The future of the PhD
Nature has a special feature on the future of the PhD. Mark Taylor, professor of religion at Columbia, has some especially strong words: Universities face growi...
Month: April 2011
Ideas are overrated
Light blogging week this week. But check out Farhad Manjoo, who insists that Mark Zuckerberg, not anyone else, invented Facebook and deserves the credit. I̵...
The Chinese (and Indians) are taking over!
Here’s David Rothkopf at Foreign Policy parroting the standard (and careless) meme that there is a simple, straightforward link between scientific product...
Public literacy and self-awareness
Via Chris Mooney and The Bubble Chamber, here’s sociologist Barry Glassner calling for more public literacy among scientists: Scientists and their advocat...
On astrology and demarcation
I’ve been very busy applying to jobs and figuring out my life, so I’ll just leave you with a few posts all related to astrology. I meant to link to ...