I saw that "why aren't the youths reading?" Atlantic article re-shared 8 gazillion times in the last week. Here's a response from the English teacher interviewed in the article: "The Atlantic Did Me Dirty." cmsthomas.substack.com/p/the-atlant...
Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the...
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Hahaha this is lovely. Married 25 to a quantum gravity theorist myself.
A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY DID THIS
“For much of the blue cheese made in the U.S., we have Minnesota to thank. If it weren’t for University of Minnesota professor Willes Barnes Combs and some random geological occurrences, we would still be relying on Europe to meet our blue cheese needs.”
A U of M professor began experimenting with producing the cheese in St. Paul's sandstone caves when World War II stopped exports from France.