The Trouble with Double X | The American Prospect "In the site’s introductory video, one of the editors, Hanna Rosin, says, "If you take something like Slate and you have it edited by three women, instead of the people it’s edited by, well that’s the kind of magazine that we want to turn out." She… Continue reading links for 2009-05-16
Author: Chad Orzel
The Logo Problem
Speaking of conferences (as we were a little while ago), the Female Science Professor has a post on the phenomenon of logos in talk slides: Do you put your institution’s logo in your talks and on your posters at conferences? If you put a logo in your talk, do you put the logo on every… Continue reading The Logo Problem
There’s No Escaping Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell has a number of public responses to the sort of thing I ranted about the other day— not to me specifically, mind, but to the same general points– on his own blog and on ESPN’s Page 2. It’s pretty much the same argument others made in the comments to my post. Taking a… Continue reading There’s No Escaping Malcolm Gladwell
Conference Self-Organization
DAMOP is next week, and Tom uses this to talk about socialization at conferences: The DAMOP conference is coming up, and that reminds me of a conference-related phenomenon related to gathering a group to go off to a meal. This doesn’t manifest itself when the conference provides meals, so it wasn’t an issue last fall;… Continue reading Conference Self-Organization
links for 2009-05-15
News: Students as Lemmings – Inside Higher Ed "The researchers find "clear evidence that peer driven students on average perform worse than the ability driven in terms of both average and final grade," though they acknowledge that the "effect is small in magnitude" — about two-tenths of a grade point on a 30 point grade… Continue reading links for 2009-05-15
Thursday Baby Blogging 051409
This is Week 40 of Thursday Baby Blogging, meaning that SteelyKid has nominally reached the point where she has been out in the world as long as she was gestating. Let’s see what she thinks: SteelyKid says “Huh? I thought that wasn’t for another couple of weeks…” And it’s true, she was late in arriving.… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 051409
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
I watched Jonah Lehrer on the Colbert Report a few months ago, and thought he did a really good job. So, when we were offered free copies of his new book, How We Decide, I asked for one, even though it’s not my usual sort of thing. The main point of the book is that… Continue reading How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
We Just Turned the Machine Off, and the Antimatter Went Away
I’m a little surprised that I haven’t seen bloggers commenting on Tom Hanks’s appearance on The Daily Show, in which he talks about CERN: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Tom Hanks thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor Everything he says is pretty much true, but… Continue reading We Just Turned the Machine Off, and the Antimatter Went Away
links for 2009-05-14
Angels & Demons – The science behind the story CERN explains what antimatter is really about. (tags: science physics education movies particles) Figgleton v. Ditchens « Easily Distracted "As with many similarly well-worn discussions, Iâd just as soon review the available lines of argument about why secular or atheistic thinkers perhaps should have an interest… Continue reading links for 2009-05-14
A Ticklish Situation
It has come to my attention that unspecified people are having a bad couple of days for unspecified reasons and could use a pick-me-up. Thus, I give you the cutest laughing baby in the universe. Hope this helps. Have a nice day.