Saturday, September 26, 2015

The inclusiveness of the 1700's

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The next section of Hofstadter's documentary history of American higher education deals with the movement toward non-denominational inst...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

“Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.”

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I've been arguing with some people over whether it's worth spending effort on revising a mission statement.  I maintain that most or...
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Tidbits on higher ed in colonial America

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I've mostly just skimmed the primary documents in Hofstadter's book so far.  A few observations: In a history of Harvard written ...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Next Book: American Higher Education--A Documentary History by Richard Hofstadter

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I liked Anti-Intellectualism in American Life so much that I figured I should read some more Hofstadter, so I will. I'm going to plunge...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Galileo! Galileo! Galileo now no more!

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I'm partway through Day 2 (mostly on relative motion) and bored.  Time to read some sci-fi.  Then I'll start blogging serious stuff ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Galileo, Day 1: OK, now it gets good.

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On page 63 things get interesting.  Salviati has spent a few pages talking about sun spots.  The purpose of this was that after dozens of pa...

Galileo on Aristotle

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I am a third of the way through the first of the four dialogues.  It consists largely of showing how cumbersome and inconsistent Aristotelia...