Monthly Archives: June 2012

Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Michele Kerr is a second-career teacher with a master’s in education from Stanford University, with credentials in math, history, and English. She will start her fourth year of teaching…

Well, now that I will have my course in Evolutionary Psychology, I keep updating myself on all sorts of interesting stuff. Stephen Pinker recently weighed in on the group selection thing (boy, that whole thing is either a “get the … Continue reading →

This is neat.  From Drunks and Lamppost.  A (huge) graph of philosophers and who they have influenced. Something I must show my philosophy of science students this fall (oh, I only play at philosophy, though I follow some cool ones.  … Continue reading →

Meanwhile, there is another researcher who has resigned based on iffy research practices.  Uri Simonsohn has an algorithm (yet to be published) that finds suspect data.  Ed Yong writes about it here.  The practice here is more….grey (although over the … Continue reading →

Alex Tabarrok linked in one of the standard color illusions, and made this comment: If it is this easy to be mistaken about simple things it must be much easier to be mistaken about difficult things. From Geekolinks. To some … Continue reading →

How to make biomorph.  An Alife app

This blog (Scholarly Open access) looks interesting.  Written by a librarian with an interest in – well.  Take a wild guess.   I figure it is a bit of a jungle out there, with open access journals, and not all … Continue reading →

This is Cool.  I want!

Not at all what this blog is about, but I must pay tribute.  Ray Bradbury died today.  91, which is highly respectable.  But, he is one author that has followed me from trying to read his Martian Chronicles at 12 … Continue reading →