This will be my last blog post. At least, my last for some time. For I have bought a Mega Millions lottery ticket, whose face value is reportedly $540 million United States […]
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Beavering Away Will be engaged busily this week; posts may become sporadic, confused, nonsensical. More then usually, I mean. Now is the chance to send in a Guest Post (200 ~ 800 […]
Are My Classes Too Hard?
My exams are scheduled for this Thursday and Friday and suddenly—quite, quite suddenly—my office hours are filled with activity. In a hurry today. Perhaps you, my dear readers, can help me. I […]
Scientists Too Sure Of Themselves: Except, Of Course, Climatologists And Neuroscientists
Since most of us are ill inclined to labor until Monday next, I don’t want to post anything of momentous importance until then—accepting, as we must, that all that appears in this […]
Predictions For 2011: Submit Yours Today!
Since everybody remembers what Yogi Berra said about this hoary subject, we can skip it. Still, we can’t help but wonder with Calvin, where are all the rocket ships we were […]
Hope in academia? Too many kids in school? And much more!
Hope in academia? Thanks again to Dennis Dutton’s Arts & Letters Daily for the link to Graphs on the death of Marxism, postmodernism, and other stupid academic fads. The author, named “agnostic”, […]
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