I’ve always thought of some of what academics do as “playing at” being of a higher social class than we are. Major field-wide conferences [cough]NCA![/cough]are held at hotels so expensive that they decimate university travel budgets. Groups of academics routinely go out to meals at these events that they can’t really afford. Broke job candidates …
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1. It appears that the U.S. government is either too cheap to hire proofreaders or simply can’t spell. 2. Like our building itself, our street’s been under construction for awhile. There are “no parking” signs up and down the street, though people tend to ignore them on the weekends since nobody’s doing construction on the …
I arrived in Berlin having never spent any time in Germany apart from what must add up to a few days in the Frankfurt Airport (sorry “Flughafen”) and knowing almost no German. Here are some incredibly pedestrian insights resulting from that set of circumstances. 1. From outside the U-Bahn, it sounds just like the Washington …
I don’t keep blog stats. I’m sure it would be no thing to install sitemeter but then I’d have Feral Mom’s problem with it (scroll down to #10). The less I know about my readership, the better. But I do get questions. Last night at dinner a friend asked me how many people read my …
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf06319/chap1.cfm Seems kind of interesting. — Sorry things are so quiet on this end. It’s been a lot of evaluating and recommending this week, punctuated by some nice social events and an interesting talk. More anon.
I’ve got pictures once they’re developed for a Berlin story. I always forget the digital camera and then wind up buying those silly ones with the bluejeans prints. I wrote to Sage after that last IP post and it appears that they’re listening. We’ll see what comes of it. Back to the email pileup.
Here’s an article about a surprising test by sociologist of science Harry Collins. Sure enough, experts can’t tell his answers from real physicists’ on a test about gravity. I’m not sure where this is going, but I think it proves just about as much as The Original Sokal Affair did. It proves with some skill …
