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slacktivist: Anti-Missourian best-sellers "When some polarizing figure publishes a book, the sales of that book do provide one useful way of gauging the popularity of that figure or that point of view.[...] But say some less polarizing figure also publishes a book taking the opposite view and it…
The Virtuosi: Cell Phone Brain Damage: Part Deux "I thought I'd take another look at cell phone damage, coming at it from a different direction than my colleague. Mostly I just want to consider the energy of the radiation that cell phones produce, and compare that with the other relevant energy…
How Josef Oehmen's advice on Fukushima went viral - opinion - 21 March 2011 - New Scientist "So who exactly is Josef Oehmen and why did he write about the nuclear accidents in Japan? Oehmen agreed to tell New Scientist his side of the story - and it suggests that a minimum of research by the…
Confessions of a Community College Dean: Teaching Governance "As an administrator, I'm constantly struck by the unacknowledged contradiction among many faculty between "consult us in all things" and "back off and leave us alone." It's not that I don't understand the impulse; depending on local…