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October 3, 2016

Prevention Is Better Than Cure

Author(s)3: Art Johnson

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Modern medicine is overwhelmingly reactive rather than proactive. Get sick, seek medical help. How expensive that model is! If everyone only got sick and then sought medical assistance, we could…

July 14, 2016

Student Management Teams

Author(s)3: Art Johnson

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It may seem like letting the fox in to guard the henhouse when students are asked to help with the way a class is taught, but it can be valuable…

May 23, 2016

Food for the Future

Author(s)3: Art Johnson

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Food is national security. Food is economy. It is employment, energy, history. Food is everything. —Spanish chef José Andrés The supermarket in Tijuana had a display of fresh fruits and vegetables, but…

March 14, 2016

Courage

Author(s)3: Art Johnson

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“Fate loves the fearless.” That was the fortune inside my wife’s fortune cookie that had been brought to her after a satisfying Chinese meal. How appropriate was that fortune days…

January 25, 2016

The Hygiene Hypothesis

Author(s)3: Art Johnson

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Some call it the five-second rule, some extend that to five minutes, and some don’t care. This is the amount of time people are comfortable with picking up and eating…

November 16, 2015

Develop the Foresight to Anticipate Hindsight

Author(s)3: Art Johnson

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Shopping is not my favorite activity, but when I do have that opportunity, usually when on vacation, I often find myself in shops catering to tourists. Of course, the shop…

September 28, 2015

It Is Diversity of Experience That Counts

Author(s)3: Art Johnson

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Isaac Asimov, the celebrated science fiction writer, once wrote an essay about creativity [1]. The truly creative mind, he wrote, is one that makes new connections between previously separated concepts.…

July 13, 2015

The Raving

Author(s)3: Art Johnson

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[In the early days of my teaching, when I taught a graduate-level instrumentation systems course in the department, I used to find means to challenge my students in unconventional ways…

May 14, 2015

Why Are Our Teachers Taking It on the Chin?

Author(s)3: Art Johnson

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Two headlines tell it all. The first, on the cover of the 3 November 2014 issue of Time, says, “Rotten Apples: It’s Nearly Impossible to Fire a Bad Teacher.” The…