I’m in last-minute-revision mode here, made mroe frantic by the fact that SteelyKid developed a fever yesterday, and had to be kept home from day care. I did want to pop in to note that I will be giving the Natural Science and Mathematics Colloquium at St. Mary’s College in Maryland tomorrow, Wednesday the 13th.… Continue reading Hello, Southern Maryland: Talk Wednesday at St. Mary’s College
Links for 2011-04-12
Making Light: *Spoilers* Sucker Punch *Spoilers* “Imagine The Matrix as written by M. Night Shyamalan, casting no one you’ve ever heard of, and shot as soft-core porn. That’s Sucker Punch.” (tags: movies culture review blogs making-light) WTF: Journal publishes ESP B-u-n-k | “The article ends, as these things often do, with a discussion section. This… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-12
Links for 2011-04-11
Cocktail Party Physics: so you want to be a science consultant Step Zero: Live in Los Angeles. (tags: science education outreach media television movies blogs cocktail-party books communication)
The Tale of Little Red Robin Hood
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl from a family of modest means, who received a spiffy new jacket as a gift. It was bright red, and had a big warm hood that she could pull up over her head when she didn’t feel like combing her hair. She was so pleased… Continue reading The Tale of Little Red Robin Hood
Links for 2011-04-10
“Tie this to your lanyard, Billy Collins” “My brother Aryaman (the talented one) writes: “A colleague of mine who is interested in pursuing science education after her PhD was directed to a collection of (I think apocryphal) answers to science questions from 5th and 6th graders in Japan. I noticed many of them were almost… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-10
Hugo Humiliation
Over in LiveJournal land, nwhyte just finished reading all the Hugo-winning novels, and provides a list of them with links to reviews or at least short comments. He also gives a summary list of his take on the best and worst books of the lot. The obvious thing to do with such a list, particularly… Continue reading Hugo Humiliation
Links for 2011-04-09
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Remedial Levels “[T]he CCRC found that the single strongest predictor of student success that’s actually under the college’s control — so I’m ignoring gender and income of student, since we take all comers — is length of sequence. The shorter the sequence, the better they do. The worst thing… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-09
Great Moments in Campus Visits
It’s college admissions season, which means a steady influx of high-school seniors thinking about coming here next year, making campus visits. Most of these students sit in on at least one class, to get an idea of what it’s like. Which occasionally leads to odd things, but nothing stranger than what just happened: a prospective… Continue reading Great Moments in Campus Visits
Links for 2011-04-08
How Much is a Dragon Worth? – Michael Noer – Backslash – Forbes “To silence the skepticism and to give fans of the list some idea of just how deep the rabbit hole goes, I’ve decided to flash a little bit of imaginary ankle and walk through a typical Fictional 15 investigation, in this case… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-08
Thursday Action Toddler Blogging 040711
A shot from this morning, before SteelyKid had gotten dressed: Why is she balanced precariously on the arm of that chair, you ask? So she could do this, of course: