Physicist at Large

I have been reading fiction lately, and the themes of this blog are much more suited to discussing non-fiction than fiction (unless we count...

I'm looking at a bunch of things I read a few years ago.  Here's a fascinating infographic from the Brookings Institution : I don...

This is a fascinating survey of hype over educational technology.  Naturally, though, I must remind the reader that this time it's diff...

Prompted by a post by Gene Callahan's recent post , I have thought more about Galileo's thought experiment concerning the two balls ...

A few years ago the Obama administration announced that it was going to put out a "college scorecard" showing data that would help...

Eric Hoffer is arguing that the defining spirit of Western societies since the Industrial Revolution has been an emphasis on administering t...

An aphorism from the section titled "The Ordeal of Change": Though the reformer is seen as a champion of change, he actually look...