Jonah Lehrer on Problems With SATs, GREs, the NFL Combine and Other Performance Tests | Head Case – WSJ.com “We live in a society obsessed with maximum performance. Think of exams like the SAT and the GRE. Though these tests take only a few hours, they’re supposed to give schools and companies a snapshot of… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-03
Month: April 2011
Biomedicine: The English Literature of the Sciences?
Thursday’s post about the troubles of biomedical scientists drew a response from Mad Mike saying that, no, biomedical science Ph.D.’s really don’t have any career options outside of academia, and pointing to Jessica Palmer’s post on the same subject for corroboration. Jessica writes: This is something I’ve tried to explain many times to nonscientists: most… Continue reading Biomedicine: The English Literature of the Sciences?
Advancing by Subtracting
I’ve got draft versions of all the chapters of the book-in-progress now, which is great. Of course, when you add up all the words in those chapters, it comes to 92,000, when the contract calls for 70,000. Which means I’ve entered the part of the writing process where progress is measured not by how many… Continue reading Advancing by Subtracting
Weather Poll: White Stuff
Another day, another snowfall. Sigh. Thus, a poll: Snow on April 1 is:online survey Snow, even in springtime, is depressingly, boringly, classical, so you may choose one and only one option, not a quantum superposition of multiple answers.
Links for 2011-04-01
How to Get Tenure at Almost Every Other Research University | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine A useful counterpoint to Sean’s post about tenure at top-tier research universities. (tags: academia jobs blogs science physics cosmic-variance) A Lament for Diana Wynne Jones « Bookselling with Granger “One of the pillars of bookselling is to answer this… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-01