The purpose of the looking at the future...is to disturb the present!

Gaston Berger (1896-1960), francuski futurolog

Academic closures, mergers, cuts: a summer 2025 update

Greetings from early July. I’m back home in northern Virginia where the heat is blazing and the humidity sopping.  Weather.com thinks it “feels like 102° F” and I agree.  The cats also agree, because they retreated elegantly inside to air … Continue reading →
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