Physicist at Large

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

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Amen, I say unto you, the edufad hucksters will always be among you

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Not much time to say anything substantive about it, but I appreciate this article on the self-esteem fad of the eighties and nineties . It ...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Political correctness flatters the elite

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I am too tired to comment on this, but I very much enjoyed this National Review article (did I really just type that?) about class, politic...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Don't fall for the hype

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Yesterday I attended another university's graduation ceremony, for a friend's son.  While walking across the campus I passed by this...
Thursday, June 8, 2017

Authority and character vs. process and markets

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Working in a non-profit setting with a union and a tenure system, you learn certain things about character and its importance, largely becau...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

The two cultures on display: Gender studies

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In the past few weeks two articles from gender studies have gotten some attention.  The first was not actually from gender studies as such,...
Monday, June 5, 2017

A few links: There must be some way out of here

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I'm still trying to work up a post on Dewey, but Dewey is a heavy read and finishing up the academic year is absorbing all of my mental ...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Finally, some sanity on privilege, college, and jobs

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I'm not predisposed to agree with a professor of work-life law about, well, anything.  However, Joan Williams has a great article in th...
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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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