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Category Archives: Multidisciplinarity
How Higgs owes his Nobel to an editor and a biologist | Science News
In his talk, describing the events that led to the prediction of his boson, he provided an enlightening case study about how science really works. As with so many good ideas in science, Higgs had trouble getting his paper published. … Continue reading
On Reinventing the Wheel of Interdisciplinarity
Perhaps! But who wishes to concern himself with such dangerous “Perhapses”! … Continue reading
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56 Indicators of Impact
In 2011, several core members of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID) at the University of North Texas held a meeting during which we imagined different ways to indicate the impact of our activities. We scribbled them on … Continue reading
INIT Interdisciplines virtual seminar on transdisciplinarity
Welcome to the INIT series on Interdisciplines: INIT, the International Network of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity, is continuing to host a Virtual Seminar on Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Horizons on the platform Interdisciplines. We invite everyone to participate in a new forum … Continue reading
Questioning the Wisdom of Crowds
Has there been an uncritical rush towards teamwork in the workplace? What are the consequences? In the course of this essay about the value of retaining individual autonomy in the workplace, open-plan office space and even the sacred cow of … Continue reading
Re-thinking Rigor, version 2.0.1.2
An interesting overview at an education blog critiquing the amount of time spent spinning pedagogical PR rather than thinking through a sustainable PAIDEIA. What I want is for every American child, every British child, Canadian child, Irish child, Australian child, … Continue reading
Don’t Let What You Know Limit What You Imagine | LinkedIn
A thought-provoking blog from Bill Taylor about a book written by Cynthia Barton Rabe. In her underappreciated book, The Innovation Killer, Cynthia Barton Rabe, a former innovation strategist at Intel, explains how “what we know limits what we can imagine.” … Continue reading
Even experts need help sometimes
Michael O’Rourke, lead investigator on the Toolbox Project out of the University of Idaho, recently discussed his work with Graham Hubbs, also from UI, on the blog Philosophy TV, where two philosophers video chat on issues ranging from modern epistemology … Continue reading
Mesa Verde, Interdisciplinarity: Endpoints… Process…
Update on a previous post by Steve Wolverton The Mesa Verde team has now persisted through many months, and these blog posts represent initial products of our experiment to tell the stories of our experiences in the field through the … Continue reading
Citizens Voice Opinions on Gas Drilling in Denton | North Texas Daily
About 75 Denton residents attended a public meeting to voice their opinions and concerns about gas drilling in front of the newly formed Citizens Task Force for gas well regulations. The Drilling Advisory Group (DAG) is partly the brainchild of … Continue reading
Hiding on-going enclosures behind buzzwords
Big Buzzword on Campus: Is “Convergence” a Revolution in Science or Simply Jargon?: Scientific American. Scientific American editors are right to ask if the hot new term “convergence” is just more jargon for the academy or an actual new Zeitgeist, … Continue reading
Taylor’s Crisis on Campus
Along with most of my colleagues here at the CSID, I’m re-reading Crisis on Campus in anticipation of Prof. Taylor’s upcoming visit. In the opening pages, he presented an anecdote in which a student told him about the difficulty she … Continue reading
Multidisciplinary Ethics Conference
September 7-8, 2011: University of Bristol To Receive is Never Neutral: A multi-disciplinary workshop towards an Ethics of Reception This workshop will re-address the diverse responses, receptions, and rejections of ethical theorising to “Classical” narratives, here and now.