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"This is one of the things I love most about blogs: Barack Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court; I, a non-lawyer, wonder what her record is like, and find the summaries in newspapers much too shallow and focussed on the politics of her appointment rather than her record; but voila! SCOTUSBlog has anticipated my every whim by running a series summarizing a whole lot of her decisions."
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"David Foster Wallace wrote about lots of subjects with lots of strategies, all of them vehement. He could be vehemently searching, digressive, playful, pointed, self-conscious, or sad. He could be vehemently pedantic, moralistic, self-abnegating, or grand. His emphasis often changed among these modes, but the driving force was always there--to the extent that tangling with his work can be exhausting, for all the energy it extends to the reader and all the energy it expects back in kind. Chief among the conflicts presented to the Wallace newbie is the question of whether Wallace was better as a journalist or as a fiction writer. He did important work in both roles, but which, in the end, should prevail?"
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A good explanation of the services provided by professional editors that "Web 2.0" can't easily reproduce.
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""For faculty who engage in funded research, there is no economic mystery: research is the product being sold and it makes sense to emphasize it. However, the rewards apply to unfunded research also," they write, in an analysis released by the National Bureau of Economic Research. "Moreover, the phenomenon of faculty rewards for research is prevalent and growing in the humanities, law schools, and other disciplines with little or no funded research -- a trend that has persisted for decades, across schools and across geographical boundaries. ""
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"The Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are today, Thursday, 28 May, launching a new report, 'Particle physics - it matters' to introduce a wider audience to the economic and societal benefits of particle physics research."
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That "Particle Physics" article is a hoot. Referring to the LHC as a "paradigm shifting experiment" is about the most egregious misuse of Kuhn's terminology I've ever seen. If anything, the LHC is the biggest "mopping up", paradigm-CONFIRMING machine ever built!! In fact, it was the example I used this semester when talking about Kuhn's idea that "normal science" is an activity designed explicitly NOT to discover unexpected things.
Since when did the study of Black Holes become particle physics?