Thursday, July 23, 2015



The Fundamental Way That Universities Are an Illusion (NYT)

…[A]ccreditors are charged with an impossible task: to certify that a whole college, which doesn’t really exist, educationally speaking, is educationally sound. Inevitably, many colleges with … accreditation nonetheless graduate students with substandard skills. All of the for-profit colleges that have made headlines in recent years for predatory and fraudulent practices were accredited….

The Really Big One (New Yorker)

An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...