news of the week

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McGill University was using Turnitin (sounds like an anti-fungal to me) on a trial basis to detect plagiarism. A student refused to turn in his assignments to the site as a prerequisite to be graded, and was given a zero grade. After some runaround, McGill agreed to grade his papers without Turnitin's input.

Cool stuff via Mike Andrews in The Other Place: It's not the volts, it's the amps (the video ain't there anymore; try this).