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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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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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:11 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Passing thoughts
Some of those questions bring people to this blog.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:10 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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?...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 9:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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,...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:42 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:28 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:35 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:05 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kids and science
Actually, it might be a philosophical question.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:06 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 7:40 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:41 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
