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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.

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Passing thoughts:

Continuing internet education.

Category: Blogospheric science

Yo dawg! This is a soccer tournament weekend for the Free-Rides. (First game: 8:00 AM. Time of departure from Casa Free-Ride: 6:30 AM. Zombification complete!) At the moment, the younger offspring and I are chilling before the younger offspring's team's...

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People with search engines have questions.

Category: Passing thoughts

Some of those questions bring people to this blog.

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A bit peckish.

Category: Passing thoughts

Is it too soon to dip into that bowl of "fun-size" candy bars while we wait for it to get dark?...

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Signs of the times.

Category: Academia

The times in question being, in this case, the last days of October. Once upon a Tuesday morning, while I wandered, cold and yawning, Up the grimy stair steps winding skyward toward my office door, On the wall's bile-greenish surface,...

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'I'm not even supposed to be here today!'

Category: Academia

Since being tenured, I've tried to shift to a pattern of only coming in to campus three days a week, working from home on Mondays and Wednesdays (and giving the earth a little break by not doing my freeway commute...

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My thoughts on an event probably not aimed at me.

Category: Passing thoughts

From my friend Vance, on Facebook, a link that announces an option for your Hallowe'en entertainment: Halloween Book Burning
 Burning Perversions of God's Word 
October 31, 2009...

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Why I'm not grading papers tonight.

Category: Passing thoughts

After my last class today, I participated in a Future Faculty Seminar at Stanford. I was on a panel about negotiating faculty jobs, dealing with the two-body problem while on the academic job market, balancing work and life once you...

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The sprogs raise an important scientific question.

Category: Kids and science

Actually, it might be a philosophical question.

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The best laid plans.

Category: Academia

Imagine you are looking ahead to a furlough day and taking seriously the piece of the agreement that specifies that you won't actually do any work on that furlough day. To prevent yourself from backsliding by doing work to pass...

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A concise synopsis of a comment thread exchange.

Category: Diversity in science

Yesterday Dr. Isis put up a post that seems to have bugged many of the people who subsequently posted comments on it. I have no idea whether the commenters on the post intended to convey it, but here's what's coming...

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