Syllabus Easter Egg. Every semester, burrier deep inside my course syllabus, I tell the students who read it carefully, to email me a picture of a horse by a specific date and time (right now, actually), for an extra 5 points. This is what I got this semester, only two students out of fifteen.

OMG OMG what a blast from the past! I wrote this in 2005, several years before I even thought I’d get back into horses after almost twenty years off!!! sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2005/05/my-e... And I also told a story about it in NYC many years ago: m.soundcloud.com/the-story-co...

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