I’ve been getting behind in keeping up with the news. We’ll run through this quickly:
I am joining the boycott of New Scientist
I don’t feel quite so bad about the budget cuts at W&M now that I’ve heard UF Gainsville is cutting its entire Geology Department
And we also haven’t been reduced to putting advertisements on our [...]
Remember that excellent article on how to spot a religious agenda by Amanda Gefter that I wrote about? NS has pulled it off their website because:
New Scientist has received a legal complaint about the contents of this story. At the advice of our lawyer it has temporarily been removed while we investigate. Apologies for any [...]
NS just put out an article by Amanda Gefter on red flags for spotting hidden religious agendas in “scientific” arguments. I’ve dealt with every single one of these, so it was nice to see someone else put it in print. To summarize Gefter’s excellent opinion piece:
You may be dealing with a hidden religious agenda if [...]
These sound a lot like stuff I’ve written:
Consider: While scientists may be resurgent in Washington, their world as a whole remains distant and bizarre to most Americans. Only 18 percent of us know a scientist personally, according to a 2005 survey (subscription required), and when asked in 2007 to name scientific “role models,” the results [...]
It’s three in the morning (not exactly 4 am, but the metaphor holds true here). I should be working on graduate applications (due in two days), but I can’t focus. I passed out this afternoon before I could make a second pot of coffee and ended up napping for about 8 hours (my roommate must [...]
It’s 1:30 in the morning, and I am making apple pie.
In other news, we are getting kind of an interesting gender*condition interaction in the study. By gender*condition interaction, I mean that the males in the study are giving us no effect at all, and in some cases a small change opposite our hypothesized direction. There [...]