Lawrence Watt-Evans is reposting some old Usenet essays on the subject of class, which regular readers will recognize as a hot-button issues for me. So far, he’s up to part four of six. The list: Defining Terms Who I Am Attitudes & Money On the Job It’s excellent stuff. A sample, from Part 4: Work… Continue reading The Class Project
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Crooked Timber » » Maybe Baby In which Maria makes a dubious choice of date movies. Then again, the first movie Kate and I went to was “Hrad Rain,” so who am I to judge? (tags: movies nostalgia blogs) Physics and Physicists: Physics In Action at Theme Parks On student trips to learn “Like how… Continue reading links for 2008-04-28
Truth in Error Messages
From the tablet today: Yes, oh, yes it was…
A Pro-Science Film Festival: Why Not?
Over at Shifting Baselines, Randy Olson posts a comment suggesting how to combat anti-science movies like Expelled: You want to know how to start — why doesn’t somebody run a film festival for pro-evolution films? THAT is how you reach out to tap into new voices, new blood, new perspectives. THAT is what is desperately… Continue reading A Pro-Science Film Festival: Why Not?
Science-and-Religion Links Dump
The big science-and-religion issue of the week has been Expelled, which The AV Club gave an F, writing: Perhaps what Bruce Chapman of ID advocacy group The Discovery Institute says about Darwinists applies best to Expelled: “People who don’t have an argument are reduced to throwing sand in your eyes.” If only this movie could… Continue reading Science-and-Religion Links Dump
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Seed: “So” A look at the most common verbal tic of scientists. (tags: science language academia education)
Beer is Not Uncultured
Every Friday (more or less) there’s a “Faculty Social Hour” on campus. They have cheese and crackers, a fairly random assortment of beer, and a couple of bottles of wine, and various faculty come by to wind down a bit at the end of the week. It’s a chance to socialize a little with people… Continue reading Beer is Not Uncultured
What a Drag
I went for a bike ride this morning, the first real bike ride of the year (I’ve biked to and from work a couple of times, but this was the first real ride just for the sake of riding). There was some pissy drizzle at the start, but by the time I got on the… Continue reading What a Drag
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Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » What’s Wrong With “Social Justice”? “If you really mean it, however, you have to seriously leave room for, even encourage, someone to answer the question, “Should we pursue social justice or be socially responsible” by saying, “No”.” (tags: academia education society culture ethics politics) Dynamics of Cats : string… Continue reading links for 2008-04-26
Notes Toward “Science in the 21st Century”
The organizers of the Science in the 21st Century conference at the Perimeter Institute have started to collect talk abstracts for the meeting. Actually, they started a couple of weeks ago, but I’m a Bad Person and haven’t gotten around to writing anything for them yet. It doesn’t help that this sort of thing is… Continue reading Notes Toward “Science in the 21st Century”