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Online, you can't read my, can't read my, can't read my poker face.

Boring enough to make Princeton students play poker against each other. Via the Times:

Allan Rubin, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University, banned laptops in his 120-strong class on natural disasters after discovering that some of the students were playing online poker during his lectures.

“What I found, and it was getting worse over the years, was that a larger and larger fraction of the students just had their heads buried in their laptops as I lectured,” he said.“I know from teaching assistants who were wandering around when the laptops were open that they were surfing the Web. They were playing poker with each other.”

I’ve got money on the guy sitting in the back.

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Mar 11, 2010

Just how boring are lectures, exactly?

By Will Saborio

Posted in In the news Also tagged poker, Times Leave a comment

Do you like the New York Times? Do you like hearing really, really interesting people speak? Well have we got the lecture for you.

The University Press Club is excited to bring New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn M.P.A. ‘88 to Princeton. They’ll give a lecture titled “Half the Sky” at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow, on Thursday, February 4, in Dodds Auditorium in Robertson Hall. (That’s Woody Woo, in case you were wondering.)

And if that’s not enough, they’ll stick around for a book signing of their new book “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.”

Get there early – seats will be limited.

The Louis R. Rukeyser ’54 Memorial Lecture Series seeks to promote interest in the pursuit of journalism and to raise awareness of the role of the media in society. The event is also sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.

Feb 3, 2010

New York Times columnist/Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists to give talk at Woody Woo tomorrow