{"id":5122,"date":"2010-10-19T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/19\/links-for-2010-10-19\/"},"modified":"2010-10-19T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T08:11:07","slug":"links-for-2010-10-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/19\/links-for-2010-10-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-10-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/tossing-bottles.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: Tossing Bottles<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">One of the staples of 80&#8217;s teen movies was the moment when the screwup hero realized that he had imbibed (or allowed others to imbibe at a forbidden party) much of what was in the parents&#8217; liquor cabinet &#8212; these houses always had well-stocked liquor cabinets &#8212; and didn&#8217;t want to get caught. Invariably, he&#8217;d add water to the various bottles to make the cabinet look, at first glance, undisturbed. Tossing bottles would have given the game away.<\/p>\n<p>SUNY Albany is tossing bottles, and catching holy hell for it. Apparently, it&#8217;s suspending admission to programs in French, Italian, Russian, and classics. Stanley Fish has opined that this marks the official collapse of the humanities.<\/p>\n<p>As regular readers know, I stand in awe of Stanley Fish&#8217;s ability to maintain a prominent and successful career without ever, even by accident, getting anything right. It&#8217;s an astonishing record, really. He&#8217;s the David Hasselhoff of academia; nobody can really explain why he&#8217;s still there, yet he&#8217;s still there.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/jobs\">jobs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/Xplore\/guesthome.jsp?reload=true\">IEEE Xplore &#8211; Home<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;IEEE congratulates Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, now both at the University of Manchester, who were jointly awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for &#8220;groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>To celebrate their brilliant achievement, IEEE Xplore will provide&nbsp;open access to all of their articles published in IEEE journals, conferences and AIP journals. This complimentary access will remain in effect until January 1, 2011. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/condensed-matter\">condensed-matter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/graphene\">graphene<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/materials\">materials<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/Nobel\">Nobel<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/awards\">awards<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/articles\">articles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/open-access\">open-access<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevirtuosi.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/your-week-in-seminars-intro-edition.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheVirtuosi+%28The+Virtuosi%29\">The Virtuosi: Your Week in Seminars Intro Edition<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll try to relate what I got out of each talk, with more words than equations and with no figures. I&#8217;ll aim for a general audience level but I think I&#8217;m likely to end up at a physics undergrad or a popular-science-savvy level, as technical terms are bound to be thrown about. If there&#8217;s one you don&#8217;t know, feel free to ask over in the comments or take this as an opportunity to delve into Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also provide two handy metrics to the quality of the talk, my Interest Level, defined as the amount of time before I start playing with my phone, and my Comprehension level, defined as the amount of time where I was still following the speaker.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/virtusoi\">virtusoi<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/talks\">talks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/theory\">theory<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/particles\">particles<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confessions of a Community College Dean: Tossing Bottles One of the staples of 80&#8217;s teen movies was the moment when the screwup hero realized that he had imbibed (or allowed others to imbibe at a forbidden party) much of what was in the parents&#8217; liquor cabinet &#8212; these houses always had well-stocked liquor cabinets &#8212;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/19\/links-for-2010-10-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-10-19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}