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8 New Jobs People Will Have In 2025
New technology will eradicate some jobs, change others, and create whole new categories of employment. Innovation causes a churn in the job market, and this time around the churn is particularly large–from cheap sensors (creating “an Internet of things“) to … Continue reading
Cantor and Smith on the NSF
Two prominent republicans have taken NSF to task, in the pages of USA Today. Overall, it’s a rather toothless piece:
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TableTalk. A call for submissions
For those this may engage: A fellow student from Reed College and I would like to introduce you to a new journal that will be coming out February 2014. Welcome to TableTalk. TableTalk will be a space that will bring … Continue reading
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ScienceShot: Lucy’s Svelte Look | Science/AAAS | News
New makeover for our most ancient known ancestor. ScienceShot: Lucy’s Svelte Look | Science/AAAS | News.
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Interdisciplinarity and Neoliberalism
Is interdisciplinarity a neoliberal plot? Are interdisciplinarians simply neoliberal tools? There’s a danger of that happening (for that matter, there are instances that we can point to that qualify already). By bypassing disciplinary standards for quality, or even acceptable theoretical … Continue reading
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Paying Obeisance to the Tribe
One might imagine that thinking about inter- and transdisciplinarity would require a wide acquaintance with the world, e.g., one part philosophy, another policy studies; some historical perspective, some understanding of how science works; some educational theory and a smattering of … Continue reading
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The Value of Disinterestedness
Disinterestedness as an ideology within the natural sciences — described as ‘curiosity-based research’ — serves to protect the natural scientists from the social consequences of his discoveries. Disinterestedness as an ideology in the social sciences seeks to inoculate the social … Continue reading
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Proceduralism and the Absence of Courage
From Rawls: “Pure procedural justice obtains when there is no independent criterion for the right result: instead there is a correct or fair procedure such that the outcome is likewise correct or fair, whatever it is, provided that the procedure … Continue reading
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IITs of India
An interesting read: on the leading universities of India.
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Floating in a most peculiar way — The Economist explains: How does copyright work in space? | The Economist
Even if you don’t go read this article — which you should do — you have to watch the video. The Economist explains: How does copyright work in space? | The Economist. This is transdisciplinarity at it most fun, if … Continue reading
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Before MOOCs, ‘Colleges of the Air’ – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Fascinating. Before MOOCs, ‘Colleges of the Air’ – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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8 steps to making your research punch above its weight | Impact of Social Sciences
Some good ideas here. Interesting to compare with our description of field philosophy. 8 steps to making your research punch above its weight | Impact of Social Sciences.
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An embedded culture of research impact will not emerge unless universities think beyond the REF | Impact of Social Sciences
An embedded culture of research impact will not emerge unless universities think beyond the REF | Impact of Social Sciences.
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The University Is in Real Trouble, Folks
This is news to no one who’s been paying attention, of course. But this morning I read two articles that highlight some of the difficulties universities are facing today. The first was from Al Jazeera, which seems to be on … Continue reading
Congratulations to Keith Brown!
CSID’s Progam Manager, Keith Brown, was a recipient of the UNT Staff Contribution Award! Keith was nominated by Shaun Treat, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at UNT, for his role in organizing the UNT Comics Studies Conference. Congratulations to Keith … Continue reading
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Mothers of Jews who like bacon: Where Facebook meets identity politics
Tom Scott did something extraordinary last week: he typed in searches on Facebook’s new Graph Search feature and posted images of the results on his tumblr, called ActualFacebookGraphSearches. … which sounds quite un-extraordinary. Except that Scott – something of an … Continue reading
Online education at NAU
This is a bit dated now–July, 2012–but I just ran across a striking step in the development of online education at NAU
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the future locus of knowledge production
Nota bene: Age 25 and Over (2011)[2] Education Percentage in the US High school graduate 87.58% Some college 56.86% Associate’s and/or Bachelor’s degree 39.89% Bachelor’s degree 30.44% Master’s degree 7.95% Doctorate or professional degree 3.00% -what conclusion can we draw … Continue reading
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‘Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0′ hits shelves just in time for Halloween
Steve Fuller’s latest book, Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0, hits shelves just in time for Halloween. I find the timing of the book’s release interesting, since it introduces the most frightening philosophic character since Nietzsche’s Übermensch — the ‘moral … Continue reading
Denton Drilling: Draft ordinance needs overhaul
Last night, about forty dedicated citizens gathered to review the draft gas drilling ordinance and generate ideas for how to improve it. There was one clear take home message: The draft ordinance is inadequate. It gets an F. We need … Continue reading
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A simple plan for open access?
So, I worked hard, wrote a paper, and submitted it for publication in a special issue of a prominent journal in the philosophy of science. The paper went through peer review and two rounds of editorial comments, which I responded … Continue reading
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Knowledge Useful?
Interdisciplinarity is motivated by the 20th century failure of disciplinary knowledge to be relevant. But rather than questioning whether knowledge itself is relevant to our problems, rather than, say, being a matter of will (cf. Nicomachean Ethics Book 7, on … Continue reading
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