http://mtc.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Ben Guest, Program Manager of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Namibia, and Amherst College graduate... en Vox Mon, 12 May 2008 10:12:58 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/gladwell.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/gladwell.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/gladwell.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 12 May 2008 10:12:58 -0700 Malcolm Gladwell is one of my favorite authors. He has a great ability to assimilate and explain complex data. I've been reading through some of his past New Yorker articles. Here are three of my favorites, with quotes: The Taboo of Race and... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cf704510002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> crime sports race suv psychology safety malcolm gladwell http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-2.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-2.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-2.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 11 May 2008 10:19:50 -0700 Three links about teaching in America: High School teacher fired after these photos appeared online. Yet more evidence of America's insane prudishness... How do you, as a teacher, feel about cell phones in school? Would you feel differently ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/links-2.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cf70fe70003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> links education http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/admissions.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/admissions.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/admissions.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 10 May 2008 14:02:07 -0700 Amherst College has record number of applicants: In what many call the most grueling college admissions year ever, Amherst College finally sent out 1,096 letters of admittance to the class of 2012. The College accepted 14.2 percent of all first-... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/admissions.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f866b30005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> admissions amherst college http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/prison.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/prison.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/prison.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 09 May 2008 07:34:14 -0700 An Amherst student and a Hampshire County Correctional Facility inmate have a Boston Globe op-ed: Yes, going to prison necessarily entails the loss of liberty. But the right to vote is in many ways more important than the right to walk freely d... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/prison.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48d1517be0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> prison amherst college http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/burgandy.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/burgandy.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/burgandy.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 08 May 2008 10:42:03 -0700 <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/burgandy.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900f48cf618c60002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> basketball nba charles barkley http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/creationist.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/creationist.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/creationist.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 08 May 2008 07:12:10 -0700 Freakonomics Q and A with Frans De Waal: Q: Does religiously motivated rejection of evolution (e.g. creationism) ever get in your way when working? A: I don’t experience this kind of resistance in science, in which evolutionary theory is obviou... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/creationist.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f7ad910005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> religion god biology creationism freakonomics http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/point.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/point.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/point.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 08 May 2008 05:55:11 -0700 Fiel, as usual, on point: First off, it's illogical to suggest that these voters who may prefer her over Obama will not vote for Obama if he's the Democratic nominee. Why is it that Hillary can win 60% of the white working class vote, and we a... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/point.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22523f3adf21900e398f7a8e80005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> president politics clinton obama fiel http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/intern-1.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Ben Guest) http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/intern-1.html?_c=feed-rss http://mtc.vox.com/library/post/intern-1.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 07 May 2008 05:52:07 -0700 Part Two of the MTC 2007 Summer Intern film. 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