Physicist at Large

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

Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Federalist No. 1

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An interesting point from Federalist No. 1: An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the off...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Next book: The Federalist Papers.

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My next book will be the Federalist Papers.  I'm reading this edition , because I like to read things on paper, but you can get them for...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Yet more acronyms for the same old pedestal: STEMM and HACD

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Via this article in Science , I see that we now have two new acronyms:  STEMM (just like STEM, but the second M stands for Medicine) and HAC...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Article on Assessment

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I have an article at Inside Higher Ed titled "Some Questions for Assessophiles."   The comments are not entirely favorable, as you...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

On fluff

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I like this John Warner piece at Inside Higher Ed : I read these edu-inspirations, and think about the ways concepts like learning styles,...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Next book: Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa

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My next book is Notes on the Death of Culture:  Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario Vargas Llosa. It's a book about the ascendance...
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Monday, May 21, 2018

Give it to me baby! Uh huh! Uh huh!

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I don't have the time right now to process this deeply, but I loved this quote from a Chronicle article about "Design Thinking...
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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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