A while back, at dinner, I made my usual complaint that Slacktivist doesn’t get enough attention. Kate expressed some doubts, because he certainly seems to have a large number of readers and commenters. The problem is, it’s not read by the people who really need to be reading it, and today provides an excellent example.… Continue reading Fred Clark Explains It All
Month: September 2008
Homecoming Baby Blogging 091308
Well, I’m back… I was away for SteelyKid’s 5-week birthday, but Kate was good enough to get the bison picture for the week. I got in late last night, and only got a bleary half-hour of baby-calming in at 2:30am, but even that was enough to reconfirm that she’s the cutest baby in the universe.… Continue reading Homecoming Baby Blogging 091308
links for 2008-09-13
‘Race and Class Matters at an Elite College’ :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs "Elizabeth Aries explores the insights she gained by studying four groups of students at Amherst College: affluent white students, affluent black students, white students without a lot of money and black students without a… Continue reading links for 2008-09-13
Asking the Big Questions
The Science in the 21st Century meeting is being held at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, which is in a really nice building in the middle of Waterloo. It’s a building that was quite clearly designed with physicists in mind, as there are numerous little common spaces where people can sit around and argue,… Continue reading Asking the Big Questions
links for 2008-09-12
Fafblog! the whole world’s only source for Fafblog. "As a Jesus-fearing moose-hunting hockey-mom mother of five who hunts moose for Jesus, Sarah Palin is kin to the wild outdoors and appreciates its bountiful splendor as she is gunning it down from her airplane. " (tags: politics blogs silly US) Woot : 10 Things We’re Looking… Continue reading links for 2008-09-12
September 11, 2008
links for 2008-09-11
Pure Pedantry : PhD Complete Rates "As opposed to completion gaps, I am much more concerned with the fact that about a third of students are not finishing their PhDs. Why is that?" (tags: academia science education gender race social-science) Learning Curves: You Will Be So Screwed When We Get to Max-Min "My life would… Continue reading links for 2008-09-11
On-The-Road Baby Blogging
I’m having a great time at this week’s conference, but I still find myself missing SteelyKid. Which is kind of amazing, really, as she’s only been around for five weeks, and she’s mostly just slept, cried, eaten, and soiled an astonishing number of diapers. And yet, how can I not miss this: Really, if babies… Continue reading On-The-Road Baby Blogging
Quantum Physics for Dogs Preview
We’re out for a walk, when the dog spots a squirrel up ahead and takes off in pursuit. The squirrel flees into a yard and dodges around a small ornamental maple. Emmy doesn’t alter her course in the slightest, and just before she slams into the tree, I pull her up short. “What’d you do… Continue reading Quantum Physics for Dogs Preview
links for 2008-09-10
Shaping Single Photons | Physical Review Focus "Physicists have been manipulating single photons for several years, but now a team has modulated the time profile of a photon. Using the same optical equipment that fashions ordinary light pulses, the team molded single photons into arbitrary shapes, such as a pair of square pulses, as they… Continue reading links for 2008-09-10