The Field » Texas Early Voting Wave as Reaction to Systemic Disenfranchisement Prairie View students shut down a highway in order to march seven miles for early voting. (tags: academia politics race US) Unruled Notebook » Blog Archive » Guilty of Plagiarizing Seventy Research Papers A chemist published seventy plagiarized papers in three years, despite… Continue reading links for 2008-02-24
Author: Chad Orzel
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Spencer Crew, The Underground Railroad in the Ohio River Valley
I had to do a couple of tests yesterday that required me to start something in the lab and then leave it alone for an hour, so I wandered over to a talk sponsored by the History department. Spencer Crew, the former director of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH was in… Continue reading Spencer Crew, The Underground Railroad in the Ohio River Valley
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sillybean » Translation from Aburt-speak to English of selected portions of his SFWA presidential platform[1] “I don’t understand why people on the internet are so mean to me, but I fully expect that my patronizing approach will bring them to their senses.” (tags: SF writing silly politics) Why We Banned Legos – Volume 21 No.… Continue reading links for 2008-02-23
Literary Poll: Nanotechnology in Fiction?
A reader writes in with a literary query: I was asked to teach a 400-level course on Nanotechnology at my U. In addition to the usual technical content, I would like to include a critical view of how nanotechnology is portrayed in popular culture. So I am looking for suitable works that can be examined.… Continue reading Literary Poll: Nanotechnology in Fiction?
Prospective Hugo Nomination Update
The Hugo Award nomination deadline is fast approaching, so I’ve been doing a bunch of reading to make sure I’ve covered a reasonable range of potential nominees. I’ve been really bad about book-logging recently, but I thought I’d at least post some brief comments on my crash reading here, for those who are just dying… Continue reading Prospective Hugo Nomination Update
Those Who Have No $&%#@! Idea, Go Into Administration
Inside Higher Ed reports on this week’s candidate for Dumbest Administration Ever: Arkansas Tech: After the Virginia Tech murders a year ago, Yale University banned the use of stage weapons in a student theatrical production — infuriating actors and educators who believed audience members could distinguish drama from real life. After a few days of… Continue reading Those Who Have No $&%#@! Idea, Go Into Administration
Half-Remembered Factoids of Science: Transportation
Over at Arcane Gazebo, Travis talks about commuting, based on an Ezra Klein post: Longtime readers know my obsession with the way we overvalue positional goods like money, prestige, and real estate and undervalue non-positional goods like social connections, walking to work, and health. But the evidence really is clear that you need to make… Continue reading Half-Remembered Factoids of Science: Transportation
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Scientists probe fireballs with X-rays – physicsworld.com “Theories put forward so far suggest that this “ball lightning” is either a moving electrical discharge or that it is some kind of self-contained object. Now, research from an Israeli group is making the latter seem more likely. “ (tags: physics science news experiment) The 2008 Tournament of… Continue reading links for 2008-02-22
A Series of Tubes
Over at Terra Sigillata, Abel Pharmboy has live-blogged his own vasectomy. Why did he do this? Your guess is as good as mine. Why am I linking to it? Misery loves company. Until I figure out a way to scrub that knowledge out of my brain, the best I can do is make sure that… Continue reading A Series of Tubes