Physicist at Large

America doesn't have a problem with political correctness.  America's tribes have a problem with political correctness. You can sa...

I think the nostalgia for the Good Factory Jobs is as much about the anxieties of A Certain Professional Class as it is about the anxieties ...

I have a casual interest in linguistics--I enjoy browsing an Indo-European dictionary  and occasionally tweet about what I learn .  I thus c...

In my previous post I blogged about how there's no real mystery to academic achievement, how my teachers told me I'd be on my own i...

I went to a decent high school.  Not fancy, not lousy.  Science labs were OK but we weren't putting out national science fair competitor...

Among the problems that I find most fascinating and most frustrating is the that of people who want to systematize education and incentives....

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 ...