Physicist at Large

Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Shove it up your pipeline

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I know that I should treat this report on preparing students for non-academic careers as a good thing, because it involves academic physici...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Gritty reality

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I just came across this article from May arguing that grit research is over-hyped.  Essentially, the claims are that (1) the effect of grit...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

The Post-Literate Society

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Today an administrator sent out a request that faculty fill out a survey as part of some study involving educational fads.  Since I love to ...
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Alternative is back in style, so I said "What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?"

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The editors of Nature deign to notice reality : Alternative career paths should be celebrated, not seen as a compromise. Do go on. ...b...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Niches vs. Competition

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I was talking to a student, and I was articulating some of the points that I make on this blog, concerning the folly of trying to send every...

SF story accepted

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I forgot to blog this, but last weekend one of my stories was posted at 365 Tomorrows , a daily blog for flash-fiction sci-fi stories.
Thursday, September 29, 2016

The false ecumenicalism of STEAM

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There's an editorial that I half-agree with in the latest issue of Scientific American , and like many things that get at half of an is...
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Alex Small
Pomona, CA, United States
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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