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Gender, Debunking, and Scienceblogging: Part III with Martha McCaughey
Posted by Benjamin Cohen on May 7, 2009 Pt. I | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 — Part 3 with Martha McCaughey, discussing her book The Caveman Mystique, follows below. All entries in the author-meets-blogger series can be found here.
Gender Studies, Science Studies, and the Evo-Psych Researchers in Between: Part 2 with Martha McCaughey
Posted by Benjamin Cohen on May 6, 2009 Pt. I | Pt. 2 | Pt. 3 — Part 2 with Martha McCaughey, discussing her book The Caveman Mystique, follows below. All entries in the author-meets-blogger series can be found here.
Locavores go iPhone
Posted by Benjamin Cohen on April 1, 2009 Add this to the list from my prior post: a Locavore app from Enjoymentland, available at the iTunes store. Local agricultural advocates are already using social networking and building virtual marketplaces and identifying market and farm sites nationwide. This feature extends the connection between on-line consumer practices and local food advocacy. Two of my students…
Engineering Design Failure
Posted by Benjamin Cohen on March 20, 2009 Eight choices for the best example of a design flaw.
Technology equals progress: three examples
Posted by Benjamin Cohen on March 2, 2009 I am an ardent critic of the unexamined claim that technology equals progress, straightforwardly, inevitably, universally. (Here are some samples: one, two, three.) So I am pleased to report new findings unearthing examples that don’t fall prey to such critique: 1. Binder clips 2. Luggage with wheels 3. Netflix That is all.