-
Recent Posts
- Team unearths what may be secret weapon against antibiotic resistance
- Hazing: How to hide in nearly plain sight | Student Science
- 3quarksdaily: Philosophy is a Bunch of Empty Ideas: Interview with Peter Unger
- Thirst for water moves and shakes California | Student Science
- Digital displays get flexible | Student Science
Recent Comments
- Jeff Ollerton on 56 Indicators of Impact
- Jodie on 56 Indicators of Impact
- Brigitte on From Peer Review to the Wisdom of Crowds? Open Access & Peer Review | History Workshop
- Adam on Scenes from another academic conference
- Altmetrics: achieving and measuring success in communicating research in the digital age | Hazel Hall on 56 Indicators of Impact
Archives
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
Categories
- Accountability
- Basic News
- Broader Impacts
- Calls for papers
- Climate Change
- Conferences Upcoming
- Convergence
- Creative & Visual Science
- CSID Publications
- Degrowth Economics
- Economics & STEM Research
- Environmental policy
- Field Philosophy
- Future of the University
- Gas Fracking
- Globalization
- Graduate Studies
- Innovation
- institutionalizing interdisciplinarity
- Interdisciplinarity
- Libraries
- Metrics
- Multidisciplinarity
- NASA
- New Books
- New Lexicon
- NIH
- NOAA
- NSF
- Occupy Wall Street
- Open Access
- Peer Review
- Philosophy & Politics
- Public Pedagogy
- Public Philosophizing
- Science and technology ramifications
- STEM Policy
- Sustainability, Risk Management, & Long-Term Security
- TechnoScience & Technoscientism
- Transdisciplinarity
- Transformative Research
- Uncategorized
- US Science Agencies
Meta
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Professor Kevin Anderson – Climate Change: Going Beyond Dangerous
Professor Kevin Anderson – Climate Change: Going Beyond Dangerous –welcome to the Apocalypse.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Neopythagorean Technoscience Mythos
Our cyberpunk STEM folks certainly do not appear to be losing their very deep steampunk roots. The Demiurge of Plato that became the Watchmaker of Galileo is now the MetaSteveJobs of the Cosmos… wow, those technoscientists really know how to … Continue reading
Driving Students into the Arms of For-Profit Schools
But despite her efforts to complete the coursework in the ensuing four years, Nelson is still not a nurse. California’s budget cuts have forced the state’s community college system to scale back the availability of crucial science classes. Nelson found … Continue reading
The Useless PhD?
Thanks to Senior Fellow @ProfSteveFuller for tweeting this article: ON THE evening before All Saints’ Day in 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg. In those days a thesis was simply a position … Continue reading
“The Philosophy Of Food” – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast
“The Philosophy Of Food” – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril – The Washington Post
UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril – The Washington Post.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Four Possible Futures
An intriguing consideration tweeted by my new Twitterverse colleague Rachel Armstrong (@livingarchitect). “Insofar as some human labor is still required in production in our imagined communist future, it could take the form of small collectives rather than capitalist or state … Continue reading
M.I.T. Expands Free Online Courses
While students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pay thousands of dollars for courses, the university will announce a new program on Monday allowing anyone anywhere to take M.I.T. courses online free of charge — and for the first time earn … Continue reading
Posted in Future of the University, Open Access
Leave a comment
Unprecedented Chinese Uprisings
China is no stranger to popular uprisings, but current protests in Guangdong province are unlike any in recent memory. Activists in the village of Wukan have been fighting the corrupt seizure of land for commercial development for years, but when … Continue reading
Doomsday or Resumes-day?
National Geopgraphics takes a look at debunking the Maya Code as doom & gloom for the world… It’s remotely possible the world will end in December 2012. But don’t credit the ancient Maya calendar for predicting it, say experts on … Continue reading
The Guardian Reviews 2011
The news in 2011 was being recognised as exceptional long before the year began to draw to a close. Our interactive reviews 2011 as a whole but also captures running stories that defined the year from the Arab spring to the … Continue reading
Posted in Basic News
Leave a comment
Overcoming Climatology
Meteorologist Jeff Masters’ discussion of atmospheric circulation, global warming, and climate modelling in the context of a massive weather disaster, the recurrent East African drought, seems to me to be moving towards the kind of interdisciplinary thinking needed to grapple … Continue reading
Environmental Alarm Grows in Urban China
An incipient environmental awareness is increasingly emerging among the urban middle-class in China, but the almost apocalyptic scale of the pollution must be discouraging to activists, to say the least: The statement posted online along with a photograph of central … Continue reading
‘Real’ Philosophy
It’s amazing how often that term is thrown like a brick at one’s head. As a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin some 30 years ago (could it really have been that long?) I was drummed out … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Democratizing Science
Senior Fellow Steve Fuller publishes a new piece in Logos & Episteme: The question in the title is addressed in three parts. First, I associate the democratisation of science with the rise of ‗Protscience‘ (i.e. ‗Protestant Science‘), which pertains to the long-term … Continue reading
Non-Traditional Path for Non-Traditional Students
The Finish@UT program, which launched last week, is a selection of UT-System-approved online courses aimed primarily at students between ages 25 and 35 who have already amassed credits toward an undergraduate degree. “Particularly those students who have had various life … Continue reading
Frodeman & Briggle Reblogged at Becoming Integral
Thanks to our alum Sam Mickey for reblogging this new piece. Much appreciated! What is becoming of philosophy in the 21st century? There’s a great piece on that topic that just came out in the Chronicle of Higher Education Review. It … Continue reading
Marginal Tax Rates the last 100 years:
Numbers that few seem to know….
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
What Is College For?
A new piece in The Stone, the NY Times philosophy blog, raises questions about the value of college: Most American college students are wrapping up yet another semester this week. For many of them, and their families, the past months … Continue reading
Posted in Future of the University
Leave a comment
Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist
Think Twitter is just some newfangled contraption? Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went viral | The Economist.
Stolorow: Losing & Regaining My Sense of Being
This is a very moving piece by Dr. Stolorow. I find within it a warmth of humanity that sparks memories in my ownmost being of when I lost my great friend, my beloved mentor, Richard Owsley. Not long after he … Continue reading
Posted in Public Philosophizing
1 Comment
Note from an Underground Humanist
I wonder what Mr. Irion would think of Frodeman & Briggles’ new piece in the Chronicle? I sit in my last class. It’s a class about Toni Morrison. It’s a survey course, so we have covered all of her books. … Continue reading
Chinese “wolf dad” writes “Beat Them Into Peking University,” trumps American tiger mom
This warped version of accountability gives the expression ‘raised by wolves’ a bad name. Chinese “wolf dad” writes “Beat Them Into Peking University,” trumps American tiger mom.
Correlation or Causation?
With the right graph, you can imply anything… Correlation or Causation? – Businessweek
Posted in Metrics
Leave a comment
Philosophers Put Their Minds to Expanding Their Role in Public Affairs – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Yet another article on philosophers making an impact! Nice to see Michael O’Rourke (Idaho), Nancy Tuana (Penn State), Andrew Light (George Mason), and Paul Thompson and Kyle Powys Whyte (Michigan State) all quoted in the article. Martha Nussbaum, on the … Continue reading