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  • Joined-to or Joined-with the Education Complex?

    An update of a post I made two years ago before I decided to go all in and get my MA and PhD: Lunch time and my thoughts turn to all of my friends who are independent scholars. Many of… Continue reading

    Joined-to or Joined-with the Education Complex?

  • Value for Money | Philosophy Impact

    My colleague Steve Fuller contributes a draft of his latest article to the Philosophy Impact blog. In this article , I write as the UK partner of an exploratory project funded by the US National Science Foundation to critically evaluate current… Continue reading

  • Architects of South American science

    Some of the region’s top scientists share thoughts on the research landscape in South America. Regional and cross-continental networks strengthen science in South America. They encourage young scientists to return home, motivate governments to invest in their own science, and… Continue reading

    Architects of South American science

  • The necessity of self-promotion

    Women may fail to win chairs because they do not cite themselves enough. One of academia’s deficiencies is that, though its lecture halls and graduate schools are replete with women, its higher echelons are not. Often, this is seen as… Continue reading

    The necessity of self-promotion

  • [Harper’s Index] | August 2013

      …Net amount contributed to Medicare by immigrants between 2002 and 2009 : $115,000,000,000 Net amount drawn out by native-born citizens over the same period : $28,000,000,000 Average amount a Water Valley, Mississippi, hospital bills Medicare for treating pneumonia with no complications : $4,552 Average amount… Continue reading

    [Harper’s Index] | August 2013

  • Babich: Van Gogh’s Museum and the Temple at Bassae

    A colleague at Fordham University, Babette Babich, who I highly respect, has been updating her articles at academia.edu. Among these is the article linked below. As I have been posting a lot of my favorite paintings as well as some… Continue reading

    Babich: Van Gogh’s Museum and the Temple at Bassae

  • Art and the animal kingdom: Of mice and Manet | The Economist

      THE humble mouse is a doughty workhorse of science. Every day, in laboratories around the world, the little critters are subjected to all manner of carefully controlled insults, from electric shocks to the induction of cancer (see article), all… Continue reading

  • [Harper’s Index] | July 2013

    This months grab bag of statistics from the always wonderful Harpers Magazine:   …Portion of university teaching positions that are filled by graduate students or adjunct faculty : 3/4   Percentage of college professors teaching online courses who do not believe students… Continue reading

    [Harper’s Index] | July 2013

  • Malcolm Gladwell: Albert O. Hirschman and the Power of Failure : The New Yorker

    We may be dealing here with a general principle of action… Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would… Continue reading

  • Precautionary – Proactionary

    My colleagues J. Britt Holbrook and Adam Briggle have encouraged and helped to inaugurate a preprint service at the Review and Reply Collective for the journal Social Epistemiology. The first preprint to appear is their new collaborative piece which “explores… Continue reading

    Precautionary – Proactionary

  • Welcoming a Friend to WordPress

    My good colleague and friend J. Britt Holbrook has started up his new blog. I hope everyone will take a peek and give him some follows as well as some thoughtful feedback/commentary. While I have made my blog more of… Continue reading

    Welcoming a Friend to WordPress

  • Thinking without Professional Recognition

    I work in and around higher education in the United States, but I am not a professor. I sometimes say that I am in the academy but not necessarily of the academy. This does not imply, however, that I refuse… Continue reading

    Thinking without Professional Recognition

  • MOOCmania | DMLcentral

    This is connected learning: the connection between ideas and the materialization of things, between people collaborating to learn and do and make things together, between mind and machine, curiosity and capacity, anywhere and anytime learning and effecting, between the world… Continue reading

  • What is Interdisciplinary Communication?

    How can we make sense of different perspectives on the same subject? How does what I learn about, say, environmental problems in my science class relate to what I learn about them in my philosophy class? Can professors from different… Continue reading

  • Howard Gardner: Digital Technology and A Well-Rounded Education | DMLcentral

    As digital technologies become daily staples in both our personal and professional lives, there’s been much discussion among educators and community leaders as to whether these devices and innovations could in some way be accountable for shifts in the ethical… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20130120

    In harmony? No need for sages. In discord? Needing sages. Heed their answers & not the question? Needing scholars. Adopt scholarship? Tyranny of authority. Source: asianart.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

  • How reading flip-flops from digital to physical | Books | The Observer

    Robin Sloan, author of Fish, the acclaimed iPhone essay featured here a few months ago, used the term “flip-flop” to define an increasingly common process by which a work of art moves between different formats, and specifically between the physical… Continue reading

  • MOOCs as capital-biased technological change

    Last week my Twitter feed briefly turned into a kind of massively open online course about MOOCs, in response to this thoughtful critique by Aaron Bady of an earlier post by Clay Shirky advancing an optimistic view of the role that… Continue reading