Physicist at Large

I've read about half of the Havel book so far, including the famous essay "The Power of the Powerless."  I'm linking a .pd...

The Federalist Papers were tedious.  I read the first 30 in detail, then skimmed the next 30, then read about the Electoral College and then...

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

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...

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...

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

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