As folks at Geek Feminism put it so well, science is not the oppressor. That doesn’t mean that science can’t…
On a slightly more light-hearted topic, this seems like a great overview of how to do academic networking. Basically, it’s…
From the Times, a surprisingly good overview of what’s going on in this area. When people talk to me about…
Just saw this Times piece on Truvada, which can protect people (gay men, in this particular study) from contracting AIDS.…
This morning, the boy sent me this post about what works for political campaigns. I don’t know where the information is coming from,…
In the shower this morning, my top-of-the-mind problem was how to design a mathematical model to express my ideas about…
Over the last few days, I’ve been thinking a lot about Paul Graham’s essay, The Top Idea in Your Mind.…
In Stanley Fish’s post on plagiarism, he argues that plagiarism is not a “big moral deal” – a phrase I’m…
Over the last two months I’ve been working intensely on my dissertation. If you’re wondering whether this relates to my…
I just read “In Praise of Tough Criticism” over on the Chronicle. I almost didn’t make it more than two…