tag“teaching”
What Black History Month means to me
I was in high school during the 1980s. In a little rural town in Ohio where casual racism was perfectly commonplace. Black History Month had been around for 15 years, and people already loved to complain about “Isn’t EVERY month Black History Month?”
read the rest →The cowardice of the powerful: educational leadership in DEI
Every year my institution measures faculty productivity by requiring us to submit a report of our annual activities. This year I noticed that two sections had silently disappeared.
read the rest →Org mode, LaTeX, and tagged PDFs: producing accessible documents
Many of us in higher education use Emacs to produce course materials, and these must conform to the accessibility requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. We often export Org mode documents to LaTeX to produce very nice PDF output. But until very recently, LaTeX could not produce tagged PDFs that conform to the PDF/UA accessibility standard. Until how recently? Only starting with TeX Live 2025.
read the rest →Just a theory: the flat earth vs. evolution
One of my proudest moments as a father went like this. I asked my fifteen-year-old son:
read the rest →Viva Argentina! Viva ciencia! Viva la tierra redonda!
One of my proudest moments as a father went like this. I asked my fifteen-year-old son:
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