Category: aa sociology of information

Some rambling thoughts on a fascinating set of articles about measuring teaching. Today’s NYT carried two stories — on on page 1 — about new

Readers, Have been swamped with teaching and administrative work of late, and trying to spend two days a week at the Center for Advanced Study

At a liberal arts college with which I am familiar, the administration recently distributed “syllabus guidelines” with 34 items for inclusion on course syllabi. Faculty

In a letter to the NYT about an article on radiation overdoses, George Lantos writes: My stroke neurologists and I have decided that if treatment

Conference at Berkeley this weekend on changing the way we think about scientific knowledge http://opensciencesummit.com. From the conference website Open Science Summit 2010: Updating the

David Pogue has a nice little piece called “Why We Make Home Videos” on the NYT website. It’s basically a personal tale in defense of