the YAML language. Read more...By Prof. Hacker. In this 3-part tutorial I will be covering the basics of my site generator of choice, Jekyll. Alas, Jekyll only really works smoothly for Mac and Linux machines. In this tutorial I will be assuming a Mac machine, but I’m confident that Linux users will find it easy to extrapolate. Windows users, By Prof. Hacker. When I was younger, I would study for my science tests by shutting myself in my closet with headphones and favorite tapes in the Walkman (?! God, I’m ancient). I can’t imagine how I did this and still was able to focus (New York State Biology Olympiad winner for ninth grade!), even though I know that some research indicates that listening to music increases cognitive function. Read more...By George Williams. In my courses, I often put students into small, temporary groups for collaborative work that takes place in class or over the course of a few days. This work ranges from analysis of an assigned reading to researching a local issue to creating a digital resource to conducting an interview with a faculty or community member. Read more...By Amy Cavender. The new academic year has arrived (or soon will, for those who start after Labor Day). Though there may be a certain sadness to the end of summer, a new academic year can also bring the excitement of a fresh start. It’s a time for meeting new people and trying new things, for faculty no less than for students. Read more...
By Lucy Ferriss. I am not prepared to engage in the Passive Wars. As with any dispute, however, it behooves us to know what the heck it is we’re fighting about. As my colleague Geoffrey Pullum and others have observed, verb constructions described as passive often aren’t any such thing, and the very word passive suggests a kind of prose that lacks get-up-and-go, or whatever it is our sentences ought to have. More...
By Allan Metcalf. Back in the day, the take away we knew was a verb plus adverb combination that had something to do with subtraction — six take away three is three. In the 21st century, however, take away has been compressed into a noun, like carbon into a diamond. More...
By Anne Curzan. The news was forwarded to me over email. “Grammar Police = Female Millennials.” And apparently 46 percent of American adults typically correct family or friends when they mispronounce words. More...
By Geoffrey Pullum. August is gone, and with it the Edinburgh Festival and its fabulous Fringe. The grand orchestral concert with fireworks over the castle was on Monday night, the climax of a perfect summer day. All the most ambitious comedians in the country are now checking out of their rented accommodation and heading for the train station or the airport. And I have promises to keep. More...
By Al Martinich and Tom Palaima. The removal of Jefferson Davis’s statue from its prominent location on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin this week may appear to end the university’s difficult struggle to shake off its historical embrace of racist values and practices. It does not. More...
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