English Syntax and Buffaloing
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Been quite taken by the last episode of Les années lumière, Radio-Canada’s scientific radio show. Made me think about scientists as human beings. Of course, there are several anthropologists working...
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As a creative generalist, I don’t tend to emphasize expert status too much, but I do see advantages in complementarity between people who act in different spheres of social life. As we say in French,...
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LibriVox founder and Montreal geek Hugh McGuire recently posted a blog entry in which he gave a series of nine arguments for academics to blog: Why Academics Should Blog Hugh’s post reminded me of one...
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Will at Work Learning: People remember 10%, 20%…Oh Really?. This post was mentioned on the mailing-list for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE-L). In that post, Will...
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When I came out against privilege, over a month ago, I wasn’t thinking about libraries. But, last week, while running some errands at three local libraries (within an hour), I got to think about...
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Kept brewing and thinking about brewing, after that last post. Been meaning to discuss my approach to “brewing bugs”: the yeast and bacteria strains which are involved in some of my beers. So, it’s a...
View ArticleAcademics and Their Publics
Misunderstood by Raffi Asdourian Academics are misunderstood. Almost by definition. Pretty much any academic eventually feels that s/he is misunderstood. Misunderstandings about some core notions in...
View ArticleEnergized by Bret Victor
Just watched Bret Victor’s powerful video: Inventing on Principle | CUSEC Simply put, watching it was a lifechanging moment, for me. In some ways, Victor’s talk was deeply philosophical, though it’s...
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