Category: Links Dump

In Grad Admissions, Where Is Class? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs “A study just published in PS: Political Science and Politics suggests that in graduate departments, class may be nowhere to be found in admissions decisions.” (tags: academia class-war social-science humanities science) Dennis Overbye — Talk to… Continue reading links for 2008-07-10

Vital Statistics – Summer Sports Are Among the Safest – NYTimes.com “The snowboarding accident rate is higher than the rate for summer pastimes like boating, camping, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, swimming, and water-skiing — combined.” (tags: statistics medicine sports science) stand up for REAL science “We have an obligation to our children to pursue only… Continue reading links for 2008-07-09

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Ask and Ye Shall Receive… Wise and worldly advice about academic job hunting. (tags: academia jobs education) My Semester With an Asperger Syndrome Student :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs I am somewhat uncomfortable about the fact that this article is based… Continue reading links for 2008-07-08

What a drag: Arago’s Experiment (1810) « Skulls in the Stars “[I]t was a failed experiment, based on incorrect theories of light propagation, which was interpreted incorrectly by Fresnel, but this incorrect interpretation helped lead to the (correct) view that light has wavelike properties!” (tags: physics history optics astronomy precision-measurement relativity)

Neurophilosophy : C19th Japanese anatomical scrolls Cool anatomical paintings from 1819. (tags: art biology Japan medicine history science pictures) Population Density Increases in Hell § Unqualified Offerings “They say you should speak no ill of the dead, and indeed, with dead Jesse Helms I have no beef.” (tags: US politics)

294 – Err Lingus « Strange Maps Aer Lingus demonstrates the fine grasp of Northeast US geography that we usually associate with Manhattanites. (tags: silly US travel) The Notes of Japanese soldier in USSR Fascinating cartoons drawn by a Japanese POW in the Soviet Union. (tags: art comics history Japan pictures war stories) Off the… Continue reading links for 2008-07-04

The Loom : The Loom Ends. The Loom Lives! One of ScienceBlogs’ best leaves for Discover. Update your RSS readers. (tags: blogs science journalism writing biology) Meeting Program The Nobel laureates in physics get together to talk shop. (tags: physics meetings Nobel science) nanoscale views: What makes an experiment “good” “I think it’s important, particularly… Continue reading links for 2008-07-03

Achieving top grades in science subjects more difficult, proves research “On average, subjects like Physics, Chemistry and Biology at A-level are a whole grade harder than Drama, Sociology or Media Studies, and three-quarters of a grade harder than English, RE or Business Studies.” (tags: academia education science social-science humanities) Physicists create millimeter-sized ‘Bohr atom’ A… Continue reading links for 2008-07-02

What Would Jesus Do (in College)? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs A look at “challenges confronting a subset of religious colleges: Those looking to differentiate themselves from what’s perceived as the prevailing norm – Christian colleges as bastions of social conservatism – without collapsing age-old faith tradi… Continue reading links for 2008-07-01

I create gods all the time – now I think one might exist | Mail Online Terrible, terrible headline for an excellent essay. (tags: books religion literature SF science)