Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education – Inside Higher Ed :: Spray-Painting Pynchon “The quality of them is not the greatest. This is obviously not a professional tagger,” he said. “English majors and graffiti artists generally don’t seem to be the same demographic.” (tags: silly literature books academia)
Author: Chad Orzel
Maryland vs. Illinois
The first half of Maryland’s 69-61 win over Illinois was as ugly a half of basketball as you’d ever want to see. It actually resembled our lunchtime pick-up games in some ways– lots of really clever passes being throw to guys who weren’t ready, weren’t able to catch the ball, or just weren’t on the… Continue reading Maryland vs. Illinois
Notable Science of the Recent Past
In comments to my earlier cranky post about the New York Times, Carl Zimmer pointed out that they hadn’t released their “Ten Best Books” list, so there was still an outside chance of a science book turning up. They posted the list today, and there’s nothing on it that wasn’t also on the Notable Books… Continue reading Notable Science of the Recent Past
links for 2007-11-29
Lucas: More evidence of the talent gap between the Big Ten and ACC “Instead of the annual bloodletting, otherwise known as the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, maybe a Big Ten/MEAC Challenge would help bolster the ego” (tags: basketball) Spoof London Underground Announcements – Emma Clarke Voiceover and Writer “We’d like to remind our American tourist friends… Continue reading links for 2007-11-29
Experimental Physics for Complete Morons
Today’s lesson: Lead bricks are really heavy. That is all. Carry on.
Non-Dorky Poll: The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection
You may have thought you saw some other posts here earlier in the day. You didn’t. Pay no attention to the vanishing posts about things I wasn’t supposed to post about. This means, though, that I don’t have any content on the blog, other than a cranky note about an idiot radio host, so, ummmm….… Continue reading Non-Dorky Poll: The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection
Hateful Talk Radio Update
I generally listen to ESPN radio in my office in the morning, because I like the Mike & Mike show. Unfortunately, they’re followed by Colin Cowherd, who is a world-class pinhead. He’s currently holding forth on the death of Sean Taylor, with his basic position being that Taylor had it coming because he had a… Continue reading Hateful Talk Radio Update
Inside Peer Review
Over at Unqualified Offerings, “Thoreau” offers some musings about peer review. I saw this and said, “Aha! The perfect chance to dust off an old post, and free up some time…” Sadly, I already recycled the post in question, so I feel obliged to be less lazy and contribute some new content. I generally agree… Continue reading Inside Peer Review
links for 2007-11-28
John Cusack | The A.V. Club “You try to make it as good as you can, but with an action movie or whatever it is, you’re doing it so you can get leverage to go do Grace Is Gone or whatever these other ones are. So there’s a ceiling on how good you can make… Continue reading links for 2007-11-28
If Popularizers Are Treated Like Kooks, Only Kooks Will Be Popularizers
Over at Backreaction, Bee has a long and thoughtful post (they don’t do any other kind) about the interaction between science and the popular imagination. She says a lot of interesting things, but I think she comes to the wrong conclusion at the end, when she writes: However, despite this general trend, what worries me… Continue reading If Popularizers Are Treated Like Kooks, Only Kooks Will Be Popularizers