Physicist at Large
Personal blog for Alex Small, a young and cranky traditionalist physics professor.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Myths about learning styles and digital natives
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Inside Higher Ed has a nice essay on the helplessness of students , the most extreme example being a student who emailed a professor to ask ...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
One more thing from the Deresiewicz essay
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I forgot to quote this part: I had a third student, a junior, who wrote about a friend whom she had known since the beginning of college a...
Make a whole new religion, a falling star that you cannot live without
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William Deresiewicz just published a nice essay on political correctness . It is longer than it needed to be, but it still has plenty of goo...
Sunday, March 5, 2017
How narratives are formed
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One should always take it with a grain of salt when CEOs complain about skill shortages (maybe they'd get more skilled people if they o...
Saturday, February 18, 2017
A fun little argument in relativity
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Confession: I know next to nothing about general relativity. My graduate work was in materials and optics. My current research is mostly ...
Monday, February 13, 2017
Next Book: Edward Teller's Memoirs
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I haven't been blogging books lately, for a lot of reasons, but I'm determined to get back to it. Right now I'm reading Edward ...
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Public schools have charters too
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With the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education there is now much discussion of charter schools and school choice. I have no...
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