Politics:
Charles Kuffner reports on an "Innocence Summit" in Texas last week, and points to two more reports from Grits for Breakfast that provide more colorful detail. The news story already says most of what needs saying, though: AUSTIN -- Nine...
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Posted on May 12, 2008 10:12 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jake Young points to a Bloggingheads conversation between Dan Drezner and Megan McArdle about, among other things, whether academics are bitter and why. This mostly comes out of a post Megan wrote (link is a leap of faith-- the site...
Posted on May 5, 2008 10:08 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Stewart or Colbert?
Posted on May 2, 2008 10:23 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Mad Biologist is mad at Chris Mooney, but his anger is misplaced.
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Posted on April 30, 2008 10:38 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Randy Olson's movie A Flock of Dodos comes up again and again in the course of arguments about public communication of science, but I had never gotten around to seeing it. I finally put it on the Netflix queue, and...
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Posted on April 30, 2008 8:26 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lawrence Watt-Evans is reposting some old Usenet essays on the subject of class, which regular readers will recognize as a hot-button issues for me. So far, he's up to part four of six. The list: Defining Terms Who I Am...
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Posted on April 28, 2008 7:32 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's absolutely no reason we couldn't launch the ScienceBlogs.com Online Film Festival right now.
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Posted on April 27, 2008 10:33 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Controversy over Clarence Thomas as a commencement speaker makes me vaguely ashamed to be an academic.
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Posted on April 23, 2008 9:45 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As I may have mentioned in the past, we at Chateau Steelypips have benefitted greatly from Yale Law School's loan forgiveness program for graduates taking public service jobs. Since Kate shattered my dreams of a self-funded basement lab by deciding...
Posted on April 23, 2008 7:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mike Huckabee's speech on campus had some wonderful rhetoric about the need for self-governance, but was ultimately sort of frustrating both because of the speech and because of the audience.
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Posted on April 15, 2008 9:10 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee will be speaking at Union tonight. This has provoked the predictable huffy reaction from the usual suspects, but I expect it will be an interesting event, and certainly better than David Horowitz or Pat Buchanan,...
Posted on April 14, 2008 9:41 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thoughts on the dynamic weighting of "core values."
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Posted on April 11, 2008 8:10 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Inside Higher Ed notes in passing that several NCAA Presidents are complaining about alcohol advertising during the NCAA Tournament. The source for this is a study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest: According to CSPI's analysis of...
Posted on April 10, 2008 6:56 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Times reporter and Union Alum speaks on campus about Guantanamo Bay, the "War on Terror" and the media in general.
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Posted on April 9, 2008 9:51 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What's the cost of not framing? Me, and people like me.
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Posted on April 4, 2008 9:17 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Perimeter Institute will be hosting a workshop in September on "Science in the 21st Century": Times are changing. In the earlier days, we used to go to the library, today we search and archive our papers online. We have...
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Posted on April 4, 2008 8:18 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
