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illuminating science » What should we learn? “should we teach the “standard” methods for doing multiplication and division (the usual multiplication (“carry the 3″ etc) and the usual long division) or are students would be better off learning more “intuitive” methods?” (tags: math education academia science society) Natelson Group: Useful Links Learn solid-state physics with… Continue reading links for 2008-01-28

Senators Scrutinize Well-Endowed Colleges :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education There are too few smutty headlines in academia… (tags: academia economics politics US) Sorting Out Science » Blog Archive » Carnival of Space, Week 38 — The Adventures of Shorty Barlow, Private Eye A hard-boiled blog carnival…… Continue reading links for 2008-01-26

Endowment Spending Rate Drops Slightly :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education “Colleges with endowments larger than $500 million spent on average only 4.4 percent in 2007. For colleges with endowments greater than $500 million but less than $1 billion, that’s the lowest rate since 1999, and for… Continue reading links for 2008-01-25

Downloading by Students Overstated :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education The MPAA inflated numbers for student downloading by a factor of three. Gee, and they seemed so honest… (tags: academia movies computing stupid internet) blogs | The A.V. Club Nathan Rabin’s Year of Flops (tags: blogs movies… Continue reading links for 2008-01-24

In the Fatosphere, Big Is in, or at Least Accepted – New York Times Tune in to the denialism blog for an explosion in 5… 4… 3… (tags: medicine food society blogs) Flagging economy needs science investments The head of Intel blasts Congress over the science funding debacle. (tags: education science economics politics) This Week… Continue reading links for 2008-01-23

Coyotebanjo: Day 03 “In the Trenches” (shout-out Friday edition) The “Friday Shout-Out,” an interesting classroom technique. (via Pedablogue) (tags: academia education society psychology) onipress.com 23-page free preview comic for the upcoming Jumper movie. (tags: books movies SF) Graphene breaks speed record – physicsworld.com “Its high intrinsic mobility… means that graphene is the only material where… Continue reading links for 2008-01-22

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Faculty Exchanges: Notes Toward a Proposal The next great reality show: ProfSwap! Hey, if the writer’s strike keeps up… (tags: academia education experiment) Words Words Words — The Dream Cafe Weblog Steve Brust gets sick of LiveJournal, ans dtarts a group blog. (tags: blogs books SF) Fantastic Japanscapes :::… Continue reading links for 2008-01-20

The Quantum Pontiff : The Contextuality of Quantum Theory in Ten Minutes “Elves, Santa, boxes, and quantum measurements. That’s the Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem: quantum measurements are contextual.” (tags: physics quantum science computing) An Upsetting Outcome :: Inside Higher Ed :: Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education “When the researchers crunched the data, though,… Continue reading links for 2008-01-19

The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: Smith Of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles Of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien (1967, 1949) | The A.V. Club “A friend who’s much smarter than I once theorized that the process of growing up involves going either through a Tolkien phase or a Beat phase, but never both.” (tags: books… Continue reading links for 2008-01-18