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Welcome to Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Colony offers a counterpoint to the corporate colonization of Jamestown if only because the Mayflower missed its destination. The Mayflower was intended to arrive in Virginia with additional settlers for the growing Virginia colony. However, the ship was forced to put ashore at what is today Plymouth Rock in
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Mixing Toxic Chemicals
Nina asked me about Miamisburg, Ohio, recently. In 1986, I lived about 35 miles away from Miamisburg when a CSX train derailed, releasing a toxic cloud over a large part of the region. Separate cars carrying phosphorus, molten sulfur, tallow, and other fun stuff all started to leak into the
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Jamestown, Democracy Gone Awry
Colonial Virginia offers a different path toward governance. Jamestown was originally settled in 1607. Jamestown was not the first English colony in North America, but the Lost Colony of Roanoke had disappeared nearly two decades before and was never heard from again. Jamestown’s settlers were sent to North America to
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Blowing the Hatch
Something caught my attention. I watched The Right Stuff last night and was looking up something about Gus Grissom. Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 flight has been the subject of great controversy over how the hatch was blown after splashdown. The hatch blow resulted in a loss of the vehicle, though
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Cache of Old Syllabi
I recently happened upon a cache of old syllabi for my math courses going to back to the fall of 2014. As these syllabi are centrally developed (more or less) by the course chairs, they generally reflect the state of the course at UMGC/UMUC during each semester. Included here are
Continue readingThis Post Means Nothing of Consequence
Effective today, I received a promotion at the University of Maryland Global Campus, which until yesterday, is what we called “University of Maryland University College.” I’ve been teaching for 9 years at UMGC, and was promoted to Adjunct Assistant Professor in 2015. In case you want to know what this
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I Got a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering and Science!
Apparently, these things come as PDFs now! Anyway, for the last couple of years, I’ve taken a few classes here and there at the Johns Hopkins School of Engineering and completed the master of science program in environmental engineering and science. Since I finished the doctoral program at UMBC writing
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