I just learned that a longtime supporter of the blog and a reader-turned-real-life-friend, Alex Small, passed away yesterday after a battle with brain cancer (diagnosed in April). Alex was smart, funny, and passionate about his students and his work as a professor of physics at Cal Poly Pomona (edit on 12/23: in memoriam for Alex…

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Also known as “how to channel one’s fury over spending 85% of grading time deciding how much partial credit to give for barely relevant scribbles”

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