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		<title>My next chair</title>
		<link>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2010/04/my-next-chair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad knees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leisure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rocking chair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[woodworking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love to build things. That probably comes with being a scientist: the challenge of making a bunch of things fit together. I&#8217;ve built much of the furniture we have in the house, plus a couple of canoes, clocks, and the like. Because of my bad knees, a couple of years ago I built myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you want to be a great reviewer</title>
		<link>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2010/04/so-you-want-to-be-a-great-reviewer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constructive writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my current position as Editor-in-Chief of the American Naturalist, I read all kinds of reviews of scientific papers from all kinds of people. I routinely get asked, particularly by graduate students, what makes a good review. Here are a few thoughts on the subject. The first task of the reviewer is to prove to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unifying the unified theories of biodiversity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physics envy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unified theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A paper in Ecology Letters describes a &#8220;unification&#8221; of the six unified theories of ecology (doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01449.x). I didn&#8217;t know we had six &#8220;unified&#8221; theories to start with. (How can there be more than one &#8220;unified&#8221; theory? But that&#8217;s beside the point.) The paper claims that all six of our &#8220;unified&#8221; theories are based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobody can give you an education</title>
		<link>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2010/03/nobody-can-give-you-an-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2010/03/nobody-can-give-you-an-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody can give you an education; you have to take it. I just finished another term of teaching. Most students are outstanding to work with. They are intellectually engaged, they are inquisitive, and they demand more from you as an instructor. These characteristics are true of students across the grade spectrum. In fact, students who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are exams for?</title>
		<link>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2010/03/what-are-exams-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exams]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you teach long enough, you start to think that students are only after an extra point on an exam, and not trying to learn from what you are trying to teach them &#8211; particularly the broader learning experiences that students should be having in genuinely evaluating their own performance, and engaging in self-critical evaluations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What one Republican wants to know about Health Care reform</title>
		<link>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2009/08/what-one-republican-wants-to-know-about-health-care-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2009/08/what-one-republican-wants-to-know-about-health-care-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/?p=113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What I want to know: I want to know why begging an insurance company bureaucrat to cover some medical treatment is better than petitioning the government for a similar service. I want to know why indirectly paying for someone’s very expensive visit to an emergency room (through higher insurance premiums and hospital costs) is better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Authors and Rejection</title>
		<link>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2009/06/new-authors-and-rejection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new author]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rejection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientific publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I was on a panel of Editors that was answering questions from scientists about how scientific papers are published, and giving advice to help authors. This happened at the joint, American Society of Naturalist/Society for the Study of Evolution/Society of Systematic Biologists meeting in Moscow, Idaho. One of the most fascinating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t we do experiments anymore?</title>
		<link>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2009/06/why-dont-we-do-experiments-anymore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2009/06/why-dont-we-do-experiments-anymore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[causation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[observations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/?p=95</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I came into the science of ecology during the mid-1980&#8242;s. This was a time when ecologists were learning the lesson that one cannot simply go out and collect observational data to test hypotheses. Proving that species compete by demonstrating Hutchinsonian ratios proved to be a rather futile endeavor, to say the least. The problem is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The hardest transition</title>
		<link>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-hardest-transition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2009/05/the-hardest-transition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 02:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what's the right question]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the hardest transitions that students have to make on the way to becoming a scientist is embracing the uncertainty of what you have to do. Science is a very weird endeavor. The philosophy of science explains why a scientist can never know whether they have the correct answer to a question; one can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Returning to the Small Teaching College?</title>
		<link>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2009/05/returning-to-the-small-teaching-college/</link>
		<comments>http://www.enallagma.com/wordpress/2009/05/returning-to-the-small-teaching-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 01:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dartmouth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alumni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching effectiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[undergraduates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zero-sum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of Dartmouth&#8217;s disgruntled alumni feel that President Wright&#8217;s emphasis on increasing the research and scholarly profile of the faculty to be antithetical to Dartmouth&#8217;s mission. That mission in their minds seems to be defined as undergraduate teaching to the exclusion of all other activities. The sacrifice of teaching effectiveness for the sake of research [...]]]></description>
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