If you're short of time, and know about the past---which as of last week is now historical---failures of higher education, skip When It Was It Bad and jump right to…

I changed the title to put TWID = The Week In Doom at the end. I did this long ago, too, and found it answered. Hilarity Ensues Students, by definition,…

One of my Inside-The-Academic-Beast contacts told me recently that the new crop of professors hired at a major well known university were unimaginative, nice and, most damning of all, boring.…

A committee of the US Senate scanned all the grants doled out by the National Science Foundation over about three years, and discovered (with my emphasis) "3,483 grants, more than…

Let's suppose a group of men formed a brotherhood. Suppose this group is exclusive and entirely extra-governmental, a group with no or only tacit official support. Suppose the men fund…

Shocking report in science money news came out last week. Seems "Six fossil fuel companies funneled more than $700m in research funding to 27 universities in the US from 2010…

This classic post originally ran 25 July 2014. I have corrected the text where my enemies inserted errors. The original title said "global warming", as it used to be known,…

One lesson I've worked hard at imparting is that scientists, being generally of slightly above average intelligence, and sometimes more, excel at finding evidence which supports their beliefs. But that…