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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:

Weekend diversion: Happy Thinksgiving.

Category: Passing thoughts

The younger Free-Ride offspring's soccer team has been playing in a regional tournament this weekend, and we're girding our loins and guarding our shins to go out and play a second day of tournament games. I'm happy that they're playing...

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Death is not an option: optimizing academic performance edition.

Category: Academia

Let's say you're a college student. You have a class meeting today at which a short essay (about 400 words) is due. The essay counts for about 5% of your grade for the course. At that class meeting, your instructor...

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Dismal, yes, but is it science?

Category: Current events

Just what kind of science economics is presumed to be?

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One of the reasons I prefer a whiteboard to a chalkboard.

Category: Personal

Chalk dust thigh: Indeed, this was the state of my pants after I walked partway across campus from my classroom to my office, so the level of chalk dust had decreased from its maximum level when I snapped this picture....

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Random YouTubery video-tainment.

Category: Passing thoughts

It's been a long day, between teaching and attending to committee work, giving a colloquium talk, dealing with an emergency drill, and coming home to make a later-than-planned dinner for the kids (since my better half had to help a...

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An observation about the student papers I'm grading.

Category: Personal

Because, as it happens, I tend to notice patterns in student papers, then end up musing on them rather than, you know, buckling down and just working through the stack of papers that needs grading. In my philosophy of science...

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Snapshots from our weekend.

Category: Passing thoughts

Remember how I mentioned that we had some soccer tournaments this weekend? Well, it looks like we're going to need a bigger shelf....

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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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