A couple of links about things that have turned up in my email recently:
-- As a follow-on to yesterday's post about grad school, I got an email a little while ago about Graduate Junction, a social networking/ career building site aimed at graduate students. I'm coming up on ten years of being out of their demographic, but it looks kind of cool. If you're a grad student, you might check it out.
-- The Union of Concerned Scientists is running a cartoon contest for the best editorial cartoon about the politicization of science. They've selected a dozen finalists, and now want your vote as to which is the Best. They're all pretty darn good-- go check them out, and cast a vote.
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Let's see: delete the ones with male only scientists (ie. all the ones with people) and the ones that are too U.S. centric. Hmmm. That doesn't leave too many options.
Let's see: delete the ones with male only scientists (ie. all the ones with people) and the ones that are too U.S. centric. Hmmm. That doesn't leave too many options.
The Union of Concerned Scientists is a US organization, and the contest was started in response to the Bush administration's interference in the research of US government scientists.
I'm not sure I see what "too US centric" means in this context.
Actually I was suprised at how alike the cartoons seemed this year- I remember more variety in past years.
So I wasn't disappointed by them being "too US centric" but definitely by them being "too homogenous".
Well, I think that even given the U.S. context, the winner should be universally funny.