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NameVoyager Amaztype Montage-a-Google... - Curriculum by Lawsuit
Via Brian Leiter, the thick wedge of the "Academic Bill of Rights": While promoting the bill Tuesday, Baxley said a university education should be more than “one biased view by the professor, who as a dictator controls the classroom,” as... - Book Reviews
Does Gödel Matter? by Jordan Ellenberg (reviewing Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel by Rebecca Goldstein) The reticent and relentlessly abstract logician Kurt Gödel might seem an unlikely candidate for popular appreciation. But that's what Rebecca Goldstein aims... - Bwahahahahaha
"If the system were fair," says Larry Mumper, sponsor of the Ohio bill, "Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would be tenured professors somewhere."(via applecidercheesefudge)... - Department Site Overhaul
I am working with two other grad students (Seth and Kevin) to make the philosophy department website more useful and stylish. So far we have a decent mock-up. The color scheme and icon will change soon, but the rest is... - More Movies
Finding Neverland **** Too precious by half, but good nonetheless. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow * Ack... shizer! Freaks & Geeks: Disc 1, 2000 ***** Pitch-perfect high school melodrama, full of humor and pathos.... - Review of Right Reason
Right Reason emerged from the tumult of The Conservative Philosopher (TCP), where K. Burgess Jackson disabled comments and alienated some of its members. In contrast to TCP, Right Reason has admirably aspired to give “conservative principles a careful, powerful, philosophical... - Recently Watched Movies
I Heart Huckabees, 2004 *** Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, 2004 **** Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!: Season 1: Disc 1, 2003 **** The Station Agent, 2003 ***** The Office: Series 2, 2002 ***** Lenny, 1974 ***** Maria Full of... - Recent (Non-Academic) Reads
In roughly reverse-chronological order: (Currently Reading) The Character of Physical Law, Richard Feynman ***** (Currently Reading) Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics, Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman **** (Re-read) Transmetropolitan: Lust... - Learning, Simplicity, Truth, and Misinformation
My thesis advisor has just placed his most recent work online. Learning, Simplicity, Truth, and Misinformation, Kevin Kelly This manuscript comes closest to my current thinking about method and draws some systematic contrasts between learning theory and more standard approaches... - Before and After
Even rockers were once kids. As a public service announcement, an officer has collected mug shots of methemphetamine users: The faces of meth. Comparisons of recent photos to those from about 100 years ago: Shrinking glaciers... - Lovely Finds
A few of these have been around for a while, but they deserve some airing. As featured on Nova's Science NOW: Arthur Ganson and his enchanting machines. Mixing Memory posts on neuroaesthetic in The Cognitive Science of Art Principles... - Gingrich: Dissent = Dismissal
Newt Gingrich on academic freedom: We ought to say to campuses, it’s over…We should say to state legislatures, why are you making us pay for this? Boards of regents are artificial constructs of state law. Tenure is an artificial social... - Keep Your Mind Open...
but not so open that your brain falls out. Pseudoscience on Slashdot: "Red Nova news has an interesting article about a random number generating black box that may be able to see into the future. From the article: "according to... - A Conversation With a Christian
One reason that I don't believe that 'my God' is insecure is because we have the ability to choose what to do with our lives. If God were to force us to worship and glorify him, then I might...
