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- Benjamin Cohen teaches at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009). His interest is in those places where science, art, and environmental studies come together.

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January 23, 2008

International Philosophers: Greece v. Germany

Category: Video links (archive.org samples, for example; Youtube.com; others...)

Wilkins had a post that linked to a Monty Python sketch. So why not watch (or re-watch, if that be your angle) another sketch, pasted below for your viewing ease? Always good fun....

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I move to have the sanctity of the Oscar Awards ceremony placed within the Millennium Development Goals.

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

Well, maybe not. It's just that... is it me, or is this Oscar (will it happen will it not?) thing everywhere in the news these days? There's such media saturation that it brought to mind the following thought I...

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January 22, 2008

Certainty and the Obvious: What It Takes to Bring in the Fabled "Context"

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building

Saying something's "obvious" indicates the absence of a logical argument, asserting truth by speaking loudly.

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January 21, 2008

The Pathetic Fallacy

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building

Continuing to ponder knowledge, evidence, Errol Morris, and The Crimea's Sebastopol of 1855

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January 18, 2008

Synthetica: A New Continent of Plastics

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

Where Rayon is a plastic island off the Cellulose coast, with a glittering night life.

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January 17, 2008

Foucault on Curiosity

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

A dream for a new age of curiosity: we have the technical means for it; the desire is there; the things to be known are infinite...

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Since we'll be doing a bit of math today in class (plus this video kind of makes me think of how climate change science is debated)

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building

In my hunt for things to incorporate in a lecture later today, I came across this great video (Ma and Pa Kettle) on the mathematics divide. In the end, I won't actually be using it, but hey, I wonder if...

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O.K. so who else has the "Wii Shoulder" problem?

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

Today at the SCQ, we've put up a journal club entry (i.e. full citation details and you can also get the pdf of the first page of the article at that link). It's kind of an obvious one, which simply...

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January 15, 2008

Google trending the webosphere - comparison of volume of "Paris Hilton" vs "Britney Spears" vs "Climate Change" searches.

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

Going from a previous comment in my brainspace post earlier this week... This is kind of sad really. Here is what it looks like. The axes imply relative number of searches since it doesn't seem like you get hard numbers...

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January 14, 2008

Trained Judgment and the Scientific Audience

Category: The STS Compages

Consumers and producers of scientific knowledge unite! Maybe? A little? Could we?

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