I admit, I had lost track of the state of supercollider research. (Don’t we all, from time to time?) So I was happy to spot this article from Reuters about the progress in Europe towards getting the next generation of collider online by the end of the year. A 2000-ton magnet was lowered into a […]
I’ve added an education category to the site. Given how much time I’m spending on the topic, I figure it’s about time. There will continue to be some crossover with philosophy, but this section will be more about the nuts and bolts of teaching.
I did a brief “microlesson” presentation in one of my education classes […]
A bunch of threads are colliding against each other in my head right now. Reuters is reporting on a new poll that shows a majority of Americans want a timeline to withdraw troops from Iraq. In the meantime, there have been numerous reports about the Congressional Democrats’ problems coalescing behind any particular proposal to try […]
Got a new chair. Still getting used to it, so no deep thoughts tonight.
In the meantime, here’s a YouTube clip of Neil Finn playing the song “Silent House,” which he cowrote with the Dixie Chicks. The song is apparently on the upcoming Finn/Crowded House album. There’s a compare and contrast for you.
Minimal posting and computer activity tonight, because when I pulled my chair back from desk to sit down, the back of the thing fell right off. So I’m gonna have to go to an office supply store and get a new, relatively cheap chair that I can start to destroy, all the while dreaming of […]
Pennsylvania is going to hold hearings about moving its primary up to Feb. 5, along with, oh, roughly every other state. On the one hand, I would certainly love to have the chance to actually vote in a contested presidential primary. On the other hand, this is the sort of thing that makes people say […]
I did a lot of writing today, so I’m a bit tapped out. Fortunately, I think one thing I wrote is worth sharing. I had to write up a response to Pennsylvania’s academic standards for civics and government in grades 1-12. SHort version: I wasn’t too impressed. Want the long version? See below.
My initial response […]
My brain is not working at all at the moment, but allow me to point you to this web page, where Denny O’Neill - who wrote the socially conscious Green Lantern/Green Arrow stories Robn mentioned a while back - responds to the Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics, which I still think is my favorite thing […]
Once upon a time, as I was trying to figure out the whole being-a-grownup thing, I spent a fair amount of time reading about investing and the financial markets. I particularly enjoyed the message boards at the Motley Fool website, which were a very interesting mix. The Amazon forum in particular was a fascinating conversation […]
Not News launched right before the 2000 election, and so it should not be too much of a surprise that we spent a lot of time in our forums in November and December talking about what do about the voting system. And at the time, I was a proponent of using electronic voting machines, ideally […]