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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Bubblenomics: Shale Gas Edition
It is quite likely that shale gas is being oversold as a revolutionary energy source, based on industry data and internal emails uncovered by muckraking New York Times journalist Ian Urbina. In the e-mails, energy executives, industry lawyers, state geologists … Continue reading
Which will go first: the ocean or fossil fuels?
The latest ocean news: scientists are gearing up for the next few decades of continued decline in marine populations, the extinction of shallow-water coral reefs, and major perturbations in current physical and chemical stabilizing systems. The first ever interdisciplinary, international … Continue reading
Nozik & Anarchy
Why the philosophical father of libertarianism gave up on the movement he inspired. – By Stephen Metcalf – Slate Magazine. Very good overview article of the progression from Nozik’s encouragement of what would become Neo-LIbertarianism to his discouragement. Also does … Continue reading
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Adventuresome Education… not quite
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/06/19/time_to_kill_liberal_arts I am not quite sure why it is the liberal arts that always get the focus. From the studies I have seen and the people I know, a person with a liberal arts degree is not any less likely … Continue reading
NSF issues new merit review criteria
At http://nsf.gov/nsb/publications/2011/06_mrtf.jsp. We are writing a Science Progress post on it this weekend.
Posted in Interdisciplinarity, NSF, Peer Review
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Utrecht–International Network for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity
Blogging from Utrecht–day 2 of our meeting, to see if we should form a network of networks in ID and TD. Right now, I am dubious. The group breaks up into folks who do ID/TD research, versus those who do … Continue reading
Branding Logos
So everybody seems pretty familiar with logos these days. In fact, product branding has made some logos more recognizable to children than the faces of their grandparents. But I want to talk about the oldest of all logos… the ancient … Continue reading
Posted in New Lexicon, Public Philosophizing
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Coburn puts NSF ‘under the microscope’
US Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) recently released a report that takes issue with some NSF practices — including funding the social sciences. David Bruggeman has an interesting discussion of the report here.
Posted in Accountability, Metrics, NSF, STEM Policy
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