All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

A Report Card for President Bush’s Science Policies:
Earlier this week Democrats on the House Science Committee issued a “report card” on President Bush’s and the Republican-controlled Congress’ science policies. Not surprisingly, the Democrats give the President a “D.” A passing grade, but not by much. Here is…———

i’d fail them personally…. because they fail to let science provide independent results and ignore results that don’t agree with their ideological position. there is no way this can pass.

T-Shirt Hell
:: Wrap
:: IT’S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS:
http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?productid=259
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they also have more infamous papers.

Police Tasered truant girl, 12:
http://www.infowars.net/Pages/Nov_04/131104_tasers.html

Nelson said he fired ”for my safety along with [the girl's] safety.” He could not be reached for comment.

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to me… this is exemplary of the profound lack of critical judgment in american society.

http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-11/p48.html

Scientific research, like other cooperative endeavors, requires trust to flourish. The distinguished philosopher Annette Baier explains that trust is confident reliance.1 Both elements, confidence and reliance, are vital.

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In this article, I address only ethical questions about upholding values that contribute to defining good science. But a second category of ethical questions also exists: questions about the consequences of scientific work. When a funding agency asks that grant proposals address the ethical and societal ramifications of the scientific work being proposed, the agency is raising matters of this second type.

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The number of graduate students per faculty research supervisor has grown dramatically in some fields, which raises serious questions about the quality of research supervision and mentoring for those students. The lack of faculty supervision is further complicated by the presence of postdocs in some fields: Sometimes postdocs are the primary recipients of faculty supervision, which leaves graduate students to depend on supervision by relatively inexperienced postdocs.

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If the pleasure in doing research erodes, only the scarce external rewards will remain as incentives. Competition will become ever more cutthroat as the fear of detection becomes the only check on cutting corners in pursuit of those external rewards.

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very interesting article…. it is from physics today… i don’t really agree with the analysis of the socio-historic situation… it seems to be pure nostalgia to me, because i think the discipline in the 50’s that you find at ford, ibm, big labs and universities and the like arose out of the disciplining of men and women in the wars, not in the trust in small communities…..

More by Mark Osborne:
http://www.gethappy.com/watchmore.html

Mac OS X Power Tools:
http://homepage.mac.com/frakes/MOSXPT/content/software.html

handy….. handier….. handiest….

Internet Research Tracings: Towards Non-Reductionist Methodology – Lincoln Dahlberg, JCMC:

Internet research has become a “field” in its own right in the social sciences, already boasting a number of peer-reviewed journals, a plethora of book titles, and an international association that draws hundreds of researchers from across the globe t——

Lincoln write us up…….

Individual Profs and teaching with the Web:

Outside of courseware packages there are the bloggers/wikis/post nukers’ and probably a few others. Here’s a quick list of the profs I know/watch/read who use social software as teaching tools:

Jason Nolan

Alex Halavais

Ron Deibert

Likely many others can be identified through Alex’s list of ScholarsWhoblog What I think is an essential issue to chosing your teaching spaces is just how much interactivity you want/need the students to have. Will they be doing reflective journaling online? Do you want them to comment on each other’s work? Will they need to do online collaboration? Are you students living in the same dorm together or are they spread out over a large metropolis area and unlikely to meet f2f? Taking all this into account, I keep coming back again & again to blogging and wikis. Is it just because that’s all I know, or is it because it works over and over?

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this must be only the set that she knows in person.

Axis of Eve:

http://www.axisofeve.org/

i suppose that this is one way to approach the problem presented by the current administration….

www.ioaw.org:
http://www.ioaw.org/

save the librarians…….!