Sunday, November 19, 2017

A great one has departed, and the system will resist any who try to fill her shoes

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Today my wife and I went to a memorial for Dean Joan Schaefer , an old mentor of mine.  By the time I was in college Dean Joan was formally ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

NYT gonna NYT

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This article in the NYT a few weeks ago started off so promising, skewering many of the "STEM Shortage" narratives.  But then the...
Monday, October 9, 2017

The purest distillation of the modern zeitgeist

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Not much time, but I must memorialize this post by Kevin Drum : Hillary Clinton describing her typical day in What Happened: Six a.m.: I ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

A Eulogy For My Mother

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I don't normally use this blog for such personal stuff, but I want a place to keep this, where it's easy to share.  So here's th...
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Monday, September 11, 2017

Statistics and Standardized Tests

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I have posted a paper on the arXiv (a website for physics articles) addressing statistical issues in interpreting standardized tests.  This...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

They were normal by the lights of their society

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There's been much discussion of this picture of Auschwitz guards, taking some time off from their busy schedule of extermination to enjo...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

All of this has happened before and will happen again

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Since one of the themes of this blog is that all of this has happened before and will happen again, I present this amazing cartoon: