Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.
Current Reading
This blog is primarily for me to blog my responses to books that I'm reading. Sometimes I blog about other stuff too, though.
Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Next book: The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
My next book will be The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker. He talks about human nature, its biological contributors, and why people deny it. Since human ability is a constant concern of educators, this should be well worth reading.
I'm an associate professor of physics at Cal Poly Pomona. My research interests are mostly in biomedical applications of optics (especially theoretical limits to superresolution, and also light scattering calculations), with some side interests in percolation theory.
I am using this blog to chronicle my responses to books that I'm reading, particularly books about higher education issues. It's a way to work out issues in my mind.
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