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It has been over 25 years since I applied to graduate school, and it has been over 5 years since I have read graduate school applications, so I was happy to see that Sean Carroll has posted a nice entry over at Cosmic Variance on how to get into graduate school in physics and/or [...]
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I made the mistake of sending an email from my personal email account to my boss. Now Outlook keeps suggesting that email address to her when she sends me email. She has caught it most of the time, but sometimes in a rush she forgets.
I have had the same problem myself, but I never bothered [...]
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They were two articles on the opinion page yesterday that caught my attention. The first was by David Broder on a congressional proposal to improve the country’s performance in math and science. Recent reports have shown a disturbing decline in scientific research and the training of scientists and engineers.
They all recite similar warning signs [...]
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I can’t seem to get away from Bill O’Reilly’s war on the people who he thinks are fighting a war on Christmas. Of course, I never watch O’Reilly so I was not aware of this until all media decided to tell me about it. Apparently, retailers say “Happy Holidays” rather than Merry Christmas, and O’Reilly [...]
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Over at Cosmic Variance, Sean writes about an interesting biology course taught at Central Washington University. Instead of just talking about facts that scientists have learned. The class tries to address what science is and how it is conducted. As part of this strategy, intelligent design and the problems with treating inteligent design as [...]
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OK. I did find something to read on the NY Times website. This article discusses the intelligent design (ID) movement and concludes that it is running into trouble. While ID’s supporters claim that the science will determine their ultimate success or failure.
“The future of intelligent design, as far as I’m concerned, has very little to [...]
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