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Two Cultures:

Interdisciplinarity

Timothy Burke has some interesting thoughts about the College of the Atlantic, which represents a real effort to build interdisciplinarity on an institutional level. "Interdisciplinary" is the buzzword of the moment in large swathes of academia, and the College of...

Two Cultures and Expertise

Some of the people who are quickest to explode with indignation when somebody from outside the sciences says something stupid about science are also among the quickest to denigrate or discard research in the social sciences or humanities.

Two Cultures Divided by Scheduling

Why scholars from the sciecnes and humanities take such different approaches to the production of meeting programs.

Labs vs. "Real" Courses

What I hope will be the dumbest thing I read today.

Academic Links Dump

Two quick links from yesterday's Inside Higher Ed that a browser crash kept me from posting yesterday: 1) A story on a professor at Idaho who asks students to sign a waiver acknowledging that they may be offended by some...

Two Cultures At Meetings

For some reason, I was forwarded a link to an old article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about how to give a scholarly lecture. (It's a time-limited email link, so look quickly.) As with roughly 90% of all Chronicle...

Poetic Physics

When it comes to awesome mystery, Ovid's got nothing on Quantum Electro-Dynamics.

How the Other Half Grades

My Quantum Optics class this term is a junior/ senior level elective, one of a set of four or five such classes that we rotate through, offering one or two a year. We require physics majors to take one of...

Two Cultures in Meetings

Prompted in part by Rob Knop's post on meeting with humanists, an observation about the nature of academia attributed to our late Dean of the Faculty, a former Classics professor: The key difference between disciplines in terms of administrative business...

Step One: Change Disciplines

Dr. What Now? has a nice and timely post about helping students prepare for oral presentations, something I'll be doing myself this morning, in preparation for the annual undergraduate research symposium on campus Friday. Of course, being a humanist, what...

Poetry About Physicists

Reading this article reminds me that I forgot to talk about the poetry reading from a few weeks ago. In lieu of a regular colloquium talk one week this term, we co-hosted a poetry reading by George Drew, a local...

Algebra and Storytelling

Thoughts on algebra and the fundamental narrative connectors of medieval literature.

Pith-Helmeted Anthropological Reporting

Scott Eric Kaufman of Acephalous is blogging the MLA. (I'm sure he's not the only one, he's just the only one I'm reading...) As I understand it, the Modern Language Association meeting is pretty much the be-all end-all of humanities...

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